Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (10/05/90)
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 4 Oct 90 Volume 8 : Issue 167
Today's Topics:
[*] "coffee" twin peaks sound
[*] FileUtil hqx file
[*] INITInfo 4.2 in HC
[*] inits/transline.cpt.hqx
[*] kanjitalk-sicn-rsrc.hqx
[*] Mews 1.4 - mail and news Hypercard stack
[*] Mouse Odometer v1.1
[*] shes dead Twin Peaks sound
[*] Twin Peaks sound - chocolate bunny
[*] XCMD in C++ to produce MPW spinning cusor
Ethnographic data analyzer
Go-Go Da
HARD DISK SECURITY
Help figure init clashes?
Info-Mac Digest V8 #164
Limiting storage amount on file server
Molasses
PD MIDI software
Printing problems
StuffIt Deluxe 1.01 Bug
StuffIt problems (was animated cursors)
Upload of FileUtils
UrduTalk
Using WriteNow 1.1 on AppleShare server
VAX Mass 11 --> Macintosh format
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 13:16:34 -0400
From: holden@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: [*] "coffee" twin peaks sound
The following is another sound from twin peaks..
It is: "DAMN good coffee - and HOT!".
The IBM version of this file was sent to me by cdp!ddulmage@sgi.com and I
mac-ified it.
Loring Holden - University of Rochester, Class of '92
holden@cs.rochester.edu,rochester!holdend,hold_ss@uordbv.bitnet
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/coffee.hqx; 99K]
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Date: Wed 5 Sep 90 16:51:22-PST
From: JHL%NAIF.SPAN@star.stanford.edu (Jay Lieske)
Subject: [*] FileUtil hqx file
This file contains Fortran and Pascal utilities for extracting
for archival purposes the creation/modification/fullpathnames
for any file attached to a Fortran unit.
Jay Lieske
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
jhl%naif.jpl.nasa.gov
jhl%naif.span@hamlet.caltech.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/fortran-fileutil.hqx; 45K]
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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 90 18:52:20 EDT
From: volaski@contra.med.buffalo.edu (Maurice Volaski)
Subject: [*] INITInfo 4.2 in HC
Here is INITInfo 4.2 in Hypercard format:
[Archived as /info-mac/card/init-info-42.hqx; 273K]
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Date: 4 Sep 90 10:54 +0100
From: lorin@litsun.epfl.ch
Subject: [*] inits/transline.cpt.hqx
You will find enclosed TransLine a small INIT that allows to
communicate in every Macintosh application.
TransLine will allow you to receive data in excel or to send
a letter directly from your preferred editor.
Enclosed are two files : the INIT & the manual.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/transline.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 90 18:34 CDT
From: "Ken R. Lunde" <KLUNDE@vms.macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: [*] kanjitalk-sicn-rsrc.hqx
<<< Kanji Talk SICN >>>
This ResEdit file is for changing the ICON of KanjiTalk which you
can find right end of menu bar. The original ICON is circle and
square. It's boring. Please enjoy this ICON. Following is HQX
file and you can decode this to ResEdit file using StuffIt1.5.1.
Open this ResEdit file and you can find SICN resource. Copy this
SICN and paste it to System file of KanjiTalk. Please try to do
this to your copy of System, because ResEdit sometimes causes a
fatal damage to your system. Good luck and enjoy.
This file is freeware. Distribution of this file for the purpose
of profits is absolutely forbidden. You can make a contact with
me sending your mail to one of my friend Masamichi Honda. He will
surely forward it to me.
Author:Yukihiro Ueno
My friend:Masamichi Honda <INTERNET:mhonda@ddbj.nig.ac.jp>
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/kanjitalk-sicn.hqx; 2K]
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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 90 12:13:31 +1000
From: "Charles A. Lakos" <charles@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au>
Subject: [*] Mews 1.4 - mail and news Hypercard stack
Overview
--------
Mews (for Mail and News) is a Hypercard stack for reading and posting both
mail and news using the MacTCP protocol driver. Mews communicates with
mail and news servers provided on some mainframe computer or computers.
