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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 27 May 91 Volume 9 : Issue 118 Today's Topics: [*] Core Wars Simulator [*] Isotope Calculator 1.6 [*] Pictoid Utilities [*] PINS! v2.0 GIF [*] Pixel Flipper 1.3 [*] Replacement for Robot Battle [*] SGIL "Fast Math Init" for Plus/SE [*] Shareware INIT to do printer tracking [*] Timetraveller.GIF [*] UUTool123.cpt.hqx boomerang ditto CD-ROM drives FileMaker Pro question HARD DISK POWER (2 msgs) How to reach Dynaware USA? Info-Mac Digest V9 #117 Latest version of Kermit Mac FileSharing and Unix FileSharing MacIIsi Tuning (or Cache vs Color) Macintalk & Sys 7 Nisus 3.05 Bug? Questions on AFE, True Type and AppleTalk PC Sys 7 + Plus + BLP II = ? System 7 - Now What? System 7 - questions/responses Teleport Modem Troff to Mac conversions... The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa 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: Tue, 30 Apr 91 16:23 CDT From: PK6811S@acad.drake.edu Subject: [*] Core Wars Simulator Core Wars Simulator. Core Wars was described in Scientific American articles written by A.K. Dewdney a couple of years ago. Using a simple (but suprisingly powerful) command language, you write fighter programs that try to kill each other off. Compressed with Stuffit. Contains application, manuals, and fighter programs from 1987, 88, and 89 official tournaments. [Archived as /info-mac/game/core-wars-simulator.hqx; 232K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 09:09:36 CDT From: allan@chem.nwu.edu (David Allan) Subject: [*] Isotope Calculator 1.6 This program is useful for calculating the mass spectral isotope pattern for a given chemical formula, assuming natural abundance for each of the elements. This version does not handle chemical formulae for isotopically enriched species. The program was written by Les Arnold of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Shareware, $15. This is a binhexed compactor archive. ***If anyone knows how to contact Les Arnold or the University of Waikato Department of Chemistry, please respond to me via the net. I'd like to ask him to add capability for handling isotopically-enriched species. Thanks.*** David Allan Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 [Archived as /info-mac/app/isotope-calculator-16.hqx; 60K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 18:14:32 BST From: Nigel Perry <np@doc.imperial.ac.uk> Subject: [*] Pictoid Utilities This is HyperCard 2 stack containing three externals: (a) idleCursor - which allows you to change the cursor HC uses for idle/browse i.e. you can now make your cursor changes stick without HC reseting it back to the hand (b) available() - which returns a list of all available sounds, pictures, fonts, etc, etc. and (c) fontInfo() - which returns details of the available bitmaps for a font, and whether they are styled or plain. Also returns this info for TrueType fonts. This stack is called Pictoid Utilities as it is part of the next release of Regions, now renamed Pictoids. Its early release was prompted by a Usenet request for an XCMD like idleCursor. The stack is copyright, free for personal use. No commercial, profit-making or shareware use without prior agreement with the author. Enjoy! Nigel Perry np@doc.ic.ac.uk [Archived as /info-mac/card/xcmd/pictoid-utilities.hqx; 12K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 23:33:32 EDT From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu Subject: [*] PINS! v2.0 GIF Greetings, Here is a spectacular 640x480x256 GIF image created by David Palermo. I downloaded it from America Online, and re-upload it here with his permission. This makes a very cool desktop image for color Macs, although you'll need a good graphics package (PhotoShop, for instace) to dither it to the System palette, or one of the inits (Thor's?) that loads the deskpicture's palette. David's description follows: "Here is version 2.0 of PINS!. This version is MUCH better than the other. The pins are more realistic. In case any of you are wondering what this is, it is a representation of a book cover. The book is called The RenderMan Companion and has a computer-generated image of bowling pins and a bowling ball on it. I re-created it WITHOUT using RenderMan." David can be reached at (619) 944-9907 or at SPACE7 on America Online. --Mike [Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/pins-20.hqx; 187K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 8:29:42 EDT From: kenh@eclectic.com (Ken Hancock) Subject: [*] Pixel Flipper 1.3 Silly me. After reading a recent info-mac digest, G_WERNER@cc.brynmawr.edu asked about easy ways of changing the color depth of