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May 11, 1994, 9:41:01 AM5/11/94

Info-Mac Digest Wed, 11 May 94 Volume 12 : Issue 72

Today's Topics:

[*] 16-bit Coke textures
[*] 16 bit Trek & cat textures
[*] 3C Timer 1.11; a scientific timer
[*] 8-bit Coke 50's sign textures
[*] 8-bit Coke inverse textures
[*] CEToolbox 1.7.2
[*] csmp-digest-v3-025
[*] DEMOS 2.6; Lumina's Decision Modeling System
[*] DiskDup+ - new version 2.5; disk copying utility
[*] Electric Filed Kinks, QT movie
[*] Evocation 1.0 demo; an adventure game
[*] GLMStat 1.1.1; a statistical program
[*] Greg's Browser 2.2 (PowerPC); a browser for files
[*] Greg's Browser 2.2; a file interface
[*] High School Slide Shows (Persuasion presentations)
[*] High School Slide Shows (Persuasion presentations, last set)
[*] High School Student work File 2 (Persuasion presentations)
[*] Home & School Mac 12/93; an electronic magazine
[*] Keys! 1.0b2; add command keys to dialog items
[*] LetterGothic-EGG_Rel; a font (PS and Type 1 versions)
[*] Missions of the Starship Reliant; a game
[*] ProIcon 1.0; a FileMaker Pro P Icon Manager
[*] QuickEditor 2.1; a QuickTime editor
[*] RunTime 1.2; monitors total power-on time
[*] Screen Refresher 1.0.1; forces the screen to redraw
[*] Sounds Helper 1.1; plays sounds in the background
[*] Star Trek NCC-1701-E jpeg picture
[*] Symbionts 2.4; an extension that monitors the startup process
[*] Symbionts 2.4 patch; monitors the startup process
[*] syndicate-demo; a game
[*] teletimes-94-05; an electronic magazine
[*] TidBITS#225/09-May-94
[*] Trist; a board game
[*] xmover; copies resources from one file to another
(A) Apple PowerCD with 610DOS
[Q] My Mac plus is broken down. HELP!
[R] PowerMac 6100 no FPU? also crashing...
ABATON SCANNER SOFTWARE/HARDWARE REQ'D.
Adapter for Sony 17" monitor
AppleTalk/TCP tunnel using PortConnector
A problem with Eudora sending mail
Best of both worlds (R)
Can Excel Speak to me? (R)
CLARIS 1.0v3 XTND SYSTEM PBLM
ClarisWorks outlines in text (long)
Close View Substitute (Q)
csmp digest archives
Database question
Display Enabler Freezes
DOS in Mac (reply)
FREE THE SDKs
HELP! "code overflow" error in Think C
look for ...
Macs in the woodshop
MacWorld DC
MS Office look & feel
Offline Mail Reader (A)
PC-simm can be used as Mac RAM? (A)
PlainTalk Easter Egg (on PowerMacintosh 7100/AV)
PowerMac 6100/60 FPU // MacTCP/MacSLIP crashes [SUMMARY]
printing on a UNIX machine?
Problem HP DW 5.0 Driver and DW C
product icons
Programming question
Radius card follow-up
RAM Doubler blocks extensions (update)
Remapping Caps Lock to Control on PowerBooks: Truly Impossible?
Small System 7.1 (R)
Small system 7.1? (R)
Sys Software Update 3.0
TIGR converter (Q)
Write-Through Extension
Zoom Help Needed

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 01:26:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: 2d Lt Avram Dorfman <ador...@cs.tufts.edu>
Subject: [*] 16-bit Coke textures

These are taken from the food version of the Coke Lyric Logo ad, as well
as the original. The ones from the original are 16 bit versions of some
of the nicer textures from the two 8-bit files I created.

All are for use with Desktop Textures.

-Avram Dorfman (ador...@cs.tufts.edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/coke-textures-16bit.hqx; 649K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 02:03:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: 2d Lt Avram Dorfman <ador...@cs.tufts.edu>
Subject: [*] 16 bit Trek & cat textures

3 textures for use with Desktop Textures (available at Sumex): One of the
Enterprise (D) riding off into the Sunset (from "A fistful of Datas"),
and 2 of cats.

No, they have nothing to do with each other, except that I put them in
the same file.

-Avram Dorfman (ador...@cs.tufts.edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/avrams-textures-grp1.hqx; 77K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 10:15:30 -0400
From: "Tzuen-Rong Tzeng" <ttz...@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Subject: [*] 3C Timer 1.11; a scientific timer

Please find enclosed a copy of 3-Channel Timer 1.11 .sea.hqx. This is an
bug-fix to previous version 1.1. The TimeStamp script was located in the wrong
layer, sorry. Please delete version 1.1 from you archive.

Thanks again!

Jeremy

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/three-channel-timer-111.hqx; 368K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 01:20:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: 2d Lt Avram Dorfman <ador...@cs.tufts.edu>
Subject: [*] 8-bit Coke 50's sign textures

These are textures from the Coca-Cola Lyric Logo TV advertisement. These
ones all have the 1950's Coke sign on various patterns.

For use with Desktop Textures (freeware, at sumex).

-Avram Dorfman (ador...@cs.tufts.edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/fifties-coke-sign-textures.hqx; 654K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 01:24:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: 2d Lt Avram Dorfman <ador...@cs.tufts.edu>
Subject: [*] 8-bit Coke inverse textures

These are taken from the Lyric Logo TV ad. They are all patterns with the
Coke logo made out of inverse/photo-negatives of the background pattern.

-Avram Dorfman (ador...@cs.tufts.edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/inverse-coke-textures.hqx; 559K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 11:47:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter J Roberts <prob...@world.std.com>
Subject: [*] CEToolbox 1.7.2

Enclosed is the latest version of CEToolbox exactly as downloaded from a
umich mirror site.

>From: ki...@rockvax.ROCKEFELLER.EDU
>To: mi...@Mac.archive.umich.edu
>Subject: uploading CEToolbox 2nd attempt
>Date: Tue, 08 Mar 94 19:58:03 EST

>This is CEToolbox 1.7.2 downloaded from the CE Software forum of AOL.
>No restrictions were placed on it so I assume it is for general consumption
>I hope this time it arrives in one piece.
>Simon

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ce-toolbox-172.hqx; 62K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 15:22:41 MET DST
From: pot...@clipper.ens.fr (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-025

C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 10 May 94 Volume 3 : Issue 25

Today's Topics:

CodeWarrior GOLD DR-2 - Can't seem to generate fast FP code
Determining if user is on a network
Sample Think C AE Code
WANTED: Good programming FONT!!
drawing arrowheads
writing an INIT... a few questions

The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
(pot...@clipper.ens.fr).

[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-025.txt; 68K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 20:26:25 -0700
From: Brian Sterling <ster...@lumina.com>
Subject: [*] DEMOS 2.6; Lumina's Decision Modeling System

This file contains a demonstration version and supporting
information for DEMOS (TM), v. 2.6, by Lumina Decision Systems.

DEMOS (TM) (Decision Modeling System) is a Macintosh-based,
visual environment for creating, analyzing and communicating
probabilistic models for business, risk and decision analysis.
Standard modeling tools, such as spreadsheets and simulation
languages, often hinder insight generation and communication.
DEMOS is designed specifically to provide insights to quantitative
models, as quickly and effectively as possible. DEMOS has been
used for risk analysis, decision analysis, technology assessment,
economic analysis and strategic planning. It has been used in
industry, consulting companies, government agencies, research
laboratories, and universities, on five continents.

