info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (12/03/84)
From: PIERCE@SRI-KL.ARPA
** Mac Terminal **
I have been transfering most of the archives of
info-mac to mac disks and have learned a bit about
storing information, this is a summary...
On a one disk drive system a disk with both
MacTerminal and System does not have much space for
getting files, solution? Select Save-As... , eject the
current disk and put an empty one in -- new transfers
will go to this new disk! (granted that is a logical
thing, but it took me a while to figure it out... I
thought it would just put the set-up file, not the
downloaded resource files.)
On a 512 system I put system and Macterm into ram
disk and then have my data disks that can flip in and
out. I even changed data disks in the middle of a
login session with my net computer.
On a two drive system (either 128 or 512) the
solution is simple - Macterm + system in one drive,
data in the other.
It is so nice having "About MacTerm" report 380K
bytes free!!!
**MacWrite**
I just saw an Apple release to dealers saying that
the new MacWrite IS being shipped with the new Macs!!!
I have not seen a real one but they report advances
beyond 3.17, i.e. a pull down style selection to
center/right/left justify selected text to reduce the
number of rulers. Lets hope they increased the number
of paragraphs you can have! (current limit is too
small)
MacWrite 3.17 is MUCH better than the old one. I
have been dealing with files up to 80K bytes long (40
Pages). I have found the ideal way to work is on a
512, System and MacWrite in RAM disk and data files
flipped in and out (this is on a two drive 512!) Guess
what? I leave my second drive empty. Yes, I agree a
RAM Disk is a kluge, but whatever works with available
software.
** MacProject***Imagewriter file***
I just saw (touched, read, copied) a RELEASED copy
of MacProject. It is still called version 1.0 (all of
the pre-released versions were 1.0). It works just
fine, and the documentation gives a few hints that were
not obvious from playing with it (i.e. your are in
project schedule typing, Tab puts you in task
information, enter calculates the modified schedule and
Return returns you to the schedule and bumps you to the
next task). I have not noticed any difference from the
old Beta versions floating around.
The REAL NEWS is it is being shipped with a new (to
me) version of Imagewriter (called Imagewriter 15). It
has some real nice features -- can print with/without
page breaks and can use the 15" wide imagewriter
printer. The pagebreak feature is VERY nice for
MacProject and MacDraw. You have to rename the file
from Imagewriter 15 to just plain Imagewriter. It
also seems to be a little better in the "printer not
responding" problem that is so bad in the old
imagewriter file.
*** FONTS FONTS FONTS ***
My mouse is off its pad for the work Keith Sproul
did with the fonts. The documentation is great and I
was up and running font editor in no time. He put in a
hell of alot of work for us on the net, we appreciate
it Keith!!
I would like to put in a vote for the Princeton font
as the standard for Math fonts on the Mac. I found its
layout better than ChicMath. By the way chicmath
bothered me because of the laser printer coming in
January. Does anyone know if the Laser will have built
in 'standard' fonts or are they all going to be locally
downloaded from macs? If they are standard it makes a
vote for a modified Apple font more logical than a
totally new font like ChicMath.
*** Pad For Mouse ***
My tracking ball on the mouse slips on formica table
tops so I have been looking for a solution. I saw
those mouse pads in stores, but I am a cheapskate, so I
was going to find a better solution. One suggestion
was a piece of skindiving material. Ok where do you get
that? Then I came across a vinyl covered 3 ring
binder, it seems to work fine -- and (with a
papercutter) I got two for the price of one.
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Jerry Pierce Pierce@SRI-KL
-------info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (12/05/84)
From: allegra!watmath!water!murlocker@uw-beaver.arpa To prevent mouse slippage the cheap way you can try a rubber place mat. You actually only need about half of it, so if you're really hard up you couldd split the cost. :-)