info-mac-request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (04/14/91)
Info-Mac Digest Sat, 13 Apr 91 Volume 9 : Issue 86
Today's Topics:
[*] SUMMARY: Hard Disk Protection Software
[*] TidBITS#53/08-Apr-91
Accelerator cards for a Mac II
Accessing localtalk from a remote mac
afterdark-japanese
Apple II and LaserWriter
APPLE IN BRAZIL????
APPLESHARE
April 1st in the DOS-World
CAD on a Mac Classic.
color or grayscale on an SE
Deprotecting EXCEL spreadsheets
Double-sided printing with MacWrite II
Even/Odd Printing Query in Digest 82
FDHD on SE non-upgraded machines
FileEdit 1.0
FLASH-IT 2.1...Where do I reach the author?
FONT<->NFNT
Guernica stack
Info-Mac Digest V9 #81
LaserWriter 6.1 Color/BW Fix?
LC & VGA list
Looking for Nigel Perry, author of Regions for HyperCard
Mathematica software
NFS servers for the Mac
Postscript interpreter.
StyleWriter, DeskWriter and TrueType
StyleWriter and Graphics programs
TrueType and DeskWriter
Unstuffit found
WriteNow 2.2
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 15:18 EST
From: VAX Academic Support <COLMENARES%FORDMURH.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: [*] SUMMARY: Hard Disk Protection Software
Some time ago, I posted a message (reproduced below) asking for disk
protection software. Thanks to all who responded. A summary of my
findings follows my original message.
Josephine Colmenares
Fordham University
colmenares@fordmurh.bitnet
[Archived as /info-mac/report/disk-protection.txt; 6K]
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Date: Thu, Apr 11, 1991 10:31:13 AM
From: Adam Engst <ace%tidbits.UUCP@theory.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#53/08-Apr-91
[*] TidBITS#53/08-Apr-91
Index of TidBITS#53/08-Apr-91
Reviews/08-Apr-91
MailBITS/08-Apr-91 - Shareware Pay Up Day info and
corrections on Multiple Masters.
TechnoBITS/08-Apr-91 - A bunch of short bits on
emerging technologies not solid enough to warrant
their own articles
Triple Helix? - Double Helix goes to version 3.5 soon
SoftPC Moves Out - SoftPC for the NeXT, a new version
for low-end Macs, and a few rumors
SentientNET, Part 2 - The *real* networking scheme
that our April Fools Day article was based on.
Apple Does Windows - News and rumors about
Apple/Claris and the Windows market.
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tidbits-53.hqx; 33K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 16:10:47 MET
From: John Hendrickx <U211310%HNYKUN11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Accelerator cards for a Mac II
Does anyone have experience with accelerator cards (for a MAC II)?
Is it true that overheating occurs, or do other nasty things happen?
If not, which brands are recommended? Reports on your experiences
welcome (particularly nice disaster stories I can read in comfort,
in the knowledge that thanks to you, I can profit from a kinder,
gentler Mac.
John Quickxote.
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 15:38:41 MDT
From: thompson@demise.cass.usu.edu (Don Thompson)
Subject: Accessing localtalk from a remote mac
Hello everyone,
I am looking for a cheap and easy way to attach a remote mac to a localtalk
network. Something along the lines of a Shiva NetModem, except without
actually buying one. I already have several 2400 Baud modems around, and
would like to use them for this purpose.
One possibility for the remote end might be Asychronous Appletalk, available
in the sumex archive and elsewhere. With that, however, I would need a
server on the localtalk net. I have a mac plus that I could user for the
server. Does anyone know of software that would allow a mac connected to
a generic modem to be a server for Asychronous Appletalk?
Another possibility is the Columbia Appletalk Package (CAP) coupled with
Unix Appletalk Bridge (uab). This option is not feasible for me since it
requires: 1) a localtalk to ethertalk connection ; and 2) a unix machine with
a friendly sysop.
Have any other ideas?
Thanks,
Don <thompson@cc.usu.edu>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 10:33:04 bst
From: Mr Gordon S Byron <gsb1@forth.stirling.ac.uk>
Subject: afterdark-japanese
Does anybody know of a fix to make after dark ruin under the japanese
system?