Key features of DEMOS include:

* Hierarchical influence diagrams, enabling you to create and
communicate model structure visually, with nodes and arrows, at
multiple levels of detail
* Multidimensional spreadsheet views, and graphs, using Smart
Arrays (TM), letting you work with and manipulate data easily
* Integrated documentation, including an object-oriented system of
nodes, attributes and hypertext links
* Intuitive, extensible, modeling language, providing many built-in
functions
* Uncertainty analysis, providing discrete and continuous
uncertainty, and efficient Latin hypercube and Monte Carlo
simulation
* Dynamic simulation for process and time-based modeling
* Ability to create end-user applications, permitting you to build a
model for a generic problem of interest to a class of end users,
including facilities for using HyperCard interactively and
AppleEvent support.

DEMOS is under continuing development, and is currently
marketed directly by Lumina Decision Systems, Inc., through an
Early Adopter program. Over 50 major corporations, government
organizations and consulting firms worldwide are participating.

Please contact sup...@lumina.com with questions or comments.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/demos-26-demo.hqx; 985K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 13:07:50 +0200
From: cbu...@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: [*] DiskDup+ - new version 2.5; disk copying utility

This is version 2.5 of Roger Bates' Disk duplication program.
Supports "disk image" files, mounts images and copies disks.
Now also prints disk labels. This replaces all previous
versions.

Shareware.

BinHexed CompactPro (1.34) archive.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-dup-plus-25.hqx; 54K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 17:28:27 GMT +1
From: Edoardo Milotti <MIL...@DFISTS.TS.INFN.IT>
Subject: [*] Electric Filed Kinks, QT movie

Short quicktime movies that show the kinks in the electric field of an
accelerating charge (see the paper by Tessman and Finnell, Am.J.Phys.
35, pp523-527 (1967)

Edoardo Milotti, Dipartimento di Fisica,
Universita' di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, I-34127 Trieste
email: MIL...@DFISTS.TS.INFN.IT

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/electric-field-kinks-qt.hqx; 151K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 14:57:01 -0500
From: sim...@di.unito.it (Fabrizio Oddone)
Subject: [*] Evocation 1.0 demo; an adventure game

Evocation is a highly interactive adventure based on a surprising technique
of direct action between the player and the scenario.

Simple and intuitive, Evocation does not require the use of the keyboard.

The images, made using Computer Graphic techniques combined with
traditional drawing, are supported by impressive digital effects and stereo
sound-track that accompanies you through the entire course of the game.

CHARACTERISTICS:

* GRAPHICS: over 30 graphic screens at a resolution of 510x275
* OBJECTS: more than 300 objects that assure maximum interactivity with the
various enviroments.
* TEXT: original scripts and texts written in multi-language with the
function of simultaneous translation.
* MUSIC: Impressive 4-channel stereophonic sound-track.
* SOUNDS: all sound effects sampled at 22 khz for high quality sound.

the Author: Albert Cobre
Fax: +39.49.9422099
AppleLink: ITA0784

[Archived as /info-mac/game/evocation-demo.hqx; 1573K]

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Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 17:25:10 +1000
From: Me <CG...@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: [*] GLMStat 1.1.1; a statistical program

GLMStat is a statistical program for analysing generalised linear models.
It provides a macintosh interface but otherwise operates in a similar
fashion to GLIM but with less features (most of which you probably won't
miss). Features of GLMStat are
- spreadsheet style data entry
- Normal, Poisson, Binomial and Gamma models with appropriate links and
specification of convergence parameters
- Scatter and Residual plots
- Output of deviance, parameter estimates, residuals and parameter
correlations
- Saving of data files complete with all model specifications.
- printing of data, graph and results.
- Online Help (under the apple menu) unfortunately there is currently no
other documentation.
- includes example data files for most examples in two of the texts.

The programme is shareware. Further details in "read me" file.
Unregistered copies are initially fully functional but after 31st
August 1994 the Calculate and Transform commands are disabled and there is
a short delay after each FIT operation with a reminder that
the programme is unregistered.

This version of GLMStat (1.1.1) has the following change
- Fixed bug which caused windows to occaisonly disappear when
zoomed and incorrect window size to be stored (you may
have to delete the preferences file (either in System Folder
or in Preferences folder within system folder) to fix the
problem)

Ken Beath
cg...@cc.newcastle.edu.au

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/glm-stat-111.hqx; 226K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 19:12:16 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Greg Landweber <g...@maths.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: [*] Greg's Browser 2.2 (PowerPC); a browser for files

This is a PowerPC native version intended for use on Power Macs only.
There is a separate 680x0 version for those of us with enervated Macs.

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.

Version 2.2 adds more Finder-like features: you can now create new
folders, edit file names, and change file labels. You can also make
files visible or invisible via the new "Label" menu.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-browser-22-ppc.hqx; 110K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 19:11:13 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Greg Landweber <g...@maths.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: [*] Greg's Browser 2.2; a file interface

Greg's Browser requires System 7 and Color QuickDraw. This version is
intended for 680x0-based Macs, although it will work in emulation on
Power Macs. There is a separate PowerPC native version.

Version 2.2 adds more Finder-like features: you can now create new
folders, edit file names, and change file labels. You can also make
files visible or invisible via the new "Label" menu.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-browser-22-68k.hqx; 98K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 15:43:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Karen Bates <kba...@tenet.edu>
Subject: [*] High School Slide Shows (Persuasion presentations)

Additional high school slide shows (Aldus Persuasion Player) to complete
the set.

Hollye Knox-Green
hol...@tenet.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/hs-presentations-persuasion-3.hqx; 452K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 15:44:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Karen Bates <kba...@tenet.edu>
Subject: [*] High School Slide Shows (Persuasion presentations, last set)

Additional high school slide shows (Aldus Persuasion Player) to complete
the set.

Hollye Knox-Green
hol...@tenet.edu

(final set)

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/hs-presentations-persuasion-4.hqx; 408K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 11:55:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: Hollye Knox-Green <hol...@tenet.edu>
Subject: [*] High School Student work File 2 (Persuasion presentations)

this is the second submission of high school student Persuasion slide shows

Thanks,

hollye

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/hs-presentations-persuasion-2.hqx; 609K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 10:23:20 -0400
From: Ken Hancock <ke...@vgi.com>
Subject: [*] Home & School Mac 12/93; an electronic magazine

The December 1993 Issue of the Home & School Mac newsletter. Includes
reviews of "It's A Bird's Life" CD-ROM, Firefall Arcade, Star Trek:
25th Anniversary, and Common Ground.

Part of the December 1993 Home & School Mac collection.
StuffIt 3.0 archive.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/hsmac/home-and-school-mac-93-12.hqx; 584K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 04:39:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From: s...@contrib.de (Stefan Kurth)
Subject: [*] Keys! 1.0b2; add command keys to dialog items

This is a bug-fix release of "Keys!". It fixes a bug that caused small
blocks of memory to be allocated and never released, thus slowly filling
up the respective application's heap. Thanks to Francois Pottier for
tracking down this bug.

"Keys!" is a control panel that adds command key shortcuts to dialog
items in modal dialog boxes (buttons, radio buttons, and check boxes).
It underlines a letter (generally the first one, as far as possible)
of the name of each button or check box; if you hold down the
command key and type that letter, it will be as if you had clicked
on the button.

