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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 20 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 108
Today's Topics:
Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote (and Scholar's Aid II)
ColorFinder
Converting SuperCalc Files
Epson Driver
Fullwrite footnotes
Hard Drive Quality
Help!!! Strange behavior noted while loading INFO-MAC archives...
Little black bands on color screen
MacSnap memory expansion
Mathematica university discount?
Statistical Software
Super Folders -- Folders that won't die.
Using LaserWriters with IBM machines
Using LW with IBM PCs
WANTED- pictures of military vehicles
Word 4.0, Mac Plus and Datadesk 101 Keyboard bug
Zmodem now on GEnie
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 10:02:50 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote (and Scholar's Aid II)
There is a third piece of bibliographic software: Scholar's Aid II. It
is in final beta test, the only thing lacking is the manual. There is
a demo package (handling up to twenty citations, I believe).
Scholar's Aid II does: Citations, reference lists based on your
favorite file tool (i.e. you are not locked into some proprietary
bibliography data base representation format), formatting (and simple
reformatting) of reference lists, cross references within a paper
(e.g. references to figures, chapters, tables, etc) with automatic
numbering.
Scholar's Aid II works with Word (1.05, 3.0(1), 4.0), and is available
>From Headworks Software, 19016 Ashworth Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98133,
USA. I believe the price is $55. The author (Stuart Strand) is
reachable (and available) on the net address sstrand@blake.acs.washington.edu.
-- Sigurd Meldal
SDA, just a happy customer, etc.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 08:38:13 -0700
From: rdsesq@jessica.stanford.edu
Subject: ColorFinder
ColorFinder is a startup document (INIT) which allows your applications,
documents, folders, volumes, and other icons to be displayed in full color.
This is done as a patch to CopyBits which identifies when the Finder is
drawing icons.
Done by Chris Derossi
[Archived as /info-mac/init/color-finder.hqx; 44K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 22:06:18 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Converting SuperCalc Files
If I were you, I'd first see if the newest version of SuperCalc can
save in SYLK format. If it can, then you can read SYLK files
directly with Excel and retain all formulas and formatting. If it
can't, I'm sure SuperCalc can at least save in DIF format. The
trick then is to find a program that can read DIF and save SYLK.
I'm sure there's something on the PC that can do this - maybe Excel
or Lotus 1-2-3. If none of those ideas work, you can get your text
files into shape using the Parsing feature of Lotus 1-2-3 on the
IBM, or the program Add/Strip on the Mac. I think Add/Strip is in
/info-mac/util/. Hope this helps.
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 21:38:58 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Epson Driver
>Is there some sort of driver available that can run a serial Epson
>compatible printer--public domain or at least shareware, hopefully.
>It doesn't need to have graphics capability. All it needs to do print
>text. I have access to a laser printer for the more advanced stuff.
>just need something to print drafts, or source code listings.
There are lots of Epson drivers around (two come to mind)...
- PrintWorks for the Mac from SoftStyle Inc.
- PrintLink from GDT Softworks
The SoftStyle program works very well and even though you don't
care, it supports graphic printing. Best of all, it works very well
with the fonts built into the Epson. It is not freeware or
shareware, but I've seen it advertised for US$43 from one of the big
mail order houses.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 12:26:46 PDT
From: Peggy Lerch <peggyl@ashtate.a-t.com>
Subject: Fullwrite footnotes
In response to your request for information about customizing
footnote styles in FullWrite, I found the following...
It turns out that there is a way to omit the period and
superscript the note number in the note itself, but really it's
just a workaround. If you use this workaround, however, then
subsequently insert or delete any footnotes, you will have to
renumber them all by hand:
1. Set the base style for footnotes to Superscript (select
Style-Base Styles).
2. Begin a new note (select Notes-Footnote).
3. Define a custom symbol to be the number of the note (select
Footnote-Other Symbol).
