Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU!info-mac-request From: info-mac-request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest Subject: Info-Mac Digest V9 #96 Message-ID: <9104290307.AA04089@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Date: 29 Apr 91 03:07:07 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 685 Approved: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest Sun, 28 Apr 91 Volume 9 : Issue 96 Today's Topics: [*] DeSEA 1.0 [*] Diamonds 1.5 [*] Edit_II_11.sit.hqx 2 FileMaker Pro questions Always suggesting a word in Word 4.0? Apple ][e card for the LC -- disappointing? Classic memory to 2.5MB cleaning floppy drive heads in public lab Description of Riddler program? Looking for a FONT entitled _Perpetua_ Microphone II Confusion. $65 or $85 New Radius accelerator Printing Color PixMaps on IM LQ Serial communications from HyperCard 2.0 Software for pre-school age - Summary Standard ReadMe documents, another plea, MountImage StyleWriter, Mandelbrot, Book Printing Summary: SLIP for Mac System 7.0 Upgrades What system for a IIFX Zaum Gadget problem The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 91 16:01:19 EDT From: kenh@eclectic.com (Ken Hancock) Subject: [*] DeSEA 1.0 Enclosed is a utility that I've written to convert self-extracting archives to their non-self-extracting cousins. Currently, DeSEA is configured to recognize Compact Pro and StuffIt SEA archives. DeSEA will convert either single files, or an entire directory, by first stripping the resource file, changing the type/creator, clearing the finder flags, and renaming the file. This should be especially useful to those Sysops who have users uploading .sea files or to those who routinely download archives >From one site and forward them to another. DeSEA is freeware. Compact Pro archive. Enjoy! Ken [Archived as /info-mac/util/de-sea.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Apr 91 15:13:32 +0200 From: odreer@iiic.ethz.ch Subject: [*] Diamonds 1.5 Finally here is my promised version 1.5 of Diamonds. I've inclued all announced stuff. I've also rewritten a large part of the game, so now it should work on most color Macs. Minimal Configuration : 2MB Ram, 4-Bit Color Video and at least 640*480 screen resolution. I have also included a Level Mover, so that all those people who got the Level Editor can publish their new levels. When I've got enough Shareware fees, I will also publish the Editor as public Domain! So keep on sending me checks or cash! Oliver Dreer odreer@iiic.ethz.ch [Archived as /info-mac/game/diamonds-15.hqx; 330K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 19:04:42 CST From: kseah@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Cheng-Lim Seah) Subject: [*] Edit_II_11.sit.hqx Edit II 1.1 is an update to Edit II 1.0.2. Besides fixing bugs in 1.0.2, 1.1 incorporates new features: * Balancing of parentheses, braces and brackets. * Preferences file for font/size etc settings * Strip/Add linefeeds. Special SmartStrip mode to invisibly remove linefeeds on opening a file and to reinsert them when saving. * Select all available on Edit menu *** Bugs fixed *** o Crash on exit on Mac Plus fixed (tried to call non-existent ADB) o Memory full problem alleviated with save and exit o Typing O in CursorPad mode will cause a cursor down >>> For the uninitiated <<< Edit II is a replacement for Consulair's venerable (and copyrighted) Edit. It supports the use of the F1-F4 keys for copying and has a cursor pad mode (as well as uses the cursor keys). Shareware fee: $15 Regards - Ken PS If you have already registered - this one's for you [Archived as /info-mac/app/edit-ii-11.hqx; 68K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 22:09:00 +0200 Subject: 2 FileMaker Pro questions >X-Envelope-To: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU >X-Vms-To: MAC Lausanne, Switzerland, April 27, 91, 10:10pm Hi Mac Info Netters, I have 2 questions about FileMaker Pro... I'm actually importing Reflex databases from the PC world into FileMaker databases. The Import function does a good work. But, I would like to know 2 things... 