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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 30 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 115
Today's Topics:
All the news that fits, we print :-)
HyperEgine
Images to PICT
Info-Mac Digest V7 #114
Mac Moria
MandelZot 2.0
missing laserwriter pages & find file
More on mail...
Quickmail & Gatekeeper...
quit
Reply to my Questions about Allegro
Re Scientific software, 3d distortions
Socket support for Appletalk
Startup and Shutdown sounds
Using Network DiskFit v1.5 with the Apple Tape Drive
Vaccine, GateKeeper, and Servers
Vision Lab 1.0 (Demo) stuffed and binhexd
Word personalization (3 msgs)
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 22:18:46 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: All the news that fits, we print :-)
VAPORWARE
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Who Needs OS/2?
Windows 3.0 (see February's column), scheduled for release
in the fourth quarter of this year, will let MS-DOS
applications run in as much as 16 Mbytes of memory. Beta
versions require an 80386 processor, but the released
product is expected to support '286 machines as well. The
user environment is an icon-based shell similar to OS/2's
Presentation Manager. Individual applications can address
more than the 640K normally allowed by DOS using the
processor's "protected-mode." Window's also can use disk
storage as "virtual memory" on systems with less than 16
Mbytes of installed RAM. - PC Week 5 June
Real HyperCard under MS-DOS.
Spinnaker Software is beta-testing a Windows application
that gives PC users full access to Apple's HyperCard
environment. Unlike PC hypertext programs, Owl's Guide and
Bright-Bill-Roberts HyperPad, Spinnaker's program,
code-named "WildCard," will read and write Macintosh
HyperCard "stacks" (transferred to MS-DOS disks or
downloaded from on-line services). WildCard supports
full-color bit-mapped images and, because it is compiled, is
said to execute at least 40 times faster than the current
version of HyperCard. WildCard is expected to be available
in September for under $100. - PC Week 29 May
Forthcoming IBM Hardware.
As reported in this column (March '89), the 33 MHz PS/2, to
be designated the Model 75, will have an enhanced MCA bus
capable of 12 to 15 million instructions per second (MIPS)
to be increased to 35 MIPS by year's end. Along with the
Model 90 (a "tower" model designed to be a server), the
Model 75 will have banks of 15 nanosecond cache memory and a
314 Mbyte hard disk. Models 75, 90 and (80386SX-based) 35
(see April's column) are scheduled for release this fall,
and i486 versions of the 75 and 90 are anticipated in the
first quarter of next year. Next April, IBM will once again
try to appeal to the home and education market (Son of
PCjr?) with an under $2,000 80386SX computer featuring a 40
Mbyte hard disk, CD ROM, a digital sound chip, and Microsoft
Windows. - InfoWorld 22 May and PC Week 5 and 12 June
The In-House Clone.
In a last ditch effort at survival IBM's typewriter division
is rumored to be preparing to announce a product line
code-named "Blue Grass," a low-end personal computer product
assembled from imported components and priced well below the
Model 30. In short, Blue Grass will be an IBM-PC clone with
an IBM nameplate! - InfoWorld 5 June
Forthcoming Macintosh Hardware.
Apple is expected to offer a 25 MHz Macintosh IIcx (perhaps
sporting a slightly different model name) with a built-in
8-bit color video adapter and a 030 Direct slot (see
February's column), mainly for third-party cache-RAM
products, as well as three NuBus slots in October (the date
depends on the release of the required operating System
6.0.4). The new machine will allow users to add less
expensive 1 by 9 memory modules and will only cost about
$1,500 more than a similarly equipped IIcx. Early next
year, the IIcx is likely to be superseded by a less
expensive 16 MHz version of the new machine. The next
generation of the Mac II line featuring six slots of a 20
MHz NuBus implementation (double the present speed) and a 33
MHz 68030 will debut next January. A low cost Mac using the
16 MHz 68000HC processor that will be in the long delayed
lapMac (finally coming in October?) is in the early stages
of development. - MacWeek 23 May and 6 June
Multiplatform Compatibility Package (MCP).
Bawamba Software is beta testing MCP, a series of libraries
that allow developers to quickly port their Macintosh
applications to the MS-DOS, OS/2 and Unix environments. MCP
incorporates the Open Look interface, developed jointly by
AT&T and Sun Microsystems, in order to provide an
alternative to the Macintosh interface and allay developers'
fears of "look and feel" litigation. In the process, MCP
makes the Open Look interface available on the Macintosh so
that developers can design applications which look the same
across all platforms. - InfoWorld 5 June
After NeXT.