4. Set the current style to SUBSCRIPT (select Style-Subscript)
and type the note. The note number will appear superscripted
even though, in fact, the text is subscripted.
Good luck.
Peggy Lerch
Ashton-Tate
Advanced Development
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 11:06 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hard Drive Quality
Hello all. A friend of mine is about to buy an internal hard drive and we
were wondering if people out there could give us some feedback on the drive
quality. The three types he is choosing from are Ehman Engineering, Osicom
Technologies (MacBest,) and CMS Enhancements. All three of these companies
sell hard drives for very appealing prices, but at prices that low, their
quality automatically becomes somewhat suspect. I would appreciate it if
anybody who has one of these drives could drop me a line and tell me what
they think. Please post directly to me, and if needs warrant, I'll post
a summary to the net. Thank-you
Bharat Mediratta
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter Thompson
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 10:13:11 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Help!!! Strange behavior noted while loading INFO-MAC archives...
On Jun 5, 1989, R.C. Davis writes:
>Help!
>...
>I don't remember exactly the sequence of events that happened, but I think
>after trying to use Staircase...
Ricardo, I have had the same sort of problem occur, and was able to fix it on
my SE by resetting the PRAM (parameter ram). With the SE this is done by
pressing the Cmd-Option-Shift while accessing the Control Panel DA. With the
Plus the same thing can be accomplished by unplugging the Mac and removing its
battery for five or ten minutes. After restarting, you'll have to reset the
time, date, and possibly other settings from the Control Panel.
By the way, Staircase is used by hitting Control and a number from the
keyboard which (counting from left to right on the menus at the top of the
screen) will bring down the menus such as "File," "Edit," etc. without using
the mouse.
Hope this helps to solve your problem.
Don
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 03:59:13 EDT
From: "jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu (John V. Goodman)" <jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Little black bands on color screen
I wonder if anyone has seen this problem before and/or has a solution:
I have a brand new MacIIcx with 40M/5M and the extended video card;
System 6.0.3 and all that.
When using the color wheel in 256-color mode, if I change the
brightness, or the red, green, or blue with the arrows, thin (~1/4")
black braided bands, stretched horizontally across the screen, flicker
at random vertical locations. In 16-color mode they still appear, but
they are thinner.
And in 256-color mode, when I actively shift all the colors on the
screen (say, with "Animate" from !Spyro!, or rotating the color palette
in Image 1.03), I get even *more* intense flickering from even larger
black, "braided-looking" lines.
This is bugging me, since everything else works fine.
I would appreciate it if anyone knowing the cause of this could explain.
I still have the option of bringing it back under warranty.
Thanks,
Internet: jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu (John V. Goodman)
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 07:53:20 CDT
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: MacSnap memory expansion
Since the release of system 7.0 is going to require at least 2 meg of memory,
I have been looking into expanding the memory on my mac plus.
I would like to know the experiences anyone has had with using the
MacSnap expansion. Will it work with all software, or just most of it, and
will it (hopefully) work with the new finder?
Thanks!
Eddie H. Mikell
Mississippi State University
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 12:23 EDT
From: Carl R. Manning <CarlManning@life.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Mathematica university discount?
When Mathematica was announced and demo'ed in Boston (BCS-Mac), Wolfram
Research announced there would be a deal for students at universities to
get Mathematica for the Mac at a very large discount thru the
university. However, the terms the university must meet for this deal
seem overly restrictive (e.g. *every* Mac sold must be sold with
Mathematica, jacking up the price), so I was wondering:
o Does anyone know any university which has accepted the terms of the
deal, and is selling *every* Mac with Mathematica?
o Does anyone know a university which has worked out their own
private terms with Wolfram Research? On what terms are they
selling Mathematica?