G. Byron Stirling University. gsb1@uk.ac.stirling.forth
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 19:08 N
From: "jordi@sc2a.unige.ch ==> S. Jordi, Geneva, Switzerland" <JORDI%sc2a.unige.ch@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple II and LaserWriter
Hi netters,
A friend of mine has an old Apple II GS and a Mac. He has a lot of AppleII
files (Apple Works). He used to print them on an ImageWriter. Now that he
a LaserWriter connected to his Mac, he wants to know if he can use it "as
an ImageWriter". Does a driver for the Apple II exist ? In one word, can he,
>From is Apple II, emulate the ImageWriter on the LaserWriter ?
Thanks for the help.
Steve Jordi, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland -> Jordi@sc2a.unige.ch
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 06:46:31 GMT
From: morales@ohsu.edu (Walter Morales)
Subject: APPLE IN BRAZIL????
I would appreciate if anyone could help me with this questions or finding
out any other information about it.
There are people wondering about the news that Apple will enter into the
Brazilian market, this in many ways is important to me and people's
decision in what to buy when returning to Brazil.
Any information would be very welcome, if anyone from Apple has any
information about when it will happen, where the company will be located,
etc...
Please reply to my address morales@ohsu.edu .
Sincerely,
Walter Morales
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 12:20:11 BST
From: SEAN DUFFY <SCP23018%IRTCCARL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: APPLESHARE
Hi there,
We are writing an electronic mail package which will be
based on an AppleShare file server.What we would like to know is
can you tell whether a registered AppleShare user is logged on or not.
We would also like to know when a user logs on so that a message can
be displayed informing him that mail has been received. Any help
would be gratefully appreciated,
bye
Sean.
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 12:18:37 SDT
From: Alexander Falk <K360950%EDVZ.UNI-Linz.AC.AT@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: April 1st in the DOS-World
Dear Mac-friends,
Although it is adimittedly a bit late for April Fools Day Jokes, here
is one you might still enjoy. I found the following message in the
April 1st edition of the Info-IBMPC digest, which is available from
<INFO-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>:
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 02:59 MST
Sender: gates@microsoft.com
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
Approved: skull@apple.com
A message for the veteran Macintosh user, from the people at Microsoft:
Have you felt left out of recent personal computer developments? Does
it feel like the advances of the computer world are passing the
Macintosh by?
You've probably been using the Macintosh for a number of years now.
You've gotten used to the idea that a computer doesn't have to have a
cumbersome awkward interface based on obscure cryptic commands. And
you've grown accustomed to the user interface standard to which all the
other user interfaces are compared. An interface that remains
consistent across a variety of applications that really do give you the
power to be your best.
But recently, all the attention seems to have moved away from the
Macintosh. Developments in the IBM-PC world have overshadowed the
enhancements being made to your favorite computer. Macs are no longer
in the spotlight, no longer the leading edge of computing technology
that they once were.
Or so it seemed to much of the world. Until now.
Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives you even
more consistency, compatibility, and capability than you've ever known
before.
Announcing...
Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh
Yes, all the power you've come to know on your IBM PC will soon be
available on the Macintosh, too. Get all the power and function of
Windows applications like Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft
Excel for Windows, right there on your Macintosh. Now the Macintosh
user will come to know what users of Windows on the IBM PC have known
for some time now: that a powerful graphical icon-based user interface
will give you even more power to be your best than you've ever had
before!
Descriptions and Prices:
Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh: $395 Comes with Windows for the
Mac, Toolbook for Windows for the Mac, plus two exciting applications:
Write/Mac and Paintbrush/Mac
Windows for the Mac requires 4MB RAM, hard drive, AppleTalk, Mac IIfx
or SE/860, and System 7.0
Microsoft Word for Windows for the Mac $495; Word for Windows
requires 8MB RAM, hard drive, LaserWriter IINT
**upgrade for current word processor users: $129
Microsoft Excel for Windows for the Mac $695 Excel for Windows
requires 16MB RAM, hard drive, WinMac TrueType Display Manager XL,
System 8.2
**upgrade for current users of anything: $129
Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh (A/UX) $2095 Windows for the
Mac requires 32MB RAM, A/UX 5.4.3, CD-ROM, WinMac TrueType Display
Manager for A/UX, X for Windows for the Mac
Hypercard for Windows for the Macintosh (*) $249 requires Mac IIux or
Mac IIImx with 64MB RAM, 4GB disk drive, WinMac TrueType Display
Manager for the Mac or Adobe Display Postscript +)
(* - also available: Toolbook for the Macintosh -- includes
conversion tool for converting Hypercard stacks into Toolbook
applications to run on your new enhanced Mac! Also includes Toolbox
Toolbook, Toolbook Toolbox, and extra added Snap-On Tools for tear-off
menus.)