There may be a NeXT machine with a Motorola 68040 CPU
(merely a processor switch) in the interim, but the NeXT
generation on the drawing board will use up to four Motorola
88000 RISC chips and feature a 1-gigabyte Canon
magneto-optical disc with a 30 millisecond access time for
mass storage. - InfoWorld 5 June
World's Fastest DRAM.
IBM's Yasu, Japan manufacturing plant has produced sample
one megabit memory chips which are two to three times faster
than current one-megabit RAM. The experimental CMOS chip
has a 22 nanosecond retrieval rate compared to the 65
nanosecond rate of the one megabit chips recently put into
volume production at IBM's Essex Junction, Vermont plant.
- InfoWorld 5 June and Business Week 19 June
Versatile FAX.
This August Solutions Inc. will ship a custom version of its
Macintosh Backfax software for the Tefax System from
Relisys. The Tefax system integrates the functions of a FAX
(attached to a Macintosh or stand alone), a printer, a
scanner (200 dots per inch), and a modem (up to 9600 baud).
The $1,595 Tefax system uses an RS232C interface and is
compatible with any 1 Mbyte (or more) Macintosh.
- InfoWorld 5 June
Color Portables.
This month's leaders in the race to offer the first color
laptops (see last December and January's column) are Sharp,
Mitsubishi, and Toshiba. The screens are based on a
thin-film, double-matrix transistor technology which
provides high display speed and superior contrast in
comparison to previous supertwist LCD screens. At $6,000,
the 12 MHz 80286-based Mitsubishi with an 11 inch VGA screen
will have the least expensive list price of the three. The
20 MHz 80386 Toshiba T5200 also has an 11 inch VGA display
and is expected to have an $8,000 base price but cost up to
12,000 when fully configured. Sharp's 20 MHz 80386 model
8000 with a 14 inch, backlit VGA display, 2 Mbytes of RAM
(expandable to 8 Mbytes), a 3.5 inch 2 Mbyte drive and a 40
Mbyte hard disk will cost about 10,000.
- InfoWorld 29 May and PC Week 5 June
Coming Soon?
A more "Mac-like" Word Perfect (2.0) featuring most of the
features of the MS-DOS version 5.0 is slated for year-end
release. FullWrite Professional remains on schedule for
year's end, but XyMac, based on XyWrite IV for MS-DOS which
is expected in the fall, may be a long time coming. SAS
Institute plans two Macintosh statistics products for late
summer named JMP (Professional for about $500 and "Start"
for less than $100). JMP features 3-D graphics, including
the ability to rotate the graphics, and is a completely new
program rather than a port of the well-known SAS statistics
package. Letraset is considering splitting Ready, Set, Go!
into two desktop publishing products (tentatively Ready,
Set, Go! Plus and Ready, Set, Go! Professional). A new
Print Shop for the Apple //e, //c, and IIgs similar to the
recently released new MS-DOS version is in beta-test and
should ship by October.
- InfoWorld 29 May and MacWeek 6 and 13 June
Still Waiting.
More than a year after Lotus president Jim Manzi proclaimed
that Unix versions of 1-2-3 would be forthcoming the company
has not settled on a release schedule for Unix, DEC/VMS, or
IBM mainframe versions. Microsoft announced it couldn't
make the planned end-of-June deadline for shipping the
Presentation Manager version of Excel, but did say they
expected a version for Hewlett-Packard's New Wave in the
fourth quarter. Shipping of dBase IV version 1.1 has
slipped into the third quarter (Ashton-Tate's current
bug-fix and work-around file for version 1.0 filled 1,500
lines on Compuserve at the end of May).
- InfoWorld 5 and 12 June
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(This .sig "borrowed" from Johnson Earls <Jearls@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu> Thanx!)
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 07:23 EST
From: PETER CHEN <PETCHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: HyperEgine
Hi,
Thanks for many generous replies regarding my previous
question on HyperDA. One of the suggestion is to acquire HyperEngine
and compile the help stacks as units of the application. I am not
quite familiar with HyperEngine. Could somebody enlighten me on its
function? If it's possible, please also tell me where I can get
HyperEngine.
Thank you very much.
Peter Chen FSDC CCIS Rutgers University
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 10:36:34 -0900
From: DANIEL K LASOTA <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Images to PICT
Hi Everyone,
I am looking for a way to convert images that are stored in
byte format into PICT format.
The images were generated on a VAX with a fortran program
that dumped values into an array.
I would of course like to have it so that the dimensions
of the numerical array become the dimensions of the PICT in pixels.
Thanks,
Dan
Disclaimer: No one will claim me.