Thanks,
CarlManning@ai.mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 11:35:47 CDT
From: Bill Goffe <B234WLG%UTARLVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Statistical Software
As far as statistical software goes, you might want to take a look at
RATS. It is written for serious econometric work and has many features
dealing with time series analysis. For instance, it can do ARIMA models,
transfer functions, spectral analysis, simultaneous models, as well as
maximum likelihood, probit, logit, etc. It is also programable and includes
control fetures like DO loops and WHILE. The interface is command driven,
which you may see as a drawback, but given the number of features, it is
difficult to see how one could run it with dialog boxes. Luckily, past
commands are stored and one can edit them. I don't know of anybody who
has used the Mac version, but I've got a number of friends who've used
the PC version. For advanced time series work, it seems to be the standard
among economists. While complicated, it can do most anything you want. In
reading a PC review of it, I recall where several other PC stat programs
use algorithms from RATS.
If interested, contact:
VAR Econometrics
P.O. Box 1818
Evanston, IL 60204-1818
(312) 864-8772
Bill Goffe
b234wlg @ utarlvm1 (bitnet)
The standard disclaimer applies.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 00:50:41 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Super Folders -- Folders that won't die.
In INFO-MAC V7#106, David Elbert asks about a folder that can not be
erased because the a file is busy or the folder is not empty (even
though it appears empty). A folder or a file can appear busy if an
application (program, da, or init) thinks that a file in the folder is
still there or still open. Not all applications close its files cleanly.
However, usually the problem described happens because of some
confusion (due to cross linkage) in the file allocation table. It is
usually much easier to reformat and restore from backup them to track
down the sectors that are linked to two different files.
Acknowledge-To: <KAZLOWF@PACEVM>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 13:58 EST
From: Thomas R. Blake <TBLAKE%BINGVAXA.BITNET@bingvmc.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Using LaserWriters with IBM machines
Folksies,
We've all heard horror stories about TOPS so I won't go into that. The
method we have been using here is AppleShare-PC. Using AppleShare, you can
assign a LaserWriter as LPT1-x. You can either say that it is a PostScript
printer, or that it is an Epson LQ2500. The way I set it up is...
LPT1 = Epson LQ2500
LPT2 = Postscript
The Epson emulation supports all sorts of commonly found Epson drivers,
thereby giving support to most any kind of program that walks in. And with it
on LPT1, a simple DOS PRINT command will work.
So for instance, WordPerfect 5.0 has the Apple LaserWriter Plus/NT/NTX
driver installed for LPT2. PC-Write has the Epson LQ2500 driver installed as
LPT1 etc.
The Epson emulation and such have worked very smoothly for us, and
management is quite pleased. Added bonus, you get the file services
AppleShare-PC was *intended* to provide! (Management sympathisizes with print
services, file services are another matter.)
TBLAKE@BINGVAXA.BITNET Thomas R. Blake
Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing Services
SUNY Binghamton
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 13:35 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Using LW with IBM PCs
RE: Subject: using laserwriter w/ IBM Pcs
>Are there software/hardware options that allow one to route stuff from a
>IBM PC,XT,AT to an Apple laserwriter?
An AppleTalk PC card and the software that come with it can be used connect a
PC into an Appletalk with access to the LaserWriter. Many programs require and
intermediate print file which you then send to the LW using the LWPRINT.EXE
that comes with the card. Some newer programs (PageMaker) can print directly
through the card to the LW. This card is good for programs that produce
PostScript or Diablo 630 output.
Another solution is the TOPS PC card and TOPSPrint software. This has the
advantage of doing Epson to PostScript translation, so any program that can
format for and Epson (as if an Epson is an Epson is an Epson... ;-) ) can be
used.
I've used both, alot, and prefer the TOPS, but since it costs more, we make do
with the Apple. But be forewarned... getting MS-DOS computers to talk to the
LaserWriter is the easy part.... getting them to speak fluent PostScript is
another matter.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 11:53:08 EDT
From: hinkle@brl.mil
Subject: WANTED- pictures of military vehicles
I think some of you may be sick of seeing this, but...