Availability:
------------
Pending favorable outcome of ongoing legal action between who-knows-who
and who-knows-why. Expected release date -- some year with a zero in
it. Void where prohibited by lawsuit. Your look and feel may vary.
(As a matter of fact, it had better!...)
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 23:30 EST
From: MCAULEY%LAUVAX01.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: CAD on a Mac Classic.
Hi fellow netters! I am an exploration geologist and would like to know if
anyone has experience using CAD programs such as MiniCad+, Generic CAD, MacDraft
and Claris CAD for use in general, or in geology. Are your experiences good
or bad? Is the Mac Classic (with 40meg hard drive and regular 9" screen)
suitable for light to medium CAD applications. Thanks for any responses.
Jim McAuley-Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 13:53 EDT
From: <RWALKER%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: color or grayscale on an SE
I am looking for information about upgrading an SE to run color or grayscale.
I have been looking into the Novy Quick030 card, which looks like a great deal,
but I have been told that it won't support grayscale monitors.
My system configuration is:
SE
4 MB RAM
external 80 MB hard drive
I want to increase speed to 20-25mhz and get a 12" or 13" RGB or a 2-page
grayscale display.
Is it possible? Has anyone tried it? Or do I have to upgrade to SE/30 or buy
a II?
Thanks in advance,
Ryan Walker
RWALKER@COLGATEU.BITNET
please respond to me and I will summarize to the net.
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 12:54:53 -0700
From: kretchma@hac2arpa.hac.com (Scott Kretchmar)
Subject: Deprotecting EXCEL spreadsheets
Does anybody know what to change in an EXCEL spreadsheet to remove
the protection??????
mail answeres to gecko%spl0@hac2arpa.hac.com
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Date: 10 Apr 91 10:20:00 MST
From: "5268 Spires, Shannon V." <svspire@sandia.gov>
Subject: Double-sided printing with MacWrite II
In V9-82, J. Zhou, "zhou@yalemed.bitnet" writes:
> Does anyone know softwares (commercial or share-/free- ware) that
> allow me to print a long document on both sides of printing paper? I
> can imagine a scheme that all odd-numbered pages are printed first,
> then the even-numbered pages in reverse order by putting the papers
> back into the paper-tray. The reason I am asking is to save some
> paper and make my desk a little less messy.
Well, I've done it in MacWrite II. If you use some other word
processor, some of this may help, but only if your W.P. supports
left/right page printing.
To print two-sided from MacWrite II onto Laserwriter:
(Laserwriter manual says it's okay to do this)
1. Set up your Page Format to do Left/Right pages and give the
Inside a wider margin than the Outside.
2. Set up a Left header/footer and a Right header/footer to display
page numbers if desired.
2.a. Do any Page Setup manipulations needed now. In Page Setup
Options, make sure there are no orientation options checked (Dogcow
should be upright, facing left).
2.b. Make sure there is an even number of total pages in the
document. This is because our first printing will be Left
(even-numbered) pages and for any given sheet of paper, its "Left"
side must be one higher than its "Right" side. Inserting a page
break after the last word is a good way to add a last dummy page.
3. Check document in reduced view to make sure sections start on
right (odd numbered) pages. If not, insert page breaks where
appropriate. Be careful about blank pages. If they don't have
something to print (like a page number in a footer) they may not
print at all and could screw up the order.
4. If using pre-hole-punched paper, load the paper tray with it so
that the holes are on the right (toward the back of the Laserwriter).
5. Open the straight-through paper tray on the Laserwriter (if
applicable for your printer) to minimize paper curling.
6. Print the document, checking the box "Reverse Order Printing"
(should already be checked) and "Left" radio button engaged.
7. After document prints, gather up the output pages and turn them
upside down, then put them into the paper feed tray. Be sure the
bottom edge of the pages enters the printer first (Yes, this is
contrary to the Laserwriter manual, but it minimizes paper jams. We
will compensate for it in the next step). The paper holes (if
punched paper is used) should now be on the right (again).