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 16:55 EDT
From: New from REMCO - Tabletop Fusion Kits! Be the life of the party! Impress
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #114
ACSAZ@SEMASSU, 29-JUN-1989
RE:personalizing Word
To personalize word use Fedit+ and you'll find the ownership in the
data fork.
Alex Z... . . .
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 16:39:22 -0700
From: wilson@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (James E. Wilson)
Subject: Mac Moria
>I want to convert a mainframe adventure game called Moria over to
>the Mac.
There already exists a Macintosh version of Moria, by Curtis McCauley.
It is a port of the UNIX moria 4.87 sources (of which I am the author). My
Umoria sources are based on VMS Moria 4.8, which is the latest 'official'
Moria version.
Anyways, Curtis's program is in beta test at the moment, and is currently
available via anonymous ftp from ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, in the directory
pub/wilson. There are two known bugs, both minor but somewhat annoying.
For more info on Moria (any version) send me mail.
Jim Wilson wilson@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 17:12:40 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: MandelZot 2.0
This posting contains version 2.0 of MandelZot, a program for exploring
the Mandelbrot set and its surroundings. This version supercedes
versions 1.4.1 (posted earlier this year) and 1.5.1 (distributed to a
few people via email).
The biggest change in version 2.0 is the addition of a colorset editor.
With this editor, users of Color QuickDraw-capable machines can
customize the color palettes used to display MandelZot images. The
colorsets can be stored as part of an image file, can be stored in small
stand-alone colorset documents, and can be loaded into and transferred
between different images. The colorset editor is quite flexible; many
different visual effects and coloring schemes are possible.
Other new features include support for color PostScript printers,
compatibility with 32-bit Color QuickDraw, the addition of a
virus-detector, and a few bug fixes.
This StuffIt document contains the application itself, the release notes
(in TeachText format), and a folder containing several sample colorset
documents. You'll need StuffIt 1.5.1 or later (or UnStuffIt or UnStuff
DA 1.5.1 or later) to unarchive this, as the colorset files are stored
as a hierarchically-maintained folder.
The full documentation file (in MacWrite format) follows in a separate
posting.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
[Archived as /info-mac/mandelzot-20.hqx; 123K
/info-mac/mandelzot-20-docs.hqx; 133K
/info-mac/mandelzot-20-samples.hqx; 39K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 09:50:49 -0700
From: ksc@chem.ucla.edu (Kim Cary)
Subject: missing laserwriter pages & find file
1) Our "Find File" d.a. won't work; it and the system were reinstalled from
the system tools diskette, when it was discovered that it wasn't working.
Environment: 4.2/6.0; SE w/ HD20SC. Any ideas why it just won't put up the
dialog to search for files? This is driving the operator crazy.
2) Thirteen macs on a phonenet/TOPS network; MSWord 3.01 on the individual
hard disks (each machine has one). When printing docs from the "storage
server" (80mb CMS, external) manual feed print jobs don't finish printing -
no bomb or message about problems, just missing the last few pages. Subsequent
jobs print fine. Any ideas on why? Is this likely a problem with the
LaserWriter Plus, or with the network?
Thanks for your help!
ksc@uclachem.chem.ucla.edu
...{cepu,ucla-cs}!uclachem!ksc (UUCP)
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 08:22:45 EDT
From: (David Gursky) <dmg@mitre.mitre.org> <dmg>
Subject: More on mail...
The office LAN I use will soon connect to MITRE's corporate LAN. We would like
to be able to receive out mail from Internet at our Mac's, rather than having
to go to one of MITRE-Washington mainframes. MITRE's gateway (mwunix.mitre.org)
will be a Sun 4 (I think; maybe a Sun 3) in a few weeks. How can we get the
Sun to forward mail to our Macs.
We currently run Quickmail on the Macs, but if there exists a product better
suited to the task (I understand Quickmail addresses are pretty hideous), by
all means, suggest it.
[Note: Are there any Mac mail products that conform to X.400 and X.500?]
Regards,
David
Disclaimer: Dis is soup. Dis is art. Soup. Art. (Apologies to Lily Tomlin)
David Gursky Internet: dmg@mwunix.mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive, MS Z080
McLean, VA 22102 703.883.7790
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 08:16:00 EDT
From: (David Gursky) <dmg@mitre.mitre.org> <dmg>
Subject: Quickmail & Gatekeeper...
Has anyone out there on the net encountered problems with CE Software's
Quickmail (1.0.5) and Gatekeeper (1.1). We have had a report of Quickmail
crashing on systems equipped with Gatekeeper. I have not seen this happen,
and I'm not entirely convinced that the blame lies with the interaction of
both of these as much as does with Quickmail 1.0.5.