See the enclosed readme file for more information.

Best regards,

-Stefan (s...@contrib.de)

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/keys-10b2.hqx; 16K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 11:18:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <tin...@services.dese.state.mo.us>
Subject: [*] LetterGothic-EGG_Rel; a font (PS and Type 1 versions)

Subject: Freeware version of Letter Gothic monospaced font

This Plain (Roman) version of the classic font Letter Gothic, a *freeware*
incarnation called "LetterGothic-EGG," is intended to serve one purpose:
To print text, such as from online sessions, that originally has been
created on fixed-pitch (monospaced), Elite (12 characters per inch)
platforms or devices, such as many Unix, IBM or Atari computers; and have
the resulting output look more or less as though it had been produced on
an IBM Selectric(R) typewriter. Period.

[Archived as /info-mac/font/letter-gothic-egg.hqx; 109K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 22:50:41 +0500
From: jfol...@wabama.com (Jon Folkers)
Subject: [*] Missions of the Starship Reliant; a game

This is an arcade adventure game that bears some resemblance to "STTNG:Rescue"
and "NetTrek," but has a personality all its own, complete with strategy and
action aplenty.

Shareware fee ($15) gets you additional missions, support. Enjoy!

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/mission-of-reliant.hqx; 1121K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 03:28:42 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Aapo Puskala <a...@clinet.fi>
Subject: [*] ProIcon 1.0; a FileMaker Pro P Icon Manager

ProIcon(c)v1.0 % FileMaker Pro P Icon Manager
Copyright: Mikko J Haikala (1994)

Sys. Req : FileMaker Pro 2.X
Greys or Colors recommended

ProIcon is a sort of FMP developement tool. I do a lot of FMP developement
and needed tool that would help me manage my various buttons. Before
ProIcon, my buttons were in ResEdit files, Paint files etc. Now I can
access them from FMP. I hope that You find this application useful.

Application is totally free, so don't hesitate to pass it on to Your
friends or to nearest BBS. I only have two wishes:
% Allways include this ReadMe file with ProIcon when You pass it on.
% If possible, send me buttons that You have made (in ProIcon "format").
Please include Your contact information so I can send You new versions if I
come up with any... Also send any comments and ideas that You might have.

Special thanks to:
% Trond W Madsen from AddOn/Norway of his original Icon Manager - idea.
(And thanks also that You "failed" to send me Your version in time so I had
to make my own...)
% Jeff Gage - the creator of very impressive CONTACTS -application. It has
been BIG inspiration for me. (I hope You are not p....d that I borrowed
Your Icons? They are the best icons that i've ever seen!)

Here is my contact information:
Mikko J Haikala
Tietovayla Oy (Claris distributor in Finland)
P.O. Box 4
00211 HELSINKI, FINLAND
Tel. +358 (9)0 682 1644
Fax. +358 (9)0 678 780
AppleLink: SF0004, SF0005
Internet: Mikko_J....@fimug.fi

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fmpro-pro-icon-10.hqx; 64K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 17:41:18 +0200
From: sicmu <si...@medsun.unige.ch>
Subject: [*] QuickEditor 2.1; a QuickTime editor

QuickEditor is a simple application that allows you to fully and easily edit
QuickTime movies.
Some of its unique features are:
-Very simple user interface (if you know how to use a VCR, you'll know how to
use QuickEditor).
-Sound track editing (Place any sound you want anywhere in the movie).
-Sound track mixing, including the ability to re-mix an existing sound track
-Very cheap price. The program is ShareWare 10$. If you just do movie editing
it
is free, if you wanna use the sound-editing options and be able to save your
sound-edited movie you'll have to be a registered user.

Mathias Tschopp
13 Troupe
CH-1253 Vandoeuvres
Geneva/Switzerland
Fax:(41-22) 348.33.28

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/quick-editor-21.hqx; 115K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 10:20:25 +0200
From: Patrick Stadelmann <Patrick.S...@etudiants.unine.ch>
Subject: [*] RunTime 1.2; monitors total power-on time

Hi !

This is RunTime, a little app that gives you the total power-on
time of your Macintosh. Tested under System 6.07 and System 7.1
on the following Macs : ci, fx, vx, Quadra 700.
Also tested on a PowerMacintosh 8100... and it works !!!

Macintosh models prior to the IIci don't remember how long they've
been running, so RunTime is useless on theses machines.

RunTime is is free and can be distributed freely.

New in version 1.2 : RunTime can now run in background.
Window is now moveable.
Display gets updated when the PRAM counter
is incremented.
Window position and preferred view are saved.

Send comments, bug reports, suggestions...
to Patrick.S...@etudiants.unine.ch

Patrick

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/run-time-12.hqx; 20K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 15:35:49 -0400
From: Rober...@potsdam.edu (Robert C. Best III)
Subject: [*] Screen Refresher 1.0.1; forces the screen to redraw

Refreshed does one thing... It redraws everything on the screen.

Why? What for?
Have ever had your screen not get redrawn, usually after a recoverable
crash, had some application change the colors on your monitor or just
some fluke or bug in the application your were using at the time?

Well, with "Refresher", all you have to do is press Command + Shift + 4,
and whoa-la, everything on the screen is redrawn, and windows refreshed!

Try it out!
Included with this handy dandy screen refresher is also a screen
messer-up'er! This program upon double-clicking on it, will mess up your
screen much like what I described above, but only worse! A copy of
Refresher is included "inside" of screen messer-up'er so you can try out
Refresher BEFORE you install it into your system.

Version 1.0.1 of Refresh now refreshes the cursor also and adds a stand
alone application version of the Refesher Fkey (Refesher App) by of
requests by users.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/screen-refresher-101.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 15:03:35 +0300
From: ole...@aedi.insa-lyon.fr
Subject: [*] Sounds Helper 1.1; plays sounds in the background

It allows to play sounds in background, and several sounds at the same
time. You can also record sounds as long as you want. (A more detailed
description is included in the attached file.)

Thanks very much.

olivier lebra ole...@aedi.insa-lyon.fr
SoundsHelper 1.1
) 1994, olivier lebra

e-mail :
W until June 1994 : ole...@aedi.insa-lyon.fr
W From Sept. 1994 : ole...@cs.concordia.ca
(I will spend a year in Canada !!!)

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sounds-helper-11.hqx; 133K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 23:37:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: 2d Lt Avram Dorfman <ador...@cs.tufts.edu>
Subject: [*] Star Trek NCC-1701-E jpeg picture

I found this as a gif on one of the Star Trek newsgroups. It is
supposedly a picture of the next enterprise, the ncc-1701-e. I heard a
rumor that the ship to be in the next trek series (ST:Voyager) would be
numbered ncc-1701-f, so this may not be it. I jpegged it to make it ultra
small.

This file is a binhex'd self-extracting archive. You need a program that
can read JPEG (.jpg) files to view this. You can use JPEGView, which is
available at sumex, in grf/util/jpeg-view-321.hqx. I believe it is freeware.

I have seen no indication that this picture is copyrighted or even
created by Paramount, so you are on your own to decide what to do with
it. I am merely relaying it from the newsgroup.