monitors. I replied back to him and Jon (who had suggested Switch-a-Roo and DepthGuage) recommending PixelFlipper. Well, doesn't do much good since it isn't in the archives. So, to solve that problem... Pixel Flipper 1.3 is a slick little cdev which gives a pop-up menu when you click anywhere on the screen with modifier keys of your choice of all the available monitor depths as well as a color/gray option. It's tres nifty and only $10 shareware. Compact Pro archive. Enjoy! Ken [Archived as /info-mac/cdev/pixel-flipper-13.hqx; 32K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 91 16:18:19 -0400 From: "Tobish E Smith" <bluecow@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Subject: [*] Replacement for Robot Battle you program robots in a language similar to BASIC (called RIPPLE) and then watch two robots fight it out to the death, using a variety of weapons. All the while, humans roam around the battlefield, throwing grenades at lethargic robots and getting smooshed beneath huge metal feet. For those who downloaded the 1.02 version, here's a list of bug fixes/new features in version 1.1: 1. Resolution of the nasty bugs associated with 1.02. 2. Separate b/w & color versions - smaller for b/w users, faster for color users (the color version is compiled for '020s or greater). Only the b/w version is being posted to sumex, to allow for quicker downloads. If you're interested in the color version, write me e-mail and I'll send you a copy. 3. Extensive improvements to the language. The new language is backwards compatible with the current (1.02) version of RB, but has the following new features: a. No spaces needed between arguments; 10letb=c/d is a perfectly valid line of code now b. No carriage return is needed after the last line of a robot program. This is a small fix, but caused a lot of confusion c. Users can create their own variables now. In addition to still having the ever-lovable A through Z variables, you can now have lines such as "Harriet = George * 2". This makes for easier-to-read robot code. Up to 200 variables can be declared per robot. d. For/next loops. By popular demand, these have been implemented. For/next loops can be nested up to 75 levels deep. e. User-definable arrays. A line like "Dimension SomeArray(75)" will create a 75-element array. You can then have lines like "SomeArray(12)=SomeArray(5) / 6". f. Optional line numbers. Lines numbers are only needed as labels now. An example of a completely valid RB v1.1 robot: Equip 1 0 0 0 0 400 For loop=1 to 36 swivel 10 zap next 20 turn 1 goto 20 So, as you can see, line numbers are only needed on lines that you want to branch to. 4. Shield weighting. This allows you to distribute energy to your eight shields as you see fit. 5. All the weapons are now available for use in this version. However, only the lasers do damage. This allows users to get a feel for the full game by seeing how the entire system acts. 6. Miscellaneous bug fixes. 7. Snazzy new intro theme. Tob & Chuck Blue Cow Software bluecow@unix.cis.pitt.edu [Archived as /info-mac/game/robot-battle-11.hqx; 400K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 14:24:57 EDT From: Scott Barvian <barvian@dart.ece.cmu.edu> Subject: [*] SGIL "Fast Math Init" for Plus/SE The SGIL company of France has provided a shareware INIT which replaces the SANE calls in your Macintosh with a faster mathematics library. It performs all calculations in REAL*4 precision (32 bits instead of SANE's 80 bits) which results in a nice speed improvement for FORTRAN applications running on an SE or Plus without the floating point co-processor. The Whetstone benchmark improves by a factor of 2.2 on an SE. [Archived as /info-mac/init/sgil-fast-math.hqx; 42K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 00:20:31 EDT From: kovar@eclectic.com (David C. Kovar) Subject: [*] Shareware INIT to do printer tracking This is an INIT that keeps track of printing on an individual Macintosh. Each time a job is sent to a printer, this INIT writes the following information to a file called "PrintTrack Log" in the System Folder: Name, Date, Time, Number of Pages, Type of Printer Used, Filename The file is a straight ASCII file with tabs for delimiters, so you can import it into just about anything you want. This isn't overly useful for charging people because the name recorded is just the user name. This INIT *is* Shareware. We ask that you send us a check for $20 if you decide to use it. If you want to license it for a number of Macintoshes, please give us a call and we can work something out. Your Shareware fee will entitle you to free upgrades (or at cost upgrades if we have to ship out a disk). If you have any comments or