1) I'm appending 3 databases into 1. So I have names repeated in my database list. I have added, in FileMaker, a field containing the origin of each name: 3 boxes where I click in, named "File 1", "File 2" and "File 3". For example, if a person was in File1 and in File3, I'll have it twice, in two separate records, one with the Box "File1" marked on and the other one with the Box "File 3" marked on. I would like to know if it is possible to copy the information of the second record into the first in order to obtain only one record with that person, and both "File 1" and "File 3" boxes marked on ? Example: Jordi Steve xFile 1 oFile 2 oFile 3 Jordi Steve oFile 1 oFile 2 xFile 3 must give Jordi Steve xFile 1 oFile2 xFile 3 (where x is a marked box) 2) I also have a field named "Record number". I only put here the number of the record. But, is it possible to renumber it automaticly from the 1st to the last one with a step of 1 (or 2, 10, ... ) ??? I would like to use this when sorting the records by name. As a result of the sort, the "record number" fields are not sorted anymore ! Thanks for excusing me the way I speak English (I'm very tired!), and thanks too for any help. And remember: Don't Worry, Be Apple ! Steve Jordi, University of Geneva, Switzerland JORDI@SC2A.UNIGE.CH ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 22:11:00 +0200 Subject: Always suggesting a word in Word 4.0? >X-Envelope-To: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU >X-Vms-To: MAC Hi again netters, I would like to know if it is possible, in Word 4.0 to force the speller to ALWAYS suggest words ? I know there is such an option in Word for Windows (on PC), but can we do the same in Word 4.0? It is boring to click on the button each time we want a suggestion... Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Steve Jordi, University of Geneva, Switzerland JORDI@SC2A.UNIGE.CH ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 11:37 EDT From: NEUBURG@campus.swarthmore.edu Subject: Apple ][e card for the LC -- disappointing? The Apple ][e cards to go into the LC have finally shipped, so I took a look at the instruction manual that comes with it to see how it was going to solve my problem of porting my Apple ][e world onto my mac. I was disappointed to see, however, that the manual says *nothing* about the much vaunted sharing of the LC's hard disk: the manual speaks only in terms of your having inside your LC an Apple ][ that you can run off floppies. If you are like me, this is going to help you not at all. I've got literally years of work on a hard disk from my Apple ][ days, and am no longer set up to run off floppies at all. If I can't get my whole Apple ][ world onto my LC's hard disk, the Apple ][ card is pointless: I may as well just try to get the textfiles onto the LC with Apple File Exchange and treat them as Mac files (just what I intend to do). Since there was a thread about Apple ][ --> mac transfer running on this net some while ago, I thought I ought to mention this little bummer. It may be, in fact, that there *is* a way to partition the hard disk so the Apple ][e card can share it with the mac, but the manual doesn't mention it, and on the strength of that I see no reason, after all, to buy one. The usual disclaimer: this is just my stupid opinion, subject to correction at any time by those wiser than I. matt neuburg = neuburg@campus.swarthmore.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 11:01:34 PDT From: 6500erik%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu (Erik Adams) Subject: Classic memory to 2.5MB Yes, you should be able to put the 256k SIMMs into your classic, but if you do it yourself you'll void the warranty. Better to have a dealer do it. Erik ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 14:47 CDT From: AEEVERETT%UALR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: cleaning floppy drive heads in public lab Hello netters, I haven't seen this kind of question up here before, so I don't feel too guilty for asking. Are any of you using any kind of cleaner floppy with solvents to clean floppy drive read/write heads on a routine basis? Are these kind of cleaners to be trusted? Do they ruin heads? If this kind of disk is good for cleaning heads, can you recommend good brands to look at? Thanks in advance. Albert Everett UALR Academic Computing Services BITNET: aeeverett@ualr.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 09:59:06 CDT From: Marshall Carroll Subject: Description of Riddler program? Hi. Does anyone have information about the Riddler software program? Thanks in advance for any info? Marsh Internet: NU163467@VM1.NODAK.EDU BITNET: NU163467@NDSUVM1 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 20:02 EST From: THE GOAT SLAYER Subject: Looking for a FONT entitled _Perpetua_ Hello there.... I am in dire need of a font called PERPETUA. Since info-mac has lots of fonts in the archives, and since info-mac goes out to a lot of people, I was wondering if anybody could help me. If anybody has this font, or knows how/where to get it, please let me know. Thank you, G_WERNER@cc.brynmawr.