-Avram Dorfman (ador...@cs.tufts.edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/star-trek-ncc1701e-jpeg.hqx; 44K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 19:59:29 -0400
From: ke...@hardman.pdial.interpath.net (B. Kevin Hardman)
Subject: [*] Symbionts 2.4; an extension that monitors the startup process

Symbionts is an extension that monitors the startup process. Symbionts
displays the name and number of bytes of memory each system extension
allocates from the system heap. The name and number appear beneath the
extension's icon, and since the name is usually truncated, Symbionts also
displays it in the menu bar. Symbionts even shows the icons for those
extensions that don't normally reveal themselves.

Symbionts Control is a control panel that sets the preferences for the
Symbionts extension. It also allows the review of the information
collected by the Symbionts extension. Additionally, the control panel is
used to manage the loading of system extensions without having to dig
around in the System folder. Extensions can be enabled and disabled simply
by double-clicking on the extension icon and name.

Version 2.4

- Added view by large and small icons for those people who want more, but
less.
- Added shareware notice and shareware registration and registration printing.
- Fonts panel now shows memory usage and other information for font files.
- Several speed improvements to List Manager processing. Especially sorting.
- Fixed incompatibility with System 7.1.1 (Pro). The PowerTalk Extension
plays strange games with traps during startup which occassionly would cause
problems during startup.
- Added a new check item to enable and disable the display of an
extension's memory usage below each icon during startup.
- Added support for option clicking an extension icon. When an extension
icon is option clicked it will ask the Finder to open and select the item
in a standard Finder window.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/symbionts-24.hqx; 114K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 20:01:07 -0400
From: ke...@hardman.pdial.interpath.net (B. Kevin Hardman)
Subject: [*] Symbionts 2.4 patch; monitors the startup process

Version 2.4

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/symbionts-24-updt.hqx; 78K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 19:03:22 -0700
From: Jeffrey Sandor Hegedus <eae...@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: [*] syndicate-demo; a game

Bullfrog's futuristic vision of capitalism gone awry is coming to the Mac.

This is a demo of EA's upcoming Syndicate Macintosh. It includes only

one playable mission, but unfortunately none the fantastic animation

sequences of its PC parent. Guess we'll just have to wait for the release.

Kudos Electronic Arts!!!

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/syndicate-demo.hqx; 957K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 12:01:31 PDT
From: edi...@teletimes.com (Ian Wojtowicz)
Subject: [*] teletimes-94-05; an electronic magazine

Hello, and welcome to yet another fine issue of International Teletimes. My
name is Ian, and I'll be your editor this evening. May I recommend
something to start you off? Why not begin with our special this month,
*Favourite Authors*. We have a lengthy review of a new book by Camille
Paglia, entitled *Sex, Art, and American Culture*, served with a side order
of "Canadian Authors" and assorted "Book Reviews by Alexander Varty". If
you enjoy that, I recommend that you then try some of our fine Arts &
Entertainment writing by Ken Eisner. You may choose between various movie
and music reviews of all kinds, or try his specialty: "Mama Africa Comes
Home." If you're feeling particularly hungry for knowledge, you may even
choose consume it all!

Do we have any good wine you ask? But of course! You can sample some of our
fine "BC Wines" with the expert guidance of Tom Davis, our own wine
specialist. Finally, for dessert, we have some succulent Peaches Chambord.
If you really like the dessert, the recipe is available in this month's
Cuisine column.

Bon apptit.

Ian Wojtowicz
Editor/Publisher

A-hem! Don't forget the tip...

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tele/teletimes-94-05.hqx; 1177K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 21:05:03 PDT
From: a...@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#225/09-May-94

TidBITS#225/09-May-94

The issue offers a look at the results of an Ingram Labs test of
Power Macs versus Pentiums, a brief review of the PowerSwitch LT,
and an analysis of why SyQuest drives may suffer head crashes.
Adam and Bill announce their Internet Explorer Kit - a non-
technical book that shows what life is like on the Internet, and
we conclude with Nick Arnett's thoughtful comparison of the 15th
century printing revolution in Europe and the Internet of today.

Topics:
MailBITS/09-May-94
Power Macintosh Trounces Pentium PCs
Internet Explorer Kit for Macintosh
SyQuest Reliability Problems
PowerSwitch LT: Controlling Power Via LocalTalk
Mendicant Sysops in Cyberspace
Reviews/09-May-94

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-225.etx; 30K]

--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- a...@tidbits.com -- in...@tidbits.com
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- ti...@tidbits.com

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Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 12:00:37 CDT
From: Tom Gooding <tgoo...@iastate.edu>
Subject: [*] Trist; a board game

Trist is a 2 player board game in which you move stones around a board and
try to land on a square with either 2 or 3 stones in it, thus capturing the
stones and scoring points. Play against another person or your computers. Up
to 8 levels of difficulty!

A $5 shareware fee is requested.

Tom Gooding
tgoo...@iastate.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/trist.hqx; 167K]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 09:23 +1200
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
<L...@waikato.ac.nz>
Subject: [*] xmover; copies resources from one file to another

XMover is a utility that allows easy drag-and-drop copying of resources from
one file to another. It does automatic renumbering, so you don't have to worry
about resource ID clashes. Shareware.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
l...@waikato.ac.nz

[Archived as /info-mac/card/xmover.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 13:46:49 PDT
From: Mark Mehall <mme...@metheus.com>
Subject: (A) Apple PowerCD with 610DOS

mme...@metheus.com writes:
>Has anyone been able to get the PowerCD to read a DOS or Windows
>CD through the DOS card? Under DOS, I get the error message:
>"CD103: CDROM Not High Sierra or ISO-9600 format." With Windows,
>I get "There is no disk in drive E:" message. Any ideas? Many thanks!

Here is an update: Apple tech. support (1-800-SOS-APPLE) says that this
is a known problem with the 610DOS and the PowerCD. The Apple CD driver
for DOS only works with the Sony CD ROM drive. There is no workaround
or schedule for a fix for the PowerCD.

-Mark

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Date: Wed, 11 May 94 08:32:44 +0200
From: a.c.va...@et.tudelft.nl (Andre' C. van der Ham)
Subject: [Q] My Mac plus is broken down. HELP!

Dear Netters,

Last Monday when I started my Mac Plus, all I got was a checker-board
screen (like only the video system is working, but the rams are empty). I
checked the voltages on the floppy connector and all the supplies were
there.

Please help me if you can (my Mac is down ...), I would hate to have to
turn my Mac into a Macquarium.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Andre' van der Ham.
E-mail: a.c.va...@et.tudelft.nl

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 09:41:43 -0500
From: vi...@spss.com (Vinko Tsui (312) 329-3455)
Subject: [R] PowerMac 6100 no FPU? also crashing...

Can anyone help me with this? I thought the PPC601 had a built-in FPU,
but when I've tried to run stuff that requires an FPU (including
CHAOS Continuum), it crashes with a ``could not find FPU'' or something
like that.

Also, I get occasional hangs, often while using Mosaic 1.03 (with MacSLIP &
MacTCP), but sometimes when I'm just starting up MSWord5.1. Any similar
experiences? Any ideas (I don't _think_ it's an extension--most of mine
are ones that come with the system)?

Joe,

The PPC601 does not have a built-in FPU that's why any application that
looks for a FPU will crash or complains. The reason that the PPC's do not
have a FPU is because they can do the work of a 68K FPU much much faster.

-- Vinko

Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Vin...@eworld.com

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 11:14:15 -0400
From: bah...@ecf.toronto.edu (BAHRAMI KAMRAN)
Subject: ABATON SCANNER SOFTWARE/HARDWARE REQ'D.