suggestions, or you are interested in more secure solutions, please send mail to info@eclectic.com or call Eclectic Associates, Inc. at 617-643-3373. Enjoy! -David Kovar [Archived as /info-mac/init/printer-tracking.hqx; 81K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 23:31:42 EDT From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu Subject: [*] Timetraveller.GIF Greetings, Attached is a spectacular 640x480x256 GIF image by David Palermo. It's a surrealistic rendering of a sort of "cosmic wristwatch" on a marble surface. It's very hard to describe, but it's visually stunning, and makes a superb desktop image. I downloaded it from America Online and re-upload it here with his permission. David's description follows: "This image is of a woman (my friend's wife) sitting inside a time piece looking out into space which is inside the time piece. Does that make sense? I guess you will have to see it to understand." Please note that the correct title is "Timetraveller". It may have been truncated somewhere along the way... David can be reached at (619) 944-9907 or at Space7 on America Online. --Mike [Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/time-traveller.hqx; 149K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 10:57:11 MDT From: wieser@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser) Subject: [*] UUTool123.cpt.hqx Greetings Netters; Here is a bug fix release of UUTool. UUTool does uu**coding, but has some special features to allow for Macintoshness and internet mailers which don't like white space. UUTool 1.2.3 should work on 68000 machines now. There was a bug in the prefs. dialogue. It should replace /util/uutool12 in the sumex archives. Bernie [Archived as /info-mac/util/uutool-123.hqx; 15K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 91 11:43 EDT From: NEUBURG@campus.swarthmore.edu Subject: boomerang ditto Just want to echo James Davis' lament in the last info-mac about boomerang not working under system 7. It doesn't surprise me but it maketh me to weep: it was more important and valuable to me than any other init, and I probably won't actually do a full switch over into system 7 if no substitute is forthcoming... :-( matt ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 91 12:12:36 EST From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: CD-ROM drives On Fri, 24 May 1991 15:41 CDT you said: >2. Can the CD-ROM drive be connected to the network and accessed >that way instead of available only to the mac it is connected to?? The CD-ROM drive can be connected to the network but until the new release of AppleShare comes out you'll have to *reboot the network* :-( everytime you want to change disks in the drive <bummer!> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 17:18:00 +0200 Subject: FileMaker Pro question Hi again, I have a question on FileMaker Pro... I have 670 records in my database. Each record has a field "Data Number". It is actually numbered 1, 2, ..., 669, 670. I want them to be numbered in a different way, with a step for example (5, 10, 15, ..., 1015, 1020, ..). Is it possible to AUTOMATICALY renumber each record ? Thanks for the help, and remember: don't worry, be Apple ! Sincerely, Steve Jordi, Dpt of Geophysics, Uni Geneva, Switzerland -> jordi@sc2a.unige.ch ------------------------------ Date: 24 May 91 17:42 EDT From: FAC1893%UOFT01.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: HARD DISK POWER I currently have a 40MB Quantum internal hard disk in an original Mac II. I wanted to add another INTERNAL 105MB Quantum hard disk. However, I have talked to 2 vendors and one says no problem, the other says absolutely not, you'll exceed Apple's power requirements. On the side of the Mac II power supply I can see the following power output limits: Voltage Amp V1 +5 18.0 V2 +12 2.5 V3 -12 1.0 Can I add the additional Quantum drive or do I need to buy an external 105MB or a case, power supply, etc. for the 40MB? If I need to buy an external case does anyone have a suggested supplier? Thanks for your help. I'd rather not fry my motherboard! Gary Pawlas fac1893@uof01.utoledo.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 91 08:45 EST From: GRX0107@uoft02.utoledo.edu Subject: Hard disk power I currently have a 40MB Quantum niternal hard disk in an original Mac II with an Apple video card. I wanted to add another INTERNAL 105MB Quantum hard disk. However, I have talked to 2 vendors and one says no problem, the other says absolutely not, you'll exceed Apple's power requirements. Neither vendor could support their claims with data. On the side of the Mac II power supply I can see the following power limits: Voltage Amp V1 +5 18.0 V2 +12 2.5 V3 -12 1.0 Can I add the additional Quantum drive or do I need to 1) Buy an external 105MB or, 2) Buy an external case, power supply, etc. for the 40MB? If I need to buy an external case does anyone have a suggested supplier? Thanks for your help. I'd rather not fry my motherboard or power supply! Gary Pawlas grx0107@uofto02.utoledo.