8. Set your Page Setup Options to "Flip Vertical" and "Flip
Horizontal", to compensate for the fact that we're feeding the paper
through upside down. The Dogcow should now be upside down, facing
right.
9. Print the document again, again checking the box "Reverse Order
Printing", but this time with the "Right" radio button engaged.
Check the first few output pages to be sure that the even page
number for each sheet is 1 higher than the odd page number.
10. If a paper jam occurs, use your own judgement.
--
Shannon Spires, svspire@sandia.gov
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 21:02:12 CST
From: C30008AB%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Even/Odd Printing Query in Digest 82
In response to J. Zhou, digest #82: if you happen to be printing with an
ImageWriter (which I doubt, since you mention a paper tray), there is an
ImageWriter resource archived as [/info-mac/util/even-odd-imagewriter.hqx]
which allows even/odd printing in the way you describe. Decode the file with
BinHex and UnStuff the archive. Put the file "Even/Odd ImageWriter" in your
System folder and select the Even/Odd icon from the chooser.
The author of the software, Michael Noel, says in the docs that there is a
LaserWriter version available. Unfortunately, I don't have it, and I can't
reach the author (the software is over 4 years old and his address has changed).
So this is for all Info-Mac readers: does anyone know who Michael Noel is,
and/or where he can be reached? Does anyone have the Even/Odd LaserWriter
shareware?
Mail me privately; I'll post to the Net.
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 00:57:16 EST
From: Dieder Bylsma <UOG01162@vm.uoguelph.ca>
Subject: FDHD on SE non-upgraded machines
As I failed to make contact with the original poster of the SE and the FDHD
problem, I'm posting it here.
To: COURCOUL@VMTECQRO.qro.itesm.mx
Okay, read your problem in the archives about your SE and the FDHD.
First thing's first. If your SE was made before the SuperDrive was introduced
for the SE, then you have little chance, if any, of getting your external
high-density drive of properly reading the HD disks. Why?
You must have a SWIM chip installed in your SE. What is that? An acronym for
"Super-Wozniak-Integrated-Chip", don't know what the M stands for. Anyhow,
unless you have your SE upgraded to this in order for the external drive
to be able to read HD disks. It has nothing to do with the actual
drive, but what's inside the Mac. If you want to be able to read/write
HD and SHD (2.2Mb disks), I'd suggest Kennect Technology's Rapport Super Drive,
found in most any Mac Magazine Mail order house. It will allow Macs of all
types to read in their internal drive, 720k disks, and with their
drive (external), you can read HD disks of almost any make, and also write
onto 2.2Mb disks using their equipment.
However, unless you have a penchant for spending $$$, or you have an upgraded
SE, you will *NOT* be able to read HD disks. I hope this helps.
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 17:41:12 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: FileEdit 1.0
One minor problem... Central Point Software has already used the name
FileEdit for one of the programs included in the MacTools package
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 13:02:25 EDT
From: Jason D. Blue <jblue@mwunix.mitre.org>
Subject: FLASH-IT 2.1...Where do I reach the author?
I tried sending the Shareware fee to the author of Flash-It, but Purchasing
was not able to reach Nobu Toge using the address in Flash-It 2.1.
If you can supply me with a current address, or better yet, a phone number,
for Nobu Toge, I would really appreciate it (he is not listed in
the phone book as well).
Oh, and since we are singing praise to Shareware authors who are responsive
when fees are sent, I would like to add my vote for the author of
Compactor Pro and the author of DocMaker. I sent a while ago the fee for
Moire, but have yet to see anything come of it.
Thank you,
Jason D. Blue
User Support Center Specialist
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 12:31 EDT
From: NEUBURG@campus.swarthmore.edu
Subject: FONT<->NFNT
FONT and NFNT formats are *not* the same; that is the reason for this
entire discussion. You can bring up an NFNT for editing with ResEdit's
FONT editor, but, as the warning says, if you change the width of any of
your characters, you no longer have a valid NFNT (because ResEdit will
not generate a new width table for you).
The solution is to open your NFNT as a FONT, edit it in whatever way you like,
and save the result as a FONT. Then use the excellent utility FONT->NFNT
(available in the archive) to make the new NFNT. This seems unnecessarily
clumsy, but it is the current situation. The lack of an NFNT editor in
ResEdit is just one of those annoying things, just as there is no editor
in ResEdit for a HyperCard palette.
