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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 1 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 22
Today's Topics:
A New Risk (the patched version)
AppleTalk questions/answers
draft mode
Exchanges Between Apple II and Mac using 3.5 disks
gray "DRAFT" in Word 3.02
MacIRMA
options and commands
reply to 1/31 posting
SendPS
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #15
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #16
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #17
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #18
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 23:09:05 CDT
From: "Dave Zuhn" <zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Subject: A New Risk (the patched version)
Here is the Risk program, with the Mac II patches installed. It works on
my system (mac II, 256 color) and on a Mac Plus at school. Other than
the color patch, there are no changes.
Dave Zuhn
U of MN - Twin Cities
zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/game/risk.hqx; 121K]
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 15:34:49 EST
From: rht@uunet.uu.net (Randy Thompson)
Subject: AppleTalk questions/answers
> We have an AppleTalk net with some Mac+s and a LaserWriterII. We also
> have an Eathernet with some HP workstations (370 & 340). We should of
> course like to be able to use the LaserWriter from the workstations
> (including graphics). We would also like to use the disks of the
> workstations as fileservers to the Macs.
> Does any know if this is possible with Gatorbox or by some other means?
>
I would like to be able to answer your question, however, I am lacking
some information.
For example:
What Network OS are you using (NFS??).
If you are not using NFS, the only thing that the gatorbox
can do for you is be an IP router. (what do you mean, arent
you running TCP/IP??)
A little more to the point:
Currently, the GatorBox does not support remote printing, or mail
between UNIX systems & the Mac. However, the word that I have from
Cayman indicates that these features will be supported in a new
software release due out sometime towards the end of April.
I will be happy to try to answer your questions directly as I have had some
experiencve with the G-Box, but I will need a little more info.
Please feel free to e-mail me. Additionally, Cayman IS on the net. Their
address is:
uunet!husc6!bunny!cayman!________?
cant remember the last for sure.....try: support
If you are unable to get through, let me know & I will come up with a _real_
address for you.
Sorry I cant help you more!
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|| Randy Thompson || ||
|| /SMS Data Products Group, Inc. || uunet!smsdpg!rht ||
|| 12379A Sunrise Valley Drive || ||
|| Reston, Va 22091 || Voice: 703/648-9400 ||
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 11:04:22 EST
From: steinmetz!galactica!hallett@uunet.uu.net (Jeff A. Hallett)
Subject: draft mode
>I would like to make a DRAFT mode for my memos that would clearly label them
>as a draft. I once saw a tip (don't know where, don't know when) that would
>write the word DRAFT in one inch high, 25% grey letters rotated 45 degrees
>on each page of a Word document. As is recall it was only a few lines of raw
>Postscript inserted in the Postscript style of Word at the top of the
>document. Does anyone recall this procedure, or is wizard enough to just
Try this...
-------------------------------- 8< -----------------------------------------
%! Procedure to print a light-gray DRAFT on pages
gsave
initmatrix 72 dup scale
/Helvetica-Bold findfont 1 scalefont setfont
(DRAFT) dup
stringwidth pop
4.5 5.5 translate
60 rotate 2 div neg 0 moveto
.95 setgray
show
grestore
%% This overlay produces a 1 inch
%% tall DRAFT at a 60 degree angle in the center of the page.
%% The routine is self-adjusting so any string can be placed in instead
%% of DRAFT in the above routine and used.
-------------------------------- 8< -----------------------------------------
I think you'll find that this works better than the 45 degree, 25% gray
you asked for. 45 is too shallow an angle and 25% is just too light to be
noticed readily.
Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
Software Technology Program | UUCP: galactica!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| "Isn't fun like the best thing to have ever? |
| - Arthur |
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 08:13:53 EST
From: halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Bruce P. Halpern)
Subject: Exchanges Between Apple II and Mac using 3.5 disks
The Apple II files should be in ASCII format. Apple File Exchange on the Mac
will then be able to read the file (the Apple II disk should go into the
internal drive, not the external drive) and convert it to a form the Microsoft
Word 3.01 and Microsoft Works are able to use. I do this routinely with
AppleWorks text files. If you have the Beagle Bros Timeout Powerpack desk
accessory "AWP to TXT" available for AppleWorks, use it. It will eliminate the
carriage return that AppleWorks otherwise appends to the end of each line when
it prints an ASCII file to disk.
Apple File Exchange can also be used with ASCII format AppleWorks data base
files (printed to disk in ASCII format using the normal data base routines).
Such files, after translation by AFE, can be read by Microsoft Works as ASCII
files, and then converted into Works files within Works.
--
| Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca |
| INTERNET:halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITNET:D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5|
| UUCP:{vax135,rochester,decvax}!cornell!batcomputer!halp |
| PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 09:43 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: gray "DRAFT" in Word 3.02
To print a gray draft notice on every page of a document using MSWord 3.02
insert the following postscript code in the header. Format it as *Postscript
style (from the PostScript glossary supplied with Word).
%Gray "DRAFT" at 45 degrees
gsave
% saves the current graphics state.