Mail communication depends on the SMTP and POP (POP3 or POP2) protocols
supported on the mail server, while news communication depends on the
NNTP protocol (version 1.5 or later) supported on the news server. By
utilising these protocols, a user need only have a POP mailbox account
on the mail server rather than a full login account. All posting of
mail or news is validated against the password for the POP account.
Features of Mews:
* one format of message cards for both mail and news items
* one format of index cards for mail items, newsgroups, and subject list
within a newsgroup
* ability to save and recall messages to text files
* ability to print messages with a standard banner
* ability to save, recall, print, discard multiple messages with one
operation
* posting of news as opposed to mail is determined by the recipient of the
message being one or more known newsgroups
* ability to delete your own message from a newsgroup (having first been
validated against the password for the POP account)
* the handling of long messages (in excess of 30000 characters) by querying
the user whether to discard excess characters or save direct to a text file
New in version 1.4.1
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Changes since the original release version (1.3) include:
* more efficient use of space to cater for larger newsgroup lists
* better response when passwords are entered incorrectly or cancelled
* extended the timeout limit to avoid premature timeouts
* handles larger mail headers than before
* leaves SMTP, NNTP to include full date and time on messages
* prohibits typing CR in sensitive configuration fields
* new option to determine whether the menu bar is to be hidden or not
* up and down arrow keys are used to locate the next newsgroup with
unread articles
Note: The up and down arrows introduce a significant new feature:
- the first time one of them is clicked, Mews determines and marks the
newsgroups with unread articles. This is a time consuming process, but
it is only done once.
- subsequently, clicking on an up or down arrow will finish with the
current group and go to the next one with unread articles
Availability
------------
Mews is available as shown below. It is available in two forms, both of
which are Stuffit and Binhexed. The file Mews_1.4.hqx is a complete
release of version 1.4, including the updated manual. The file
Mews_Patch_1.4.1.hqx is a patcher which will modify any version 1.3 stack
and bring it up to version 1.4. The patcher is useful since it avoids
having to save the messages and the newsgroup from your current stack,
and later recalling them into the new stack.
WARNING ON USING THE PATCHER:
* BACKUP YOUR OLD STACK BEFORE PATCHING.
* ENSURE THAT YOUR STACK DOES NOT PERFORM MAIL AUTO-FETCH ON STARTUP
1. By anonymous ftp from ftp.utas.edu.au (131.217.10.1) as:
pub/mac/Mews_1.4.hqx - complete release
or as pub/mac/Mews_Patch_1.4.1.hqx - patch from version 1.3
2. By ACSNet fetchfile from diemen.utas.oz by:
fetchfile -ddiemen.utas.oz pub/mac/Mews_1.4.hqx
or by fetchfile -ddiemen.utas.oz pub/mac/Mews_Patch_1.4.1.hqx
3. From the info-mac archives (posted today - allow a month's delay)
4. From comp.binaries.mac (posted today - allow a month's delay)
Notification
------------
I would appreciate receiving email from those who are using Mews, in an
attempt to gauge its popularity. To this end the patch program encourages
you to notify me of your use of Mews, once the patching is complete. You
can accept this automated approach or reject it. In any case I would
appreciate receiving some notification.
Charles Lakos. charles@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Tasmania, Phone: +61 02 20 2371
Australia. Fax: +61 02 20 2913
[Archived as /info-mac/card/mews-14-part1.hqx; 190K
/info-mac/card/mews-14-part2.hqx; 179K]
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Date: Wed Sep 12 09:18:47 1990
From: microsoft!w-seann@beaver.cs.washington.edu
Subject: [*] Mouse Odometer v1.1
Hi ho...
The enclosed file is version 1.1 of the Mouse Odometer. A number of people
had problems with the application window disappearing; this release should
fix that problem.
Thanks to everyone who sent in reports; that made the bug far easier to
track down! The original post for the odometer follows, for those who are
seeing it for the first time.
--- Sean
This is version 1.1 of The Mouse Odometer. It is an INIT/Application
combination that keeps track, in miles, of how far your cursor travels
onscreen. The INIT quietly keeps track of the mileage; the application
displays the information in a small window.