Isn't there a Quickmail 2.0 out RSN?
Regards,
David
Disclaimer: Dis is soup. Dis is art. Soup. Art. (Apologies to Lily Tomlin)
David Gursky Internet: dmg@mwunix.mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive, MS Z080
McLean, VA 22102 703.883.7790
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 14:00 EST
From: <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: quit
Does anyone know of a large area scanner (20"x28" or
more) for the Mac?? I need at least 300 dpi but would
love higher resolution. I need a large format for map
work; I don't need gray-scale capabilities (simple 2-bit
line art).
I have been trying to do the scans in small bites and
put them together later but so far I haven't found
a software package that can deal with such big
images. If anyone knows of one I'd love to hear about
it.
Thanks for any clues..
David Elbert
Geology Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802)388 3711 x5652
Elbert@midd.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 11:15 EDT
From: "Thomas R. Ridley" <TRRRC%RITVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Reply to my Questions about Allegro
IN%"alms@spt.entity.com" 28-JUN-1989 11:55:05.78
To: TRRRC@RITVAX
CC:
Subj: Allegro Common Lisp 1.2.2 Record and Rom trap problems
This is a reply I received from Apple about my Allegro 1.2.2 Lisp problems
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 16:48 EDT
>From: "Thomas R. Ridley" <TRRRC%RITVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: Allegro Common Lisp 1.2.2 Record and Rom trap problems
>I have been starting to investigate Allegro's interface to the ROM toolbox
>but I've been having some problems and I wondered if any one out there could
>collaborate my findings.
>1. The default values for Pascal Records are not used by Make-Record. I have
>had to explicitly set the field values with rset to get anywhere.
This is documented in the release notes. It was done for speed reasons.
>2. There is no set-record function as described in the Allegro Documentation
This is also documented in the release notes. Again, the macros expand very
efficiently. If you want something to funcall, you can write a function which
encloses the macro.
> 3. The correct call for pointer addition is %inc-ptr not %inc-pointer.
Also in the release notes.
>4. Even with correct Parameter Block values, Low-Level File/IO traps often
> crash spuriously.
This isn't in the release notes. It shouldn't actually happen. Perhaps a
well-placed call to without-interrupts would help the situation. There's
probably a more 'real' solution, but I can't say from the few number of
bits I have. Again, it shouldn't be crashing.
/*Authors Note : The above problem was with a bug in my ParamBlockRec
Definiton */
> 5. There is no way to acess the "High-Level" Toolbox functions from Allegro.
That's correct. Allegro consistently uses the "assembly language interface"
described in Inside Macintosh, rather than the "Pascal Interface". On the
other hand, it also provides a much higher level interface for a variety of
things (i.e. object-oriented windows and such), so it's not all bad news.
> If anyone has had good luck doing this type of work I'd like to get in touch
> The Reason for my bypassing the Higher-Level lisp calls is mostly for speed
> requirements.
A logical bug in version 1.2 slowed down lisp file io a lot. It should be
about 6 times faster in 1.3 (due out septemberish).
Thanks in Advance
Tom Ridley
RIT Research Corp.
No problem. I don't have access to INFO-MAC (I don't think). Could you
forward this there?
-andrew shalit
apple computer
disclaimer: I'm one of the culprits who implemented the software in question.
End of fowarded message.
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Date: 29 Jun 89 08:31:00 EST
From: "ZZT" <zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Re Scientific software, 3d distortions
Re: Scientific software, 3D distortions
One possible to the question about "mutating? (?) or "torquing" molecular
images is Ball&Stick (version 2). If you build the molecule by spcifying
bond lengths and angles then you can change individual angles. This is
simplest if you only want to rotate one bond (and everything attached to it),
if you need to elastically deform the entire molecule Ball&Stick might be
difficult to use. If you have questions about the program, you can reach
Norbert Mueller in Austria (who sells it) at BITNET%"K360171@AEARN" .
Jon Tischler on ARPANET zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
or BITNET zzt@ornlstc
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Date: 29 Jun 89 18:11:33 GMT
From: andersnb@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Brian Anderson)
Subject: Socket support for Appletalk
Hi Netland,
We're attempting to port some code to the Mac II that was designed for
a Unix system and uses sockets. Has does anyone have or has heard of
a set of routines that implements the socket interface on top of
Appletalk? We would like UDP datagram support if possible. This will
run in Mac OS (no A/UX code please!). Thanks for your support!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Brian G. Anderson |
NYU Ultracomputer Research Project |||
715 Broadway Rm. 1006 |||||
New York, NY 10003 |||||
(212) 998-3346 --- //\ ---
arpa: andersnb@cmcl2 ----/ \----
uucp: {ihnp4,seismo}!cmcl2!andersnb ---- ----
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 16:20 CDT
From: <9663SUTC%MUCSD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Startup and Shutdown sounds
Hello,
How do you create a startup and shutdown sound? I plenty of sound resources
but I do not know how to use them at startup and shut down. Your help will
be appreciated!