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 91 23:12 -0300 From: "Michael B. LeBlanc" <MLEBLANC@ac.dal.ca> Subject: How to reach Dynaware USA? Help! Does anybody know how to get email to Dynaware USA, makers of DynaPerspective? I'm a registered user. Their 800 phone number does not work from Canada, and their AppleLink addresss (X1183) is incorrect-- my message got bounced back from the AppleLink gateway. I have tried their FAX number, but they have not responded by FAX. Michael LeBlanc Nova Scotia College of Art and Design ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 91 10:09:00 EDT From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.eeel.nist.gov> Subject: Info-Mac Digest V9 #117 I want to get the system 7 stuff from ftp.apple.com. I can raise them over the net, but what is the username and password that I need to use??? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 91 18:52:58 EDT From: "Charles A. Patrick" <PATCHAS@vm.nrc.ca> Subject: Latest version of Kermit I would like to know what is the latest version of Mac Kermit available, and where. The "best" I can find is 98(63). Thank you all in advance! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 91 16:20:03 CDT From: jdw4374@cec2.wustl.edu (Jeff Wolman) Subject: Mac FileSharing and Unix FileSharing Hello to all those out in Netland! I have got a complicated question about Macs and Unix (Sun's) sharing files. At Washington University, the engineering subnet will be going to be expanding into three separate, smaller subnets. On one of these subnets will be the Macintosh lab that I manage, an IIcx AppleShare server connected to 15 Mac SE's and 5 Mac +'s thru AppleTalk. The plan is to connect this AppleShare network to the CISCO subnet via a GatorBox CS. The question I have: Is there a way that a Unix machine (a Sun) to connect to the Mac as a client (sort of reverse GatorShare (Macs mounting Unix volumes)) so it can make a mirror copy of the Mac server's hard disk? The main reason that we want to do this is to set up this "mirror" so that if the AppleShare server goes down, the "mirror" could substitute itself for the AppleShare server (an AUFS volume, I assume). Does anyone have experience in Mac to Unix filesharing, especially with regards to copying between the two platforms? Would CAP be required for the "mirror" on the Unix side? Basically, any help would be good, as I am somewhat unfamiliar in this area. Please send your replies to: jdw4374@cec2.wustl.edu or dale@cec1.wustl.edu (my supervisor in this endeavor) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 91 12:13:42 EST From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: MacIIsi Tuning (or Cache vs Color) On Fri, 24 May 91 15:27:20 CDT you said: >Kurt Behnke discovered an interest 'tuning' trick. > >Kurt writes ... >> The explanation is that the video RAM sits in the 1 M RAM bank A >> (fixed on the board), that is very busy (the more colours the busier). >> Hence access to this part of memory is very slow. >> The solution is actually very easy: Ajust the RAM CACHE to >> 768 K. As a consequence bank A is all video and RAM cache. Then >> the performance with 256 colours is (almost) as good as in Black >> and White. >> Regards, >> Kurt Behnke I tried that trick on my IIci, but Speedometer says there's no change in the performance. Since the IIci and IIsi video are twins, I'm not so sure that Kurt's idea isn't just theory. Depth gauge (a cdev I got from the info-mac archives) does permit painless switching from B&W to color, and Speedometer confirms that performance is enhanced. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 10:28 CDT From: EWINGRA@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Subject: Macintalk & Sys 7 The last I heard from Apple on this subject is that Macintalk 1.31 has not been officially supported in some time. However, it has been patched to work recently with various versions of the system software and was originally not guarenteed to work with System 7. However, it still manages to work, although Apple refuses to say for how long after this revision of System 7. All this trouble is not because Apple doesn't care about speech synthesis on the mac; far from it. Unfortuntely, Apple has little control over the situation because Apple does not own the source code to Macintalk. Apple commissioned two sound engineers who