The application runs happily in the Finder, but is really meant for background
processing under Multifinder. It remembers where the window is placed on
the screen, so you can make it a "Startup" Multifinder application and always
have the odometer dials visible.
It's a fun toy --- you'll be amazed just how far the mosue actually travels
in the course of an average week. Enjoy!
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| Sean P. Nolan | Net: Sean_Nolan@Dartmouth.EDU | "That's not a |
| Dartmouth College | | baby, that's a |
| Hinman Box 2658 | SCALP 'EM! | Mr. Potatohead!" |
| Hanover, NH 03755 | | --- A.W.O.T.M. |
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[Archived as /info-mac/app/mouse-odometer.hqx; 53K]
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 01:32:42 EDT
From: hold_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Loring Holden)
Subject: [*] shes dead Twin Peaks sound
This message and 3 after it contain a binhexed sound. The sound is from
Twin Peaks - "she's dead, wrapped in plastic"....
I got the original from cdp!ddulmage@sgi.com, which was just the data fork..
I tested and then macify-ed it. I'm sending it to sumex by request of
cdp!ddulmage@sgi.com...
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/shes-dead.hqx; 115K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 13:20:13 -0400
From: holden@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: [*] Twin Peaks sound - chocolate bunny
Another awesome sound from Twin Peaks -
"Diane, I'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies"
The IBM version of this file was sent to me by cdp!ddulmage@sgi.com and I
mac-ified it.
Loring Holden - University of Rochester, Class of '92
holden@cs.rochester.edu,rochester!holden,hold_ss@uordbv.bitnet
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/chocolate.hqx; 96K]
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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 90 14:57:44 CDT
From: Jeff E Mandel MD MS <AS01MEF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: [*] XCMD in C++ to produce MPW spinning cusor
This XCMD, written in C++, uses the MPW ToolLib routine SpinCursor to
produce the familiar spinning watch cursor. It uses the private A5 world
described in Mac Tech Note 256. Source code is included. For
noncommercial use except by prior approval of the author (me).
Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Department of Anesthesia
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA
[Archived as /info-mac/card/xcmd/spinning-cursor.hqx; 27K]
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 08:56:18 PDT
From: John_Rosborough@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Ethnographic data analyzer
One of our Faculty members has asked me if there is any software for analyzing
ethnographic data available for the Mac. Something like the MS-DOS program
"Ethnographer" is what she has in mind. Any help with this one?
Reply to userjros@cc.sfu.ca Thanks
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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 90 17:25:44 CEN
From: Geoffrey Parsons <SGPARSON%WKYUVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: Go-Go Da
The Go Go DA works by drawing a PICT resource repeatedly. The trick is
the DA seems to do amimation because it contains a large stack of bitmap
objects. Each bitmap draws over the preceding one, creating the effect
of motion. Quite simple. But the problem is the fact that it has no
this method dosn't work very well on the faster machines. If you would
like to examine this PICT, just go into ResEdit and copy it and swith
to MacDraw. Paste the PICT and the select it and ungroup it (I think.)
You can then pull off each frame of the amimation.
Geoffrey Parsons
CS Student
WKU
AOL - CyberMac
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 11:46 PST
From: Andrew McFarland <MCFARLAA%CLARGRAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: HARD DISK SECURITY
Concerning Terry Lewis's query for disk security, I use Fileguard 2.5,
by ASD Software. It is far and away the most complete security software
out now. It controls access to volumes, folders, files and applications.
It also allows detailed allotment of various access privileges to many
different users - Ideal for a University setting. You can reach ASD at:
714 624 2594
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 1990 14:10 EST
From: MORRISTA%UCMCIC@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Subject: Help figure init clashes?
University
of I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Cincinnati
Date: 04-Oct-1990 14:07 EST
From: Theodore Morris
MORRISTA
Dept: MCIC/IR&D
Tel No: 513-558-6046 V, -0758 F (Group)
TO: Remote PMDF User ( _IN%INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU )
TO: Remote PMDF User ( _IN%U1091@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM )
Subject: Help figure init clashes?