Thanks
John Sutcliffe
Marquette University
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 08:14:24 EDT
From: Kathy S Brown <KATHY%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using Network DiskFit v1.5 with the Apple Tape Drive
Below is the original posting about Network DIskFit v1.5 with Apple's
40SC Tape Drive. Although this tape drive is not the fastest, it does
work with Network DiskFit. We have been using it here at Brown since
NDF v1.4. We too had trouble with v1.5, mostly because System v6.0.2
takes up so much room on floppy, which one needs to boot from to backup
the server. For our AppleShare servers (one a Plus and one an SE,
each with an 80 mg Hard Drive), the key was to have enough CONTIGUOUS
space on the HD for the Tape Cache file. Although its over 600k, leave
it there after the backup, so it can be used the next time. The other
important piece you need is the tape driver, ULDataStream version 2.02.
(Which I thought came with NDF v1.5 - else call SuperMac Tech Support).
The other fussy thing about DiskFit, is when to eject the tape. DO IT
ONLY when you see the eject prompt - else you may have to start all over
at rebooting! But hey - it all works and having NDF on the server for
users to use helps too.
Now I have a question. A few users have complained about their first
disk in a smartset getting corrupted. I haven't experienced this myself
but does anyone know if this is a "real" problem, and what is the
workaround? These users claim they had to do the entire backup again.
Thanks in advance.
Kathy Brown, Academic Services, Brown University
kathy@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 09:41:29 EDT
From: Joe McMahon <XRJDM%SCFVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Vaccine, GateKeeper, and Servers
> ... Does Vaccine (being
>in the server's system folder) prevent a virus from installing anywhere on the
>server? Are there special inits for servers that do this? Does Gatekeeper do
>a better job than Vaccine? Am I correct in thinking that viruses only attach
>themselves to applications and not documents? ...
Vaccine protects the system on which it is booted. Therefore, installing it on
your server protects your server. I'd recommend GateKeeper for the server,
though, as its operation is much more automatic; you tell it what you want to
allow and by whom, and it silently permits or denies access as you require,
logging any invalid accesses. There is at least one virus (INIT 29) that can
attach itself to documents.
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 08:26:24 PDT
From: GFA0009%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Vision Lab 1.0 (Demo) stuffed and binhexd
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/vision-lab.hqx; 254K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 12:36:26 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Word personalization
re/personalizing Microsoft Word: Of *course* Microsoft tells you it can't be
changed. (What would be the point of putting it in otherwise? :-)
Most of the 'personalizable' programs (Microsoft, Claris, I think
Videoworks, etc.) save the personal information in a very standard way: in
data fork of the application. Zap the data fork, and next time you boot up,
it'll ask you to customize it again.
If you don't like mucking around like that, there's a program called
"Anyonymity" available off many bulletin boards that will replace the
personalized information for you or destroy it completely.
- Alex Curylo, student, Simon Fraser University
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Date: 89-06-29 09:30:34 MEZ
From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Word personalization
No John, you are wrong |
This information does not lie in any resource fork, but in the beginning
of the data fork. First you have a length byte there, then the desired
string followes. I hope you are not going to personalize a "borrowed"
copy (*grin*).
Working with Microsoft products, you have to recognize them to be of
a strange design. The menu-resource for example is not shown in the
resource fork (although existant) and so not accessible to ResEdit.
It is just "hidden" between all the other resources and can only be
changed with a sector-editor. To me this is a problem, for the german
word-version did confuse all the command codes. Either application
>From any developer is shut down with Command-"Q", not those of Micro-
soft. They instead use Command-"B" for the german word "Beenden". Every
attempt to nationalize computer products is welcome to me, but this
is the wrong way |
With best regards,
Klaus Schnathmeier TU Hamburg-Harburg
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET> W. Germany
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 08:23:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John E. Haberland" <jh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Word personalization
I thank everybody for their help in 'repersonalizing' my Word 4.0. For those
of you who didn't see how it's done, here it is. Use a program that
recognizes data forks like MacSnoop or REdit and open the data fork. Then
using the programs' respective commands, set the EOF to zero and relaunch.
The program will then prompt you to personalize it just like a clean master
would. You can also use this method for other personalizable applications
like MacWrite, Excel, and the like.
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