I want to find a source/supplier of Mac-usable pictures of
tanks and assorted military vehicles for use in presentation
graphics. I have access to a Mac+ and Laserwriter, and
Mac Paint and Draw, and soon will have "other stuff", says the
owner. I need side, front, etc, views of NATO Warsaw Pact
equipment for making overhead slides and reports. Any help
would be GREATLY appreciated, because it will be back to
REAL cut and paste if I don't find any pictures.
_______________________________________________________________
Gerry Hinkle: U. of Delaware refugee, and 2002 restoration expert
/>brl.mil
hinkle@->brl.arpa pick an address, I've been told all 3!
\>vim.brl.mil
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 20:33:10 EDT
From: nexus@shogun.us.cc.umich.edu (Joseph Nowak)
Subject: Word 4.0, Mac Plus and Datadesk 101 Keyboard bug
(This is the third time I am sending you this message.
I noticed that the second posting of this message
inadevertantly contained two offending dashes thanks
to mush mail)
There is an unresolved bug using a DATADESK INTERNATIONAL
MAC 101 keyboard with MS Word 4.0. The annoyance regards the
displaying of function key equivalents in the menus of MS
Word 4 when using a non ADB version of the Mac 101
keyboard: it just won't display them. Note that Word DOES
respond when the function key combinations are pressed on a
Datadesk, but users of these keyboards may never learn the
function key equivalents for commands without the handy
pneumonic device of seeing them each time they go to the
menus.
In Word, There is a toggle setting available under the
"Commands..." dialog box called "Show Menu Function Keys."
Even with this switch set on, Word only shows the command
keys available on the Mac Plus keyboard in the menus, not
the function key equivalents that are available from the
Mac 101 keyboard.
Calling Microsoft revealed that Word 4 checks the computer
that is being used to see if it has an extended keyboard on
an ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) port. Only then will it display
the function key equivalents in the menus. (Note that as a
result, using a Datadesk Mac 101 keyboard on an a Mac SE or
Mac II doesn't cause this difficulty. That is because the
ADB port is used to connect the keyboard.) Datadesk pleads
that there is not a way to tell Word that it has an
extended keyboard on a non-ADB port.
If anyone has come across a work around for this problem,
please let me know.
I have already called Microsoft and DataDesk International
regarding this problem. They both acknowledge the problem
but seem unconcerned about solving it. It would seem an
easy matter for Microsoft to add a switch under the
"Commands..." menu such as "Extended Keyboard in use". I
think that the problem would have a better chance of being
resolved if more owners of the Datadesk called both
Microsoft and Datadesk International regarding this
difficulty. After all, Microsoft and Datadesk co marketted
the Datadesk keyboard. I quote from the box that the Mac-
101 keyboard is shipped in, "No wonder the MAC-101 is the
only keyboard Microsoft(r) recommends for Word(r)." Let's
make them stick to their word.
Here are the pertinent phone numbers if you are interested
in calling:
Datadesk International Tech Support 818-780-1675
Microsoft Technical Support 206-454-2030
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In Real Life: Joseph Nowak
Microcomputer Consultant
U of M Computing Center User Services
Via Internet: nexus@hogun.us.cc.umich.edu
Via UUCP: uunet!mailrus!shogun.us.cc.umich.edu!nexus
Working for but in no way representing the University of Michigan.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 09:48:45 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Zmodem now on GEnie
GEnie information service just began accepting Zmodem uploads and downloads
for the Macintosh. If you don't have Zmodem abilities, check out the D/L area
here, or do a search on GEnie for the file ZTerm0.8.sit ($30 shareware).
Zmodem is _considerably_ faster than the old Xmodem and (I believe) even
speedier than CompuServe Quick-B. ZTerm provides VT100 emulation and file
transfers using X, Y, or Z Modem protocols. ZTerm also supports MacBinary
transfers and CompuServe Quick-B. An absolute must for anyone using the
national services.
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