On a related topic: someone asked the other day over this net how to change
HyperCard's cursors, noting that changing a cursor resource didn't help. This
is because HyperCard keeps its cursors in (sound familiar) an NFNT! So, you
can change the cursors, but you cannot alter their width (nor, in this
instance, the hot-spot). Instructions appear in Strange and Alley.
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 11:45:19 -0700
From: spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu (Donald R. Proctor)
Subject: Guernica stack
Does anyone know where I can get the Hypercard stack pertaining
to Picasso's painting Guernica? I read about it, I think, in
Denise Caruso's column.
Thanks, Don.
Donald R. Proctor spgdrp@ganges.ucop.edu
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 15:36:37 ADT
From: K2JJ000 <K2JJ%UNB.CA@unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V9 #81
Not to get down on this program, though. I am using it for my Ph.D.
dissertation, about 100 pages including much imported graphics, and its not
had a glitch on it yet. If you make an effort to read the manual and use
the features like style sheets and outlining, your work will be much easier
and very professional-looking. You can use multiple table of contents
levels to make separate listings of figures and tables to go with the contents.
Howzat!?!
Matthew Mitchell mitchell@nmr.biophys.upenn.edu
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I have a problem to ask aboutMS Word4. When I insert graphs into text,
the graphs looks ok on screen. But when I print it, some texts may
change position. Especially the text pasted from Macdraw. I don't have
solution except avoid makeing subscript in graphs. Do you have samilar
problem?. I tested computer from Plus, classic to IIFx, printers from
silentwriter to laserjet. The problem just randomly comes up.
Second. Is it possible to specify attribute such as bold, subscript in
find/replace window? I found I can not live without it. I now Macwrite
and wordperfect can do this.
Thank you.
Ray meng
K2jj@UNB
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 13:53:09 CDT
From: DAVE@gerga.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Subject: LaserWriter 6.1 Color/BW Fix?
Howdy!
It's great to see that Apple has changed the LaserWriter driver (6.1)
so that Black & White is now the default. The problem is, I want mine to
default to Color/Greyscale. There is no backwards-engineering - at least not
directly - of the "fix" to set BW default in 6.0x that works with 6.1. I did
a search for '377C 0017 0004' and, when the '0017' is changed to anything else
(limited set of attempted values :-) the only result is that neither is the
default. Anybody have the search & replace string for setting Color/Greyscale
as default in 6.1? I'll keep trying, and if I come up with something before I
hear from anyone, I'll post the fix.
Thanks!
Dave Martin, Geochemical Research Group/Texas A&M (also BROOKS@TAMVXOCN.BITNET)
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 12:00:58 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: LC & VGA list
Thanks to all those who responded to my query about using a vga monitor
with an LC.
Joshua Yeidel referred me to an article in a recent MacWeek which I had
somehow missed. That article referred me to another article in MacWeek
for January 22 which contained a list of VGA monitors which work with
the LC. Of course I've tossed that issue, no-one else around here seems
to have it and the library doesn't take MacWeek.
If anyone still has that issue and would send me a copy of the article,
I'd be extremely grateful: Jan 22.
Graeme Forbes
Department of Philosophy
Tulane University
New Orleans
LA 70118
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 09:23 EDT
From: NECHO%NCSUMVS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Looking for Nigel Perry, author of Regions for HyperCard
Hello,
Would any who knows the address of Nigel Perry (e-mail or otherwise)
please send me a note?
N.P.'s pubdomain software "Regions" allows HC users to define any
shape or object as a kind of HC button. We are using version 1.0b of
Regions in some university courseware and would like to know about any
enhancements for HC2.0.
Thanks, Scott Knowles <nECHO@NCSUMVS>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 08:20:33 -0400
From: paulonis@kodak.com
Subject: Mathematica software
Date: 04/11/91 07:40:52
To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
>From: Mike Paulonis (paulonis@kodak.com)
Subject: Mathematica software
I am looking for public domain Mathematica packages, especially in the area
of process control applications. Can anyone point me to individual sources
or archives. Please e-mail directly to paulonis@kodak.com. Thanks in
advance.