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 15:28:41 CDT From: ECPKLINE%UMCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: Microphone II Confusion. $65 or $85 Concerning my previous note a few weeks ago about Microphone II being offered for $65, well not quite. I was told that over the phone, but when I later talked to the sales rep, he stated that $65 was for Universities Computer not us regular students. He did state that I could have the software sent to me directly for $85 plus shipping. This is still under dealer cost and allows you to upgrade for free to 4.0 in august. Also this is a full standard working copy, not limited. I think this is a wonderful deal and I plan on pursuing it as soon as possible. Sorry about the confusion. Jeff Kline (ecpkline@umcvmb.missouri.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 15:07:12 edt From: Kelvin Gustilo Subject: New Radius accelerator Has anyone used the Radius Rocket accelerator? It's a NuBus card containing a 25 MHz 68040. I would like some information regarding performance and compatability problems. I saw a review on the NY Times Science Section a few weeks back and someone said it had rather peculiar problems with Word? Please e-mail to my address and I will summarize it for the net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 11:44:49 SDT From: Norbert Mueller Subject: Printing Color PixMaps on IM LQ Has anybody found a way to print colored pixmaps on an ImageWriter LQ! Color prints are Ok if the source is an object PICT file but pixmaps always appear Black and White only? Norbert Mueller, Institute of Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University, LINZ AUSTRIA ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 11:35 EDT From: Michael Harpe Subject: Serial communications from HyperCard 2.0 I want to write an application in HyperCard that uses a modem to dial an online service, retrieve the data, format and display it. I can do everything else but the serial stuff is going to require an XFCN and an XCMD. I am looking at the Serial Toolkit from APDA. It's only $20 and I can have it right away. I am wondering if there are other products that are better for some reason. Please respond directly to me. I'll summarize if the responses would be of interest to all. Mike Harpe University of Louisville ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 09:15 CDT From: Flying Low Without Radar Subject: Software for pre-school age - Summary Howdy again, all. Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for help in locating software suitable for use by a pre-school age child. I have included a summary of the responses I received below. A couple of notes: 1] The software available on the net seems to come from the hypercard stack directory at sumex. I tried to get Puz'lings via FTP and then a kermit download to my Mac, and something went wrong. The Mac file I ended up with would not unstuff due to file corruption. Has anyone successfully downloaded this stack? I'm guessing I did something wrong somewhere in the transfer. 2] My 5 year old enjoys playing with Superpaint and a game I found on sumex-aim, Toxic Ravene. Happy Macing. Kevin Houle - (KH1461A@DRAKE : Bitnet) ============================================================================ < > < Playroom Reader Rabbit McGee > < KidsTime Math Rabbit PreSchool Pak > < KidPix Blaster > < Riddler Katie's Farm > < Cosmic Osmo is a very popular (and very large) hypercard > < Also, there are a great many Hypercard stacks with child appeal. > < Of course, you don't have to limit yourself to programs designed > < If you have a hard disk, the thing you have to worry most about is > < > < > < I have a three-year old who is an active Mac user. HyperCard 2.0 (or 1.2.5)> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 13:04:54 PDT From: REM@suwatson.stanford.edu Subject: Standard ReadMe documents, another plea, MountImage I download MountImage, but when I un-stuffed it I found the ReadMe MountImage file was of type SIMA and creator GEOL. Not even QUILL can read it. So how am I supposed to read the stuff that is so crucially important it's put in the ReadMe document? I add my voice to the chorus of requests that all ReadMe documents be plain ASCII TEXT (I don't care what creator since I can patch that or manually select the file from inside any TEXT editor), and that all regular documentation be in something that can be read by some freeware program (i.e. somebody should publish the data representation of Microsoft Word and MacWrite so that somebody else can easily write a WordReadonly program and a MacWriteReadonly program and make them generally available; and SIMU/GEOL etc. shouldn't be used at all for documentation). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 16:21:59 EDT From: Paul Devalier Subject: StyleWriter, Mandelbrot, Book Printing I would appreciate any help on the following: 1) Has anyone heard of a way to use non-water-soluble ink cartridges with the StyleWriter. I remember people going around the DeskWriter problem by injecting ink into the used cartridges. Is there any solution to this problem? 