We're having some unexplained and non-reproducible system hangs among
our various Mac IIx/cxes running Oracle for Macintosh (and it's large
HyperCard shell), along with a bunch of inits (some of which are there
to test solutions to the problem!), etc.
We've cleared up a lot of problems like this in the past by watching
the net (!) for news--like the incompatibility of early WingZ and
6.0.5, for example, which could cause SUBSEQUENT applications to fail
unexpectedly.
Someone has lent us a copy of Andrew Welch's INIT Tracker 1.0 to try
out, but no one here has enough knowledge to really be able to
determine what the implications are of what the report is telling us
)-:
It would be great if someone could look this over and say, "Why,
there's your trouble right there. This init is hitting on that init's
stuff, right there." Any takers? I'd be GLAD to mail you the report
to look over...(-:
Sample: MacIIx, 6.0.5, 8M (w/Virtual '030, 5M real), Color QuickDraw,
AME (two unreproducible init names), Heap Booster, Responder,
SuperClock!, TSSnet, and ~OracleInit.
Problem: machine locks up unexpectedly, mostly in Oracle but sometimes
also in MacIRMA or other applications; found usually when student
assistant checking status of workstations finds workstation has been
abandoned (these are in a public area). Checked regularly for
viruses, etc.
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Med. Ctr. | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Med Ctr Information & Communications | 513-558-6046 W, 731-3451 H
Information Research and Development | MORRISTA@UCMCIC.OA.UC.EDU I'net
No good deed ever goes unpunished | WB8VNV NTS, U1091 AppleLink
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 14:54 CDT
From: ADUS10@jetson.uh.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #164
Hello Netlanders,
I work at a major University where we hold classes in a Mac and PC lab to
teach students and staff/faculity how to compute. We hold classes for
several popular Mac and PC applications. A sample listing will follow....
What I would appreciate is if any other university or corporation also
holds classs and or training for Mac and PC applications, would you be
willing to share the materials you use for the classes????
We are trying to rewrite and create instruction materials for classes where
we have none. If you can/will share or send me a copy of the materials
you use it would be greatly appreciated. I will send you what we have
if you like.
Courses we teach:
Microsoft Word (Mac and PC)
Virus's (Mac and PC)
Excel (Mac)
Lotus (PC)
Kermit (Mac and PC)
dBase III (PC)
MacWrite II (Mac)
Appleshare (Mac)
Novell (PC)
Procomm Plus (PC)
MacTerminal (Mac)
WordPerfect (Mac and PC)
Intro to Mac (Mac)
Advanced Mac (Mac)
Intro to DOS (PC)
Advanced DOS (PC)
Jeana C. Roges
Jeana C. Rogers (oops)
Mailing address
4800 Calhoun
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-5341
EMail
JROGERS@UHOU
Thanks much in advanced........
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 13:12:00 EDT
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1114" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Limiting storage amount on file server
Here is a (hopefully) challenging question for you all: I am setting up
a computer graphics lab where the files can get to be awfully large. We have
considered using removable drives, but the funds are currently not available.
What we do have a a file server with 720MB of storage. I would like to give
each student an account on the server so that they can dave their files there.
What I would like to do is limit the amount of storage that each student has
in their account (i.e. no account could have more than 10MB of storage).
Does anyone know of a way to do this without having to partition the drive
into 50 or so partitions? Is there a program that I can use to do this?
Reply directly to me and I will summarize for the net. Thanks in advance.
Bret Ingerman internet: ingerman@suvm.acs.syr.edu
Microcomputer Consultant bitnet: ingerman@suvm
Syracuse University phone: (315) 443-1114
Academic Computing Services
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 18:24 CDT
From: Stark Raving <TRIMPERG%LAWRENCE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Molasses
Hello All-
A long time ago I had a DA called Molasses, and what it did was to
"Lubricate" the processor with Apple Juice, Molasses, etc. In other
words, it slowed the machine down to 1/1, 3/4, 1/2, or 1/4 speed. It was
a rather simple and small DA. However, back when I owned a Plus, I
had no need for it, as any reduction in speed was painful, so I deleted
it from wherever I had it. Now that I have had an SE/30 for 6 months,
I need something to slow it down, and that DA came to mind.