I am currently in possession of an Abaton 300/GS grey scale
scanner with the MAC interface and software kit. I am trying to
acquire the IBM interface and software kit so that I may use the
CORELTrace software. The company has gone out of business and there
currently is no support available.
If anyone has one of these kits "lying" around or some
information as to what I should do (without having to buy a new
scanner) please e-mail me.
Your help is appreciated.

Kam (bah...@ecf.toronto.edu)

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Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 13:59:18 -0600
From: Laryn Brown <LA...@WordPerfect.com>
Subject: Adapter for Sony 17" monitor

I need information about which adapter I should order from Sony for a CPD-1730
17" monitor that I want to hook to a 6100/60 PowerMac. Sony keeps faxing me
spec
sheets with no mention of PowerMacintosh anywhere.

LA...@WordPerfect.com

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 09:59:13 CST
From: "Lewis Anderson" <ANDE...@mdh-envh.health.state.mn.us>
Subject: AppleTalk/TCP tunnel using PortConnector

Has anyone had success in establishing an AppleTalk tunnel over
the internet using AppleTalk Remote Access, PortConnector (demo
available at sumex), the Direct Link ARA script (available at sumex),
and a TCP CTB Tool? I've tried with a couple different TCP CTB
tools but can never seem to form a link.

Is there a tool that someone can recommend?
Any suggestions on how to make it work?

Thanks!

Lewis Anderson
lewis.a...@health.state.mn.us

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Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 22:00:25 -0500
From: "YONGMING SUN (317)267-9953" <ICR...@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU>
Subject: A problem with Eudora sending mail

I recently downloaded Eudora 1.4.2, and figured out to dial up to may Vax
account. It works fine to read mails. However, I could not send mail.

The problem is when I send mail, Eudora complains that:
There has been a error transfering you mail, I said: RSET
and then the SMTP server said:
500 unknown command specified
Sorry

After further investigation, I found that after Eudora issued a command
telnet indyvax.iupui.edu 25 (which is my SMTP server)
it sent some information about terminal type to my server, and my server
replied
that it is not a valid terminal type. If I manually logon to my SMTP server
from
my vax account and send a mail without giving a terminal type, it's fine
So what the sequences of command strings the Eudora send out? What can I
manipulate with Resedit?

Any suggestion is welcome?

Yongming Sun

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 14:47:22 CDT
From: Rob Shaw <sh...@Ext.Missouri.edu>
Subject: Best of both worlds (R)

Text item: Text_1

Allan Hunter asked about hardware that would run both 680X0 and native
PowerMac while expressing an affection for the SE/30 or Classic box.
This might be pretty thin vapor but when the Power Mac was
demonstrated here a few weeks ago the Apple rep indicated that Apple
plans to _eventually_ provide PowerPC upgrades for the Classic on up.
The logic boards would possess the yet to be mass produced 603
processor.
Robert Shaw sh...@ext.missouri.edu

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 19:21:30 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <JFRITZ%WVNVM....@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Can Excel Speak to me? (R)

Andy Law <andy...@afrc.ac.uk> said

AL> Is there an add-in for excel that will speak my data back to me so
AL> I can do error checking without anyone else being involved.

The answer is yes. Maybe not in the King's English, but ...

ExcelTalk by John Blackburne can do the trick. From the read me:

JB> ExcelTalk is an Excel Add-In that adds the basic capabilities of
JB> Apple's Speech Manager to MicroSoft Excel 4.

It is somewhere on Sumex-aim.

Jeffrey Fritz
jfr...@wvnvm.wvnet.edu
West Virginia University

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 16:21:06 -0700
From: GLEN_...@macbbs.com (GLEN Warner)
Subject: CLARIS 1.0v3 XTND SYSTEM PBLM

Greetings.

I am the proud owner of a 2-year-old Performa "I'll-get-the-CD-later"
600, and I have a problem with my ClarisWorks 1.0v3 XTND System.

For some reason, my ClarisWorks word processor no longer will allow me
to open documents created in different word processor types, nor 'Save
As' anything but Claris. A little snooping around all the ClarisWorks
application files I have floating around on the hard drive revealed a
generic icon in the file named "Claris XTND System" in the System
folder tucked inside the "Claris" folder. I've tried several different
things, including:

(1) rebuilding the desktop (no effect)
(2) re-installing the original software (pretty tough when you
have a
Performa, and the only disks you get are the "Disk Tools" disk ...
but I
did back up my hard drive - ! Alas ... no luck).
(3) call technical support. (Called them twice. The first person
suggested
sending in $10.00 for the original disks, while the second one
offered to
send them for free; I quickly accepted.) The new disks were no
help,
however.
(4) Called tech. support again, they sent out another set of
disks, and
suggested it might be an extension problem. Killed off my
extensions, and
the Claris XTND System icon went back to normal ... that time.

Now I have the same problem, and killing off my extensions is NOT
helping! What to do (yes, I did try all of the above, except calling
technical support)??

Please send any and all replies to me at my e-mail address:
GLEN_...@macbbs.com

I will post the results as I have difficulty getting Info-Mac
(*sigh*).

Thanks!

--gdw

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 10:07:48 PDT
From: jbt...@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo)
Subject: ClarisWorks outlines in text (long)

A few imdigests ago I asked how I could mix outlines and paragraphs in
ClarisWorks. Many folks responded, and I'd like to thank them all:

Dan Hofferth <ie...@agt.gmeds.com>
Don Shupe <dsh...@cwu.edu>
Bailey Ford <ford...@dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu>
John-Paul Durrieu <j...@ergon.wimsey.com>
Doug <bal...@brastias.cs.geneseo.edu>
Richard Kunert <rku...@facstaff.wisc.edu>
Alf <alfa...@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
Robert Shaw <sh...@ext.missouri.edu>

(My apologies if I inadvertently missed anyone.)

To recall and clarify, what I'd like to do is to use CW's outliner
instead of tabs to create lists within stuff I write. That is, I'll be
writing a bunch of stuff and will, at some points, want to create short
itemised lists. But instead of using tabs to create the lists, I'd like to
use the outliner. While I can do this quite easily in FullWrite, I apparently
cannot do this in CW. However, several folks offered various workarounds for
putting paragraphs within an outline (which is not quite what I'd like). I
think these workarounds might prove useful, so I'm repeating them here.

> [In the outliner] Use Level 1 and choose None for the marker. Make whatever
> font and size you wish and make your outline start at level 2 (don't need to
> indent it)

> Type the outline in outline view as you normally would.
> Option-Click-Drag a box where you would like to place your text.
> This will create a box in which you can use all of the normal
> word processing functions. The only inconvenience that I run into
> is that this text box lacks a ruler - which I use to set tabs and such.
> To get around this little problem, I create a new wordprocessing doc,
> set up the margins, and use Command-Shift-C and Command-Shift-V to cut
> and paste the formatting from the blank dummy document into the text
> box that you created.

> Option-Drag a text frame, then put that frame in outline view. The rest
> of your document will stay in normal text mode.
>
> The frame is "floating" over the text by default. To insert the frame in the
> the main text, select it (click in it and press <enter> to see the frame
> handles), then cut it; click in the text, then paste. You'll have to double-
> click or control-click into that frame if you need to modify its text.

> You can't turn off outlining for a section, but you can change outline
> styles for each section; you can set Topic Label to None or create a custom
> style without labels or indenting and apply it to the section you don't
> want outlined.