Mike Paulonis
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 15:19:26 PDT
From: chris@carnival.lbl.gov (Chris Moll)
Subject: NFS servers for the Mac
Now that there are lots of UNIX boxes scattered about,
many people are starting to take an interest in using
them as NFS servers. The result of my own brief research:
it's ALMOST here.
The two packages that I know of that can accomplish this
are the CAPPS library from Columbia and NFS Share from
InterCon Systems Corp. Note that my experience is using
Macs on Localtalk with a Kinetics Fastpath; things are
presumably different if you're using an ethernet card.
CAPS runs on the UNIX machine and turns it into an Appletalk
server. It seems quite solid, but it's slow, either moving
files or traversing directories.
NFS Share is a good idea that hasn't quite arrived. Version
1.0 is very unstable and poorly documented. However, it has
the advantage of requiring that it be installed only on the
Mac side; it is therefore considerably easier to set up than
CAPS.
Chris Moll chris@carnival.lbl.gov
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 18:09 N
From: BOULLART%AUTOCTRL.RUG.AC.BE@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Postscript interpreter.
Hi !
Is there someone who knows where to get the following MAC-software
The company should be called "TeleTypesetting" (or something like that).
The product is called "T-script" and is a Postscript interpreter to be used
for printing postscript-files to non-postscript printers.
The best would be to have the name,fax,e-mail (applelink) address.
Please send your answer directly to me, as I am not subscribed to this list:
boullart@autoctrl.rug.ac.be
Thanks beforehand.
Luc Boullart, State University of Ghent, Belgium.
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 21:08:41 -0400
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: StyleWriter, DeskWriter and TrueType
I haven't had any 2 minute pages-- my one-page resume (Word, TrueType) took
just over a minute, in high quality mode. A page of(continue)
graphics took less than
a minute, probably because bitmapped graphics don't take any compute time.
The paper Apple recommends for the StyleWriter is 25% cotton bond, 20 lb, which
is very expensive-- but produces beautiful results. Has anyone tried regular
20 lb bond? Laser paper is the absolute worst, as might be expected, and
regular computer paper (which costs about 1/10 as much) with the perforations
removed does quite badly, with the ink smearing with a dry finger a long while
after printing.
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 12:28:43 -0400
From: johnb@mbcrr.harvard.edu (John Bergsagel)
Subject: StyleWriter and Graphics programs
I have ordered a Classic and a Stylewriter to use at home, mostly for
communications and word processing. I am interested in a graphics
program as well, and wonder which is most likely to give good looking
output on the StyleWriter. I am interested in making precise drawings
to use in presentations made in Persuasion. I would like to preview the
results on the StyleWriter. I am used to using MacDraft 2.0 at work.
How would this work on the Stylewriter? Is QuickDraw versus Postscript
an issue? I can get MacDraw 2.0 for $144 (educational discount) but
have no experience with it. Anyone have experience with any graphics
programs and the StyleWriter? email me and I will summarize to the net
if there are many replies. Thanks.
John Bergsagel johnb@mbcrr.dfci.harvard.edu
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 12:49:28 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: TrueType and DeskWriter
Following my queries about TrueType and the DeskWriter, I have received
a number of replies. The consensus seems to be that if the StyleWriter
output looks better than the DeskWriter's on the same paper, that's due
to the StyleWriter's greater resolution. DeskWriter owners can try
TrueType anyway, if they first remove HP's printer fonts to make the DW
use Apple's.
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 09:23:16 CST
From: Greg Wimpey <GWIMPEY%TRINITY.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Unstuffit found
I posted a message a couple of days ago asking about a program for Unstuffing
files created by Stuffit Deluxe. Several people referred me back to sumex,
where I found such a program lurking in the archives. Why I didn't see it the
first time I looked is a mystery. Thanks, though, to those who responded.
Greg Wimpey gwimpey@trinity.bitnet Trinity Univ., San Antonio, Texas
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 15:39:14 PDT
From: Edward_D_Wright@cup.portal.com
Subject: WriteNow 2.2
Hello;
Quick question for users of WriteNow 2.2. I have never had the
claimed smart-quotes function work. I am running off an SE/30
using 6.0.3. Last night while I was typing I noticed that smart-quotes
is indeed working. It does not work on any other document, nor for a
new document.
What gives. It is not a problem, just curious.
As always
Ed Wright
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