2) There used to be a program called Mandelbrot in the archives, which allowed for exploration of that set. It had fairly extsenive online help and excellent color picking tools. I believe it was shareware $35. I've looked in several archives, including the one here at Brown and it seem to have been erased everywhere I looked. How can I get it? 3) I need to print pages onto paper which will later be bound into a book. I therefore need a way to print pages, not in their sequential order, but in such a way that by binding them folio, they will appear in their sequential order. Is anyone getting me? For example, a book bound with 2 full letter sheets will have 8 pages, 2 on the inside of each sheet and 2 on the outside (one page per half piece of paper per side). One paper will be numbered 2,7,1,8 and the second paper will be numbered 3,4,5,6. Take a look at a bound hard cover book to see what I mean. So, my question is: What reasonably priced software/hardware combo will allow me to do this. Any help would and will be appreciated. Thank you, Paul Devalier PAD@BROWNVM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 15:17:37 PDT From: "Donald R. Proctor spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu" Subject: Summary: SLIP for Mac Thanks to everyone who replied to my inquiry about SLIP for the Mac. Following is a summary of the responses I received. > Does anyone know of a SLIP implementation for the Mac? I'd like, for > instance, to dial in to a Unix host at work and ftp files to my Mac > at home. ------- >From: "Dana Cartwright, Syracuse Univ, 315-443-4504" To: spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu A/UX has a slip implementation....works fine for telnet and ftp, but it's been driving me crazy trying to run NFS...... I keep hearing rumors about a TCP/IP package which runs under the regular Mac OS, but I haven't seen anything concrete on this...... ------- >From: Eric Meininger To: spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu Subject: SLIP implementation Check out the program MacNet which is available on the archives at ub.cc.umich.edu, um.cc.umich.edu and probably now mac-archive.ifs.umich.edu. This program uses an implementation of the SLFP protocol for FTPing, not SLIP. If they're totally irrelevant, then please ignore my ranting. :) Eric Meininger PS: The um and ub archives are located in the PC2: directory. ------- >From: faith@eagle.mit.edu (Ray Faith) To: spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu (Donald R. Proctor) Subject: SLIP for Mac At MIT I, as a client, use a SLIP implementation to access our POP3 mail server via telephone. I don't know the details concerning distribution rights, and I don't know for sure whether it works for other network applications, but would guess that this is the case. You should contact the network services group at information systems to get more info about this software. Try (617) 253-4101 (their usual help line). I'm pretty sure that SLIP is sold very cheaply as a component of a communications toolkit within MIT, and it may be available via anonymous ftp at a suitable network server (with a name something like net-serve.mit.edu) but I can't give any details now because I don't have that info at hand here at home. If you want to access this software, and can get no help from the phone connection, send me a note and I will try to help you further. ------- >From: Daniel Schwabe Subject: SLIP for mac To: spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu Version 2.3 of NCSA Telnet (available from the infomac arch.) accepts the option hardware=slipN (N=2400, 9600, 19200, ...) in the configuration file (although it is not documented). I've been using it w/o problems for both telnet and ftp. If you find any other alternatives, I would also like to know. Cheers, Daniel Schwabe ------- >From: Troy Gaul Subject: Re: SLIP for the Mac To: spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu The only one I have heard of is in TCP/Connect II (or something like that) from Intercon Systems. It has many parts, including mail, news, telnet, ftp, etc. all in internet network form, and it also comes with SLIP capabilites. The price is in the multiple-hundred-dollar range, but I believe that you can get only the parts you need for less than the package price. If you hear of any other alternatives, let me know if you would. Thanks. ------- >From: zben@ni.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) To: spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu Subject: slip for mac InterCon's TCP-Connect, a commercial product, supports slip. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 13:11:34 PDT From: Dave Martin Subject: System 7.0 Upgrades Just wanted to vent a frustration. System 7.0 is supposed to be released May 13 >From what I've read in MacWeek. Of course, Apple is saying nothing. Here it is, almost the end of April, less than three weeks from the expected release date, and Apple still is giving no information regarding upgrades, pricing, availability, etc. Even if System 7.0FC is still too buggy to release by that date, and things are delayed until June (...or July...or 1992...), Apple should decide immediately how upgrades are to be handled, and get the information to dealers, service providers, and - perhaps far more importantly - end users and system managers. I've called Apple's Customer Assistance number, only to be told that the only information that Apple has released regarding System 7.0 is that it will be released during the first half of 1991, and that pricing and availability information will be released when the release date is determined, with shipping shortly thereafter. As the unofficial manager of a small (~20) Macintosh network -- not alot of 'em, but enough -- I need to be able to plan purchasing and installing the upgrades for budgeting both money and time. Apple's delay in getting such very important information to the people who need it shows just how little they really care about customer service. MacWeek has claimed that the individual upgrade price (which, by the license included in Apple's more recent System software, can only be used on one unit, and cannot be copied except for backup purposes) is supposed to be $99 (up from their original report of $49), with the site-license upgrade kit, which allows unlimited copies of the software at the site, should run $250 to $350. This group upgrade kit reportedly (from the original MacWeek story) will ship only on CD-ROM. If this is the case, I need to know so that I can purchase a CD-ROM drive, and expect to buy the group upgrade. Even if not, I still need to know what is coming, when, and what it will cost. Apple seems to believe that secrecy is their best weapon. Not a very effective weapon when you consider the number of sites planning to hold off on System 7.0 until next year. True, many are waiting to see how well it works, to plan training for the new System, and so forth. But would as many be waiting if Apple had been willing to give out more information sooner? Probably, but would they be waiting quite as long? Sorry, I've been ranting awhile here. If you think Apple should release upgrade and shipping information now, you should call the Apple Customer Assistance Center at 1-800-776-2333 and tell them to pass a message on up the line stating your dissatisfaction with Apple's lack of information on this very important subject. If you work at Apple, how about getting the OK from on high to send in an official or semi-official statement on the topic? If anyone has any information at all, please respond to me or to the net. Thanks for putting up with this... Dave Martin, Geochem & Enviro Rsrch Group, Texas A&M Univ. - DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 13:55:45 -0400 From: grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Liam Grant) Subject: What system for a IIFX Hello, Someone in the office here just got a Mac IIfx a few weeks ago. At the moment he is getting a lot of "Coprocessor not installed" bombs and just plain freezes. Could anyone tell me where to start looking for this problem. I just upgraded his MS Word to ver 4.0D and I'm hoping that will help somewhat. What system should he be running on this machine (6.0.5 or 6.0.7) ? Please reply direct to me at "grant@css.itd.nrl.navy.mil" and I will summarize for info-mac. Liam Grant, NRL, Code 5541, Washington, DC 20375-5000, (202) 767-2392 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 15:04:19 PLT From: Paul Brians Subject: Zaum Gadget problem I downloaded "Zaum Gadget" but can't get it to work. When I try to press any of the three buttons "Zaum Bother," "Zaum Wound," or "Zaum Sound" I get the message "That tool is not available at the current user level," and when I quit HyperCard (the only way to exit from the stack that I have found), I get the message "Can't find menu item 'compact stack'." What--if anything--am I doing wrong? I'm using HyperCard 2.0. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 10:56:05 PDT From: 6500erik%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu (Erik Adams) Open the MacPaint document with any paint program that supports color and colorize it. All versions of SuperPaint do this, for example. Erik ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************