> when you start an outline, or in the middle of one, press tab+shift+return
> to skip or insert spaces between points. then open a small graphic wiw in the
> space. Inside the window, open another text window. Then resize the graphics
> window and choose none for it's border. It blends right into the
> outline and looks pretty good.

> if it were me what I would first open a new _draw_ document. Then I would go
> to the tool bar and access the text too and open a text window and type-in or
> copy-in my text. Then I would open a second text window and try to convert it
> to the outliner view. (If this can't be done from one of the menus then I'd
> look for a short-cut button that would do the job.)

I hope these suggestions help someone. And, again, many thanks to all
who took the time to respond to my query.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616-8633
Internet: <j...@math.ucdavis.edu> or <jbt...@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 15:40:52 -700 (MDT)
From: "Matthew D. Maddox" <m...@us.dynix.com>
Subject: Close View Substitute (Q)

Does anybody know of a product similar to Close View that allows you to
zoom in on the screen image? Close view is fine, except if you type
anything, the screen shifts with each character and the whole screen moves
when you move the cursor. I would like to find a utility that allows you
to lock the screen position.

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 19:58:53 -0700
From: whi...@cs.ucsd.edu (Whitney Cunha)
Subject: csmp digest archives

I am trying to find the archives for volumes 1 & 2 of csmp.digest (I can
only seem to find volume 3 in the places where I knew to look like here,
dartmouth, uoregon, etc).

Do you have any idea where i could find these? Any help is appreciated?

Thanks!
WHitney

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 17:42:55 EST
From: Btroen <BTR...@UV1.IM.MED.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Database question

Hello netters:

I would like to import some data into FileMaker or Excel.
Unfortunately the data is not in a friendly format. It is separated by spaces
only. There are NO carriage returns or linefeeds (this "lines up" because my
margins make it so).

Here is a sample:

phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein 1 7 0.42 0.44
calcium-activated neutral protease (small subunit) 1 4 0.12 0.22
transcription factor ISFG-3, interferon alpha-indu 1 6 0.52 0.11
colligin 1 2 0.03 0.88
H2AZ histone 1 6 0.10 0.04

As you can see, there is a variable space between the name and the next
number.
However, the subsequent spacing between the numbers is uniform. Is there a way
for my to convert this to a tab delimited file so that I can import it into a
database program?

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Bruce Troen

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 13:27:23 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <JFRITZ%WVNVM....@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Display Enabler Freezes

I've used the Display Enabler on a Quadra 840av and a 700. Both
machines freeze when the desktop starts to come up unless the
Display Enable is removed.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
jfr...@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 12:04:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <tin...@services.dese.state.mo.us>
Subject: DOS in Mac (reply)

> Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 19:03:23 -0600
> From: Pete Chane <pcha...@vms2.macc.wisc.edu>
> Subject: DOS in Mac

> Any owners of the Apple 610 DOS Mac/card or the OrangePC 486 cards wish to
> fill me in on their systems? Do you like the cards, compatibility, speed,
> etc.

Pete, there was a fairly complete treatment of this subject in an
Info-Mac issued within the past two or three weeks (I don't have the
number, though).

One thing to add to this: A friend's Quadra 610 will run an advanced
telecommunications program (external Supra Fax/modem) that causes SoftPC
Professional to choke on a Mac IIci and a IIfx. This is pretty demanding
stuff, and the 610 seems to do fine with it.

WinDoze programs, including the Terminal, also seem to run OK.

Traci J. Ingram

tin...@services.dese.state.mo.us | or | 101-...@MCIMail.com

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 15:56:28 +0100
From: sim...@di.unito.it (Fabrizio Oddone)
Subject: FREE THE SDKs

I absolutely agree with the statements by jbe...@teleport.com (James D. Berry)
in the InfoMac digest #70.

> GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY -- Here's what I want:
>
> All SDKs, System Versions, System Extensions, and DocViewer copies of
> associated documentation on Developer CD Series. If I want paper, I'll pay
> extra. Or print it.
>
> SO WHY AM I BITCHING?
>
> I've supported Apple for a long time. I've been writing commercial
> Macintosh Software since 1984. In 1984 Apple did everything it could to
> encourage development on the Mac. 1994 is like 1984 in that this is a hard
> sell. 1994 is not like 1984 in that Apple is doing less to support
> developers. Let's make 1994 more like 1984. (Sorry:-) I WANT THE MAC TO
> SUCCEED, AND TO TRAMPLE WINDOWS. But on a recent project (Houdini) I took a
> trip to the dark side. And discovered some truths. APPLE CAN DO BETTER IN
> SUPPORTING DEVELOPERS. Go ahead, make my day. Make it easier for me to make
> the Macintosh shine.

The same for me, except that I started in 1986.

> Here's what you can do:
>
> 1. Keep this thread alive.
> 2. Include your own comments.
> 3. Send a copy of this letter, or your own thoughts, to someone influential
> at Apple. Include "Free the SDKs" in the title.
> 4. (anyone care to append a list of key people at apple?).

1. Done.
2. Maybe next time.
3. Influential people at Apple: do send me your e-mail address, please!
4. See 3.

--
Fabrizio Oddone
sim...@di.unito.it

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 10:43:04 +0100
From: al...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (Alex Knight)
Subject: HELP! "code overflow" error in Think C

Hi all,

I apologise in advance for what is probably a really stupid question. But I
am foxed and hoping some of you kind souls out there can help.

I am trying to compile a program using Think C 5.0.3 on a Quadra 660AV
(though I have had the same problem on a IIcx) and I keep getting the "code
overflow" error message. The manual says "You have more than 32K of code or
data in one file. Break your file up into smaller files." Trouble is, the
whole program is less than 17K, and I get the message with the code in one,
or in multiple, source files. So I figure I must be doing something
*really* stupid. Any hints, suggestions, ideas?

Please email me and I'll summarise any useful answers.
TIA!
Alex
al...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 14:46:12 CET
From: ro...@kl.unibe.ch
Subject: look for ...

Hello everybody

We are two guys from the teacher school of Biel in Switzerland. In religion we
are working in groups on different themes, and we both have choosen the topic
"psycological damage of wear-veterans", if there are some damage. We looked for
literature and films... about this topics, but didn't find anything at all. If
you know something about this topic, if you have some material, or even better,
if you had an experience write us. If you send us some material, you can be
sure, that it will be read by us only. Names aren't interessting for us.

Our adresses:

E-mail: ro...@kl.unibe.ch

"normal mail":

Staatliches Seminar Biel, z.Hd. B.Berger + M.K
ffer (2c), Scheibenweg 45,
CH-2503 Biel, Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 14:48:03 -0500
From: ba...@harpo.aaec.com
Subject: Macs in the woodshop

I'm looking for a calculator (DA or app) that does fraction-based math as
used in woodworking. The version included with Calculator Construction Set
is a kludge. Even basic operations would be fine. Any help? Respond
directly please.

Thanks,
Paul Baim

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 16:34:09 EDT
From: "Christopher B. Hopkins (Wesley)" <HOP...@american.edu>
Subject: MacWorld DC

I just came from the MacWorld Expo here in Washington, DC. Has anyone
gone yet? How is it compared to the "bigger" Macworlds in Boston and
CA???

IMHO, I thought this was a big yawn-fest. Some good cheap buys, a
handful of free pens, and a couple of interesting booths but generally...
I certainly didn't learn anything.