If anyone has it, I would appreciate it if they could .hqx it and send it to
me or post it to info-mac.
Thanks,
greg trimper
TRIMPERG@LAWRENCE.bitnet (bitnet) - preferred
trimper@aebbs.lakesys.com (UUCP,etc) - slooooooooooooooow. not preferred.
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 20:17:22 EDT
From: jmoore@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Coup D'Etat)
Subject: PD MIDI software
Does anyone know of or posess any public domain/shareware
MIDI programs? I am particularly interested in editor/librarians
for my MT-32 and TX-81Z.
I have looked at various BBS's and have come up empty.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Jeff Moore
jmoore@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 18:52:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Vincent M. Del Vecchio" <vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Printing problems
> Excerpts from internet.info-mac: 2-Oct-90 Problems printing... Tom
> Coradeschi@pica.army (627)
> >My Mac has suddenly developed problems trying to print. When I
> >instruct an application to print, the document is queued up to Print
> >Monitor with no problems, but Print Monitor will quit unexpectedly
> >soon after the first "Looking for Laserwriter" message appears, and the
> >Mac hangs soon thereafter.
> >
> I've seen the same symptoms. What I did to correct it was to revert to
> using LaserWriter 5.2. Unless you do color/grayscale printing, there's no
> practical need for use of v6.0.1.
I know of some one who has had the same problems using LaserWriter 5.2.
The only fix that I could suggest was to turn off background printing
(since we are in an AppleShare printer spooled environment, it doesn't
help much anyway). Does anyone know of any other reasons these problems
might occur?
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 17:58:16 EDT
From: Cameron_Esfahani@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: StuffIt Deluxe 1.01 Bug
WARNING:::WARNING::: There is a problem with StuffIt Deluxe 1.01 If you have
an archive and are copying files from it to another archive using the finder
set up ( dragging the materials from one archive to the other ) you will
probably corrupt your archive. If you try to move elements of an archive
around in the same archive ( to make them alphabetically listed, for example )
you will corrupt your archive. I talked to Aladdin Software, they said they
realized this bug existed and were going to put out a fix in a few weeks.
On a lighter note, does anyone have a copy of Diamond Demo? I used this Demo
to pack some software I have. Apparently, after a few weeks, these archives
will not unpack themselves, their demo period has expired!! This is not good,
so I have copied the resources from a good archive to these un-unstuffable ones
and unstuffed them. I thought I got rid of all my Diamond archives, but I
found a disk with some stuff on it in Diamond, I need them unpacked. So does
anyone know where I can find it?? I looked here, and every other Mac archive
I could find, there is no copy of it.
Also, does anyone know of any other raytracers for the macintosh other than the
one in the archives right now? Preferably it would have color.
Thanks alot,
Cameron Esfahani (6yhn)
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 10:42 CDT
From: <MWW%TNTECH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Michael W. Wheeler)
Subject: StuffIt problems (was animated cursors)
>From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw)
>
>The animated cursors file in the info-mac archives
>(info-mac/misc/animated-cursors-4.hqx) unBinHexes OK, but my copy of
>SutffIt 1.5.1 complains about MEcursor.sit:
>
> Sorry, but that Stuffit archive is bad.
> Headers are not valid. Some archived
> files may be corrupted. Salvage what
> you can and move cautiously!
>
>If I go ahead an unstuff, YinYang III won't extract:
>
> Umm... The CRC check for
> the header of YinYang
> III has failed. The file
> may be corrupt. Use
> caution!
I get these same error messages from any stuffit archive that has
a blank password (i.e. one that prompts you for a password but doesn't
really have one). The number of these kind of submissions are growing and
I wish we could do something to correct it.
I don't understand why StuffIt is apparently requiring that people supply
a password when they create an archive. I've never been asked by stuffit
for a password when I have created an archive. Does StuffIt have a preferences
file or something that these people need to trash? Does anyone have any
answers or ideas. There are some archives that I really want but that I
cannot extract because they give me the above errors after I hit return
when I've been prompted for a password when attempting to extract one of
these archives.
