info-mac@uw-beaver (07/02/85)
From: Moderator John Mark Agosta <INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.arpa>
INFO-MAC Digest Wednesday, 26 Jun 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 14
Today's Topics:
MacWrite Italics & Throwing out locked/in-use files
Analog clock desk accessory
Directory rebuilder?
MacPaint/Draw transfers
MacIntosh Programming Languages, a complete list?
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 85 11:22:03 pdt
From: erik%ucbssl.CC@Berkeley (Erik Kilk)
Subject: MacWrite Italics & Throwing out locked/in-use files
With the new MacWrite, italic words at the right edge of the margin
have their last letter chopped in half when printed.
By holding down the control-option keys, you can throw into the
garbage files which the finder claims are locked or in-use.
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 85 18:19:17 EST
Subject: Analog clock desk accessory
From: dm@bbn-vax.arpa
Here is an analog clock desk accessory. It will run on a 128K Mac
with Macterminal (although it took a bit of tweaking to make it small
enough -- I think because I have no control over the amount of memory
Megamax C allocates for the stack).
Does anyone know how to make a desk-accessory receive update events?
[ You may find the binhex version of this in <INFO-MAC>DA-ACLOCK2.HQX
-jma ]
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Date: Tue 25 Jun 85 11:07:27-MDT
From: Tony Jacobs <T-JACOBS@UTAH-20.ARPA>
Subject: Directory rebuilder?
I've had a number of disks come up with the 'can't read.... initialize
or eject' message and after exploring a bit with some of the file edit
utilities that are around, I believe the directory has gotten
corrupted.
Anyone know of a program yet that rebuilds the directory from the tag
blocks?
Tony Jacobs
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 85 8:56:36 EDT
From: Andrew Malis <malis@BBNCCS.ARPA>
Subject: MacPaint/Draw transfers
Does anyone know if it is possible to import a full-page Draw picture
into Paint? I can put the full-page drawing into the clipboard and
the scrapbook, but when I'm in Paint and try to paste the drawing from
the clipboard, it is clipped (not shrunk) to the size of the Paint
window, and the portion of the drawing that makes it into the window
seems to be random.
My goal is to be able to do Paint post-processing on drawings, and to
be able to use MACQMS (which needs the Paint bitmap) to print them out
on a QMS pageprinter.
One additional question: do the PICT-format MacDraw documents have any
utility? I can't find any other application that can directly read
them, and I don't know what the difference is between the
MacDraw-format and PICT-format documents (other than their Finder
icon).
Thanks, Andy
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 85 13:10:39 edt
From: samuels@mitre (Michael Samuels)
Subject: MacIntosh Programming Languages, a complete list?
A friend of mine is looking into programming languages for the
MacIntosh. Does the following list include all available languages?
1. Fortran
2. Pascal (MacPascal, UCSD)
3. Forth
4. Assembler
5. C
6. Basic
7. Lisp
8. Logo
9. Modula-2
10. Neon
If anyone has brief comments about any other languages or packages for
the various languages, I would appreciate hearing them. Thanks.
Michael Samuels
samuels@mitre
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