I'm interested to hear from others... at this point, I don't think its
worth it to travel to Boston in August if it's the same showing...

Christopher

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 15:55:53 +0100
From: sim...@di.unito.it (Fabrizio Oddone)
Subject: MS Office look & feel

Jerry Tangren <GSW$E...@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU> writes in Info-Mac Digest #70:
> an announcement by Microsoft of a new program to allow software
> vendors to write software with the Microsoft Office look and feel.

Maintaining the Microsloth Free Zone is getting tougher.
We will need a new Disinfectant release if this is really going to happen.

> "provides detailed user interface specifications and icon bit maps,
> allowing developers to create programs that look like they came from
> Microsoft itself."

Wow! The marketing people at Microsloth again at work! I guess the next move:
"A lot of people in the world uses our renowned look and feel.
Get the Real Thing. Get Microsloth."

> "Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh developers will be invited to join when
> Office 4.2 for Macintosh ships later this year."

Invitation to a funeral. The Macintosh's.

--
Fabrizio Oddone
sim...@di.unito.it

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 15:00:31 -0400
From: Mur...@sbaserv.sba.uconn.edu (Murph Sewall)
Subject: Offline Mail Reader (A)

On Sun, 8 May 1994 17:47:35 -0600, Michael Bradshaw wrote:
>>I am seeking an offline reader for mail for my Mac. I have a dial-up account,
>>not SLIP or PPP.
>
> I'd definitely recommend the freeware program Eudora.

While Eudora is terrific, its use over dialup is limited to SLIP, PPP, or
an appropriate terminal server. The documentation says it will work with a
Cisco terminal server, and I've got it working with a Xyplex terminal
server. The crucial feature is that, one way or another, one has to be
able to telnet to the POP server to read mail and (possibly) to an SMTP
server to send mail. If the dialup simply connects to a host that expects
a VT102 (or some other terminal type), then Eudora isn't going to work.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 12:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: er...@telecnnct.com (Eric William Burger)
Subject: PC-simm can be used as Mac RAM? (A)

> I'd like to know if I can use PC-simm in my Mac IIci: they are 70ns, can
> have 9 or 8 or 4 or 3 chips onto, can be 1 or 2 or 4 megs.

No problem at all! I've done this on my SE/30. So long as the access
times are less than or equal to the Mac's requirements, it's not a problem.
CAVEAT: the Mac IIfx *still* needs a special SIMM.

> The reason is that here in Italy PC-simm cost much less that Mac-simm
The irony is that most PC SIMMS are 9-bit (1 bit for parity). The Mac
ignores the parity bit. You are, in fact, paying less for a PC SIMM
that has more RAM on it (and costs more to manufacture). Most 3rd
party Mac SIMMs have space for 9 chips, but only have 8 populated!

--
-- Eric William Burger -- Eric....@telecnnct.com --
-- The Telephone Connection -- Tel. +1 301/417-0700 --

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 10:37:08 -0400
From: "Jason D. Blue" <jb...@pawpaw.mitre.org>
Subject: PlainTalk Easter Egg (on PowerMacintosh 7100/AV)

After you install PlainTalk, and switch the Speech control panel On, ask the
computer "Computer, Who was the boss?"

Enjoy,
Jason D. Blue

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 10:17:09 -0400
From: Joe Discenza <Joe.Di...@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Subject: PowerMac 6100/60 FPU // MacTCP/MacSLIP crashes [SUMMARY]

I had asked two questions about the PowerMac6100,
the first about the FPU, and the second about MacTCP/MacSLIP crashes.
Thanks for the responses.

In regards to the first question, the general consensus seems to be
that while the PPC601 has the FPU built-in, the emulation mode is that
of the 68LC040, without an FPU. There certainly is not an external FPU,
and so any software that specifically checks for an FPU will be
disappointed. A few suggest SoftFPU, although this may be too slow.
Thanks to the following for this:
From: irb...@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (Al Bloom)
From: Bill Rausch <t9...@cis13.nfuel.com>
From: Peter Macdonald <pdm...@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
From: gc...@cornell.edu (Geoffrey C. Hoffman)

The dissenting opinion,
is that the PowerMac does not have an FPU at all, the chip being
so fast it just does all the FP arithmetic itself. Perhaps this is
the same as the above.

Regarding the second question,
From: irb...@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (Al Bloom)
suggests I make sure I'm running the latest versions (2.0.4 for each) of
MacTCP and MacSLIP. I'm currently running 2.0.4 and 2.0.2 resp, and will
try upgrading MacSLIP.

From: Peter Macdonald <pdm...@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
is simply running his PowerMac with as little non-native software as
possible to maximize speed. C'mon, Apple, where's the native MacTCP?

From: ihel...@ub4b.eunet.be (Peter Helders)
has been having similar crashing problems with MacTCP et al., and
thought part of the problem might have been using the ADB port (Global
Village) instead of serial port. He reports no hangs, crashes, whatever
when MacTCP is disabled on startup. He is using 2.0.4, and suspects
there may be some conflict between 2.0.4 and the PowerMac.
He also warns against using DiskDoubler with MacTCP, but offers
no specifics.

Again, thanks to all who replied. Guess I'll just have to spend my
lunch money on upgrades.

Joe Discenza
disc...@math.lsa.umich.edu

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Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 09:24:30 +0200
From: "Jan van Schoot" <J.B.P.v...@el.utwente.nl>
Subject: printing on a UNIX machine?

I can print my postscript files over the network by transferring them to a
UNIX machine and overthere I give the command "lp -d printer filename.ps" in
order to print the file. Everything fine so far. This is however a rather
clumsy way, taking a lot of time and RAM because I have to load Telnet.
Does anyone know an easier way to accomplish the same? I heard from a
DOS-program called RSH, which stands for remote shell. This is a little
program that is called on a PC which connects to a UNIX machine, sends a
command line and closes the connection again, similar to the way programs
like POPmail treat the UNIX machine. Such a program might be a solution but
I cannot find something like that in the SUMEX archives.
Any help appreciated.

Jan van Schoot, e-mail: s...@eltn.utwente.nl

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 16:37:35 +0200
From: du...@iqe.ethz.ch (Hamit Duran)
Subject: Problem HP DW 5.0 Driver and DW C

I recently installed the new HP series 5.0 driver for my DeskWriter C.
Since then I have the following problem:

If I try to print a color document with the B/W cartridge installed
HP PrintMonitor appears and disappears immediately. Then, a few seconds later,
it appears a second time telling me that it could not print. Pressing
Retry Printing will result in an error message like "Could not complete
your printing job because of a system error." Afterwards, the serial
ports are busy until I reboot my machine.

Switching back to HP DW Driver 3.0 solves the problem.
I am running US system 7.1 on a Quadra 610.

Can somebody help me?

Thanks in advance

Hamit

E-Mail: du...@iqe.phys.ethz.ch

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 18:37:32 +0500
From: h865...@idefix.wu-wien.ac.at (Adalbert Duda)
Subject: product icons

Hello,

I would like to include a few icons of different products in a paper, icons
such as of a TV set, a VCR, a refrigerator,and other household and
consumer electronics products.

Please could anybody help me and advise me where to find those !

Thanks a lot !

Adalbert
Adalbert Wojciech Duda * Email: h865...@idefix.wu-wien.ac.at That's it !