Michael W. Wheeler (Bitnet: mww@tntech)
VAX/VMS Systems Support Specialist
Tennessee Technological University
Box 5071
Cookeville, TN 38505
(615) 372-3977
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Date: Wed 5 Sep 90 16:50:19-PST
From: JHL%NAIF.SPAN@star.stanford.edu (Jay Lieske)
Subject: Upload of FileUtils
I just uploaded some Fortran/Pascal file utilities
that archive any file attached to a Fortran unit. Utilities
provide creation/modification/fullpathname for archival purposes.
It's also possible to call Think Pascal-compiled libraries
>From Language Systems Fortran. It turns out that Think compiler
produces Upper and Lower case names, just as you enter them in
your program. Hence all the 'OBJ '-file entries are mixed case,
whereas MPW's Pascal/Fortran languages all use upper case names
for entries in the 'OBJ ' files. To use Think Pascal libraries,
you need to have all public (i.e. those which occur in the
interface portion of a unit) to be all caps. It's probably good
that Think libraries are mixed case sensitive, because then there's
no confusion between MPW libraries (all caps entries) and Think
libraries (mixed case).
Jay Lieske
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
jhl@naif.jpl.nasa.gov
jhl%naif.span@hamlet.caltech.edu
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 18:32:40 EDT
From: bhuttam@willow (The Nukeman)
Subject: UrduTalk
While reading news in another newsgroup, I saw a mention of version of
Macintosh OS for Pakistan in the Urdu language. It was reportedly developed by
Apple, and is called UrduTalk. Does someone has any info about it, or how to
obtain it in the USA? Also, are there any Urdu versions of popular mac software
, like MacWrite or PageMaker, available?
Along the same topic, if you check the newer system files with ResEdit, in
some of the resources, there are options for setting the date/currency etc for
a specific country from a long list. I played around with it but it did not
appear to make anything different. How does that option work?
You can e-mail directly to me and I will post if enough responses are
recieved. Thanks in advance!
===============================================================================
Bilal A. Bhutta e-mail to:
Nuclear Engineering Dept. bhuttam@woods.ulowell.edu or
University of Lowell bhuttam@spruce.ulowell.edu or
Lowell, MA bhuttab@caedc.ulowell.edu
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 08:26:36 +1000
From: pmregatt@utsmips.csd.uts.edu.au (Peter Regattieri)
Subject: Using WriteNow 1.1 on AppleShare server
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>Greetings,
>I can't seem to be able to get WriteNow 1.1 to run from our AppleShare server
>for more than one user.
>I can do this with other applications such as Word 4.0, ChemDraw, HyperCard,
>etc.
>I am using LabLaunch to monitor/control the number of users of each program.
>The server is an SE/30 and the network consists of 16 Mac Pluses and SEs.
>Does WriteNow 1.1 create temporary files that conflict with each other?
>Thanks in advance,
Peter,
I know from your postings to the net that you are very familiar with the Mac,
so what I am about to suggest may be something you have already tried.
AppleShare lets you multi-launch applications if their Shared bit is on.
ResEdit will allow you to change this. What you find is that the latest and
newer software already have the setting on.
Regards,
PeteR
>Peter Jorgensen
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>Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 10:48 CST
From: <MPARK%UTMEM2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: VAX Mass 11 --> Macintosh format
>We have a great many [VAX Mass 11] documents that need to be
>transfered to macs, and we really need a way to do it that
>retains the formatting...
While not exactly the automated approach that you are asking
for, you can probably get the job done using MakeWrite, which
should still be in the info-mac archives. If you can obtain
text-only files from the VAX that have ascii meta-commands
indicating formatting, then MakeWrite can be set up to recognize
those meta-commands and create a formatted MacWrite document.
MakeWrite does not deal much with layout, however. You will
have to add additional rulers, headers, footers, and page breaks
by hand. Usually adding a few extra tab stops to the default
ruler is sufficient to format an entire document.
Mel Park
University of Tennessee, Memphis
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