were responsible for SAM, the software automatic mouth product on the Apple II to write Macintalk back in 1983. But these two guys wanted far too much money for the source code and Apple refused to buy it. As a result, Macintalk was never improved on the Mac product, and all that Apple could do was literally hack directly on the machine language code in order to solve compatibility problems that would arise with the introduction of the Mac II family, and various systen software upgrades. As for Macintalk, the product was eventually ported to the PC by a friend of mine for a Fujitsu (I think) product back some years ago, and not much has happened to it since. --Rick Ewing Vanderbilt University ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 91 21:49 -0500 From: "C.M. Cho" <ccho@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Subject: Nisus 3.05 Bug? Many, many thanks to all those who sent their opinions about whether to buy Syst 7.0! Now, regarding Nisus: I have a bit of a problem with the layout feature. At the top the positions of the margins are indicated in inches. On the LC (with 12" monitor) the numbers look normal; however, on the si with 13" monitor the numbers look as if they've been selected from a font that is the worng size; some zero's are scrunched and of irregular thickness, etc, just as if they're something like 13 pt. Has anyone else seen this? In galley or page format the type is okay, so what gives there? All in all, Nisus is a *very* good program. It leaves Word 4.0 eating day-old dust. Thanks in advance! (Disclaimers, disclaimers.) Connie K. Cho ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 16:57:00 +0200 Subject: Questions on AFE, True Type and AppleTalk PC Hi Netters... I have 3 questions: 1) In Apple File Exchange, it is possible to save custom options. But I would like to know if it is possible to save one as a default one? I'm tired to load my option file (and search the correct place where it is) each time I run AFE. 2) I will receive a Style Writer printer soon. I have a question about True Type. I will certainly prepare several documents at home on my Mac, and print them on the StyleWriter. But, I also will take my files to my university to print them on the LaserWriter. So what's up with my True Type fonts ? Does the LaserWriter accept them ? Do the applications convert True Type into PostScript fonts in order to print them in a correct way ? I know that the Style Writer is compatible with PostScript documents (I have seen a FreeHand document with a lot of PostScript effects, and 5 PostScript fonts - Garamond, Univers, Avant-Garde, Palatino and ZapfDingbats - printed on the StyleWriter, and it was correct !!!). But will it be the same from StyleWriter to LaserWriter ? 3) I have connected my PC to the AppleTalk network of my dpt. I can print documents from Windows 3 without any problem. But I can only print a Word (dos word, not word for windows) document once on the Laser Writer. If I want to print another documents from Word, I have to reboot the printer !!! Did anybody here already have the same problem ? If yes, how can I fix it ? I thank you for any help. I will forward answers to info-mac later. And don't forget: don't worry, be Apple ! Sincerely, Steve Jordi, Dpt of Geophysics, Uni Geneva, Switzerland -> jordi@sc2a.unige.ch ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 91 23:46:43 PDT From: msimpson@alfred.teknowledge.com (Mike Simpson) Subject: Sys 7 + Plus + BLP II = ? Hi! I've just upgraded a Plus and a Classic to 7.0. They are networked together along with a GCC BLP II laser printer. Both machines have 4 megs of RAM; the Plus has a 20mHz Gemini 68030/68882 accelerator. The problem I have concerns printing from the Plus. I can print from the Classic flawlessly, but the Plus doesn't "see" out onto the network under 7.0. I tried booting the system with an old 6.0.7 disk, and it worked fine. I tried removing the entire System Folder and having the Installer work on a clean volume - no luck. (The Plus is hooked up to a Cirrus 80-meg drive, with SilverLining 5.27. Before I get howls of protest about that version, the Classic is running 5.27 on its drive, with no trouble.) I'm stumped. Can anyone help me? Mike Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 91 15:41:36 GMT From: burchil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Andrew Burchill) Subject: System 7 - Now What? In digest <9105250641.AA20678@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >Sorry to ask an obvious question, but... >I've finally finished downloading all 8 image files from >apple.com, and "debinhexing" and unstuffing them. Now >what? What should be done with the "image" files? Am >I missing an installer file? Please help. You also need to download disk copy 4.2. This program will load the disk image into memory, then let you copy the image to an 800K or 1.4Mb disk. Remember to lock the instller1 disk before (repeat) before you ever insert it into a maintosh computer. The installer1 disk has a system with no finder, inserting it into a mac will "unbless" the system if it is not locked - useless installer.. Charles >Mitch Cherniack ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 20:12 CDT From: Stark Raving <TRIMPERG@lawrence.edu> Subject: System 7 - questions/responses 1. In response to my own question "How do I Set an appp to run at startup, John Gastineau (Gastinej@Lawrence) informs me that you simply drag an alias to whatever you want to run at startup into the Startup Items Folder in the System Folder. Duh. Okay, so my brain was not working when I wrote that message. 2. I forgot who said it, but I think that it is a BAD idea for people to restrain themselves from commenting on what they like/dislike.have problems with/find cute with System7. How else are we going to get this information? Everybody sends everybody personal Email? I think not. 3. RSAUNDERS@hssi.dnet.hac.com writes: >Although 13MB is greater than 8MB, it is not enough... How true. The reason that I put 8MBs in my SE/30 was so that I would have enough RAM for my tasks. Giving up 12MB's of disk space for a measly 4Mbs extra RAM hardly seems worth it, especially with the perfomance loss. When I bought my SE/30 last year, the spec sheet said "Able to access up to 128Mbs of RAM when Higher Density DRAMS become available." Thanks to my ROMS, I am stuck at 8 physical 12 virtual (color card + interanl vid = -2MB). Maybe all the SE/30 users should get together and sue Apple for false advertising. Maybe Apple should make ggod on this spec by providing us with clean ROMS. The SE/30 is perhaps one of the best machines, as far as overall functionality goes, that APple has ever made. Now that they are emphasizing 32-bit cleanliness, they should make the SE/30 match that emphasis. >1) Kill zoom boxes. >2) Complete templates for Finder resources. >3) Make the defalt for copy floppy to hard disk be "Doit" not "Cancel". Very good suggestions, especiall 1) and 3). It is silly that someone though that a user would UNINTENTIONALLY draf a floppy icon onto a HD icon, and I hate the useless zoom boxes. Also, I sure wish that I could get rid of that balloon. 4. burton@cs.sfu.ca writes: >1. Does anybody know how to print postscript files? Dragging the ps document on top of the laserwriter driver should print it correctly. 5. Suitcases. Now that the Font/DA mover is no longer needed, how does one easily create a Suitcase file in which to keep fonts and DA's? Why would I want to do this? Simple. Suitcase II. I like to have one suitcase with "DA's", one with "Font's", and one with "FKey's and Sounds". How do I createthme now under Systme 7? (probably very obvious, but this does not appear to be intuitive to me.) Thanks, Greg Trimper - wow@look.at.the.pretty.stars. Col Dis'claimin' ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 19:06 GMT+1 From: FRICCI@polito.it Subject: Teleport Modem Does anybody have any experience with the Teleport modem from Global Village? How does the software recognize the modem? I think it has some INIT, right? Does it require the Communications Toolbox? If you have a Teleport modem, or if you have ever used one, please tell me about it. I'll summarize to net. What about internal modems for the SE? Does anybody know of any? Thank you very much, - Alberto Ricci FRICCI@POLITO.IT ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 91 15:24:36 EDT (Sat) From: tbc@spao.ao.gov (Tom Cleaveland) Subject: Troff to Mac conversions... This is probably a longshot question, but does anybody know if there's a troff to Microsoft Word (or MacWrite) converter out there that can be used with Apple File Exchange? It's a real pain in the butt to try and format troff stuff manually. Also, has Apple said when they'll start bundling System 7 with their equipment? Please respond directly, as I do not subscribe to this list. Thanks in advance. Tom Cleaveland tbc@spao.ao.gov ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 May 91 15:21:09 -0400 From: knighton@oswego.oswego.edu (Robert Knighton) Hi- The subject says it all. We have several Macs on the ethernet at our school, and need to have them use our Sun 4/280 news server for the source. I know that there is a UUCP news reader out there, but we really need an NNTP one. Please E-mail and I'll summarize to the net. Thanks ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************