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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 09:48:09 EST
From: "Mark A. Saper" <sa...@umich.edu>
Subject: Programming question

After obtaining an FSSpec for an existing file how do I get the complete path
name of the file? If I use the name element of the FSSpec structure I only
get the actual file name but not the enclosing folders. Any suggestions would
be appreciated.

Dr. Mark A. Saper sa...@umich.edu

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 18:15:23 -0500
From: for...@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Radius card follow-up

An addendum to my previous response to M. Lanza's question:

"Any advice about the Radius Universal 24xp card that CRA systems sell
for $299 (Mac User April 1994, page 190), which is incredibly low price,
as I can understand?"

As I said, CRA no longer sells that card. The card I bought from them turns
out to come in a NEC box, costs $50 more, and has a disk with Radius
software included. I think the card was designed by Radius for NEC.

It's advertised as being optimized for NEC's FG monitors, and does a good
job of giving 24-bit color on my 14" 3FG. Three different resolutions are
possible, expanded, WYSIWYG and condensed. I have a Portrait Display
attched to my Q700's internal video circuitry, so I use condensed on the
FG, since it only displays the desktop and various subsidiary windows in
non-graphics programs. The board is also advertised as compatible with
Apple's 14" color monitor (the more expensive one, I think).

Information on 17" monitors is contradictory. According to the box you also
get WYSIWYG on the 5FG, as well as condensed, but the manual indicates that
only expanded is available (unlikely, I'd have thought - defeats the point
of buying a 17" monitor). Perhaps the manual is talking 24bit, and the box
8bit.

I'm having trouble getting the Radius software to run. There are three
cp's, and I eventually got the main one, Radiusware, to load. But the cp
for command-key resolution-switching claims that either it's damaged or
else there isn't enough memory for it to run (there is). And the cp for
QDraw acceleration doesn't load at all. It comes up x-ed thro', and if I
double-click it I get "cannot be used with this MacIntosh". I think this is
a problem with the software, not the board, tho'. I had the same trouble
with RadiusWare on my Q800 with Radius's 21" mono monitor in my office.
Fortunately, none of these cp's are required for the board to work - you
can do all your configuring from System 7's Monitors cp. And the display
seems to be accerlated by default.

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 13:35:53 -0500
From: Bienvenu Jay <sjb...@usl.edu>
Subject: RAM Doubler blocks extensions (update)

Bill Chen (bc...@ucs.ubc.ca) suggested that I update RAM Doubler to version
1.0.1. I tried to get the updater from the mirrors, but I could only get onto
the UIowa archive and couldn't find the updater in the obvious places.
Could someone send me the updater?

P.S. To the archivers: Could I suggest the creation of an Updates directory
to make finding updaters a little easier? I'm sure this would be
greatly appreciated.

MTIA. -- Jay

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Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 10:07:09 -0700
From: "David G. Kay" <k...@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Remapping Caps Lock to Control on PowerBooks: Truly Impossible?

Unix uses and others prefer to have the Control key easily
accessible, just to the left of the A, where the Caps Lock
key appears on most Mac keyboards.

Remapping Caps Lock to Control requires using ResEdit or
the like to change the KCHR resource in the System file.
On desktop keyboards, a further hardware modification
must be made to disable the physical locking of the Caps
Lock key itself.

On PowerBooks, however, there's another difficulty:
While the Caps Lock key doesn't physically lock down, its
locking nature is hard-wired into the keyboard controller,
which means that even after changing the KCHR resource,
you end up with a "Control Lock" key. If you were
actually to use it as a Control key, you'd have to tap it
again every time you lifted your finger up. (You could
think of it as tapping again to turn off the Caps Lock
light.)

Now, I'm no Mac system hacker, but I wonder if this
situation is as intractable as it appears. I'd welcome
the opinions of experts, even if it's only to point out
where my misconceptions are. Doesn't the system
separately register key-down and key-up actions? Couldn't
one, therefore, patch the system in some way so that on
every key-up action on Caps Lock, another key-down/key-up
pair get generated and processed? Wouldn't this solve the
problem?

--DGK

David G. Kay
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 12:43:32 +0200
From: cbu...@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: Small System 7.1 (R)

Richard Smith <ric...@mole.demon.co.uk> asked:
> Can anyone give me any pointers to which resources I can chop out of
> S7.1 (with ResEdit) to make a very small system to go on a 1.44 floppy
> as a repair disk?

There's a piece of software on sumex called "Min-System-Installer" (or
something similar); don't know exact name and path. If you can't find
it there, I have it on floppy at home. It requires a set of "standard"
installation disks from Apple for your specific computer and will create
a system disk (floppy or harddisk).

Greetings, Christian.

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 15:08:37 CDT
From: Rob Shaw <sh...@Ext.Missouri.edu>
Subject: Small system 7.1? (R)

Text item: Text_1

Richard Smith asked about a minimal version of System 7.1 that he
could put on a HD disk so as to leave enough room for other emergency
utilities. No need to use Resedit. You already have a minimal Sys 7.1
on the DiskTools disk. Just make a copy of that. (Make sure you have
the correct enabler on the disk as well.) That's the easy way, or you
could launch the Installer disk and have it create a minimal system.

One related side note, I had been trying to find a way to get DiskFix
from MacTools 2.0 to fit on a floppy with a minimal Sys 7.1. Central
Point sent me the wrong floppies _twice_. What I eventually discovered
was that as long as the correct enabler was on the floppy I could make
a disk that would boot _without the Finder_. Upon booting the disk,
DiskFix is launched automatically. Of course DiskFix is all that will
run, but it works.

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Date: 10 May 1994 15:21:15 -0500
From: "Anne" <har...@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: Sys Software Update 3.0

Has anyone out there gotten a copy of the disk images of System Software 3.0
yet? They're on AppleLink but we can't afford the $30-$40 of long distance
telephone time to the nearest city with a 9600 bps Alink POP.

Thanks,
-abh

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Date: Tue, 10 May 94 23:02:55 EDT
From: Bob Crawford <bcr...@rvgs.vak12ed.edu>
Subject: TIGR converter (Q)

Is there a conversion utility for TIGR files (into some
conventional Mac format)? What Mac applications (if any)
create or can open TIGR files?

Thanks.

Bob Crawford <bcr...@rvgs.vak12ed.edu>

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 07:40:19 -0400
From: dick...@panix.com (Dick Lang)
Subject: Write-Through Extension

When I accidently received this as an attachment to one of the info-mac
digests, I saw something about 25 time speed-up; and then just went ahead
and included it in my system.

Maybe a little foolish? Anyhow it didn't kill anything, but now I am
curious as to what the thing is actually doing in there? I don't see a 25
time change in anything!

Could the author or someone who knows please post a detailed explanation?

Thanks

- Dick -

_____________________________________
Stony Brook, LI, NY 11790
If the wind is howling; I'm not here!

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 22:30:32 -0600
From: Lin...@starsys.laf.in.us (Ken Linger)
Subject: Zoom Help Needed

What is the best setup string for a Zoom modem? The string will either be
used in the Apple Modem Tool or by istelf (without any tools). I'm having
problems with my 14.4 hanging up in the middle of a connection for no
apparent reason.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ken

Ken Linger -- Lin...@starsys.laf.in.us -- Zin...@aol.com

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Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 08:04:07 EDT
From: "James F. Palmer" <zo...@suvm.acs.syr.edu>

About six months ago there were rumors that Apple was going to market a
CD-writer. Has anyone heard current rumors?

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