.95 setgray
% 0 is black 1 is white
220 400 moveto
% 0 0 is bottom left (Postscript NOT Mac coordinate system)
{}mark T /Helvetica-Bold /____Helvetica-Bold 0 rf
% reencodes Mac character set in a new font (____Helvetica-Bold)
/____Helvetica-Bold findfont 72 scalefont setfont
% sets this font to 72pt size (1 inch high)
45 rotate
% rotates user space so letters are printed at an angle
(DRAFT) show
% puts the characters in the parentheses onto the page
grestore
% restores the saved graphics state
The lines here are preceeded by space characters to allow them to travel
across various gateways (i hope:) ) but should not contain the leading spaces
in actual use.
The lines beginning with percent signs are comments, as you might have guessed,
and can be eliminated.
You can also eliminate the reencoding line, if you don't intend to use "foreign"
(accented) characters. My name has one, so I always make allowances for them.
If you eliminate that line ("{}mark...") then remove the four leading under-
scores from the name of the font on the next line.
Put this code into a glossary item and you'll never have to type it again!
If anyone is interested, I'll post some other samples of PostScript code for
use in Word and FullWrite (nothing extravagant, just useful) that I have
written.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 1 Feb 89 15:44 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: MacIRMA
Date: 1 February 1989, 15:39:47 EST
From: <WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 (Theodore A. Morris)> WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: re: MacIRMA
We tested MacMainframe3270 from Avatar when we decided to go with Macs over
Model 70's, and were quite happy. When we bought, though, we were persuaded
that we ought to buy MacIRMA since we have so many MS-DOS-machine IRMA boards
already installed in the University and the IRMA software is already loaded
onto the mainframes.
I suspect it will run all right ONCE I GET THE PROPER SOFTWARE, since I have
a IIx and they are not shipping the IIx version of the software. You have to
get system bombs first and call them to find out why before they'll ship you
the additional disk "on request." After that, though, I suspect it'll work
fine...
===============================================================================
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 or WB8VNV (NTS)
===============================================================================
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'!
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 10:26:49 est
From: Richard G Brewer <tron@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: options and commands
I couldn't help but notice these distictive letters in INFO-MAC:
>As far as I understood, the MAC user interface is based on the
>principle that if you want an option, you only need to point to
>it with the mouse and click. This implies that all options,
>relevant or not in common denominator practice, MUST be visible
>on the screen, otherwise you can't point to it.
>
>We are now confronted with the situation, and the PostScript
>thing is just one example, that users KNOW something must be
>possible, but have NO MEANS OF FINDING OUT HOW they should do it.
>This is what I call 'not user-friendly'.
-----
>I'm in the same boat, but I'll add "... possible enough to look for ..."
>I'm just a _user_ and I don't have the luxury of time to experiment.
>"shift-option-4" is hard enough to remember. Imagine my dismay when I
>learned the "mouse-shift-move the bar-unshift-unmouse" commmand in MacWrite
>DAYS AFTER I had reformatted 300+ pages of text the old fashioned way.
>Ever see a rubber band around the mouse button to lock it down?
One thing that I have noticed of my fellow Macintosh users is the fact that
they seem to do all that they can to avoid reading the manuals for their
software. As programs become more and more complex, puldown menus cannot
account for all possible commands (unless you like burying your work under
menus and sub-menus), thus the reason for the option and command-shift
keystrokes. Any reputable software company (including Claris, Microsoft,
Ashton-Tate, and Adobe), includes a reference card to these commands, as do
the publishers of the popular (gulp) PC based applications. It takes no time
at all to pull out the reference card, assuming you own a _legal_ copy. I have
NO PITY for pirates...
Richard G. Brewer
Macintosh owner & Software Developer
PS - Those "obscure" commands that Ed and this other fellow were looking for
can be found on the "Macintosh Quick Reference Card" which came with their
Macs.
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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 89 08:18:54 EST
From: Kathy S Brown <KATHY%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: reply to 1/31 posting
FROM: KATHY BROWN, KATHY@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
DATE: FEBRUARY 1, 1989
RE: POSTCRIPT CODE FOR DRAFT IN WORD
MIKE JONES FROM COLOLASP ASKED...
THE FOLLOWING WAS PLACED ON OUR APPLESHARE SERVER BY ANOTHER CIS
(COMPUTING & INFORMATION SERVICES) STAFF MEMBER HERE AT BROWN.
WORKS GREAT IN THE HEADER - STYLE=POSTSCRIPT & FORMATTED HIDDEN
ONLY ONE OF OUR USERS HAS TROUBLE WITH IT, THE OUTPUT "SLIDES" TO
THE RIGHT EVER SO SLIGHTLY, HE USES A MACII, SYS V6.0.2 & WORD V3.02
- WE CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT, BUT IT WORKS FOR EVERYONE ELSE...
.page.
/Times-Bold findfont 100 scalefont setfont
wp$x 2.8 div wp$y 3.5 div translate
0 setlinewidth
52.3 rotate 0 0 moveto (D R A F T) true charpath
gsave .95 setgray fill grestore stroke
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 10:21 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SendPS
Send PS v1.1 is distributed by Abode "without Explicit Support."
Further, it's about dialog states:
" Please use it and distribute it, but don't sell it without our express
permission."
It comes with "Adobe Illustrator" and is posted in MacServe@PUCC as:
UTILITY-SENDPS-121.HQX.1 (sounds like a newer version than I have.)
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:04 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #15
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 15
Today's Topics:
Re: 68030 MMU vs 68551 {was: Virtual Memory for the Mac II}
Is Supramodem any good?
Re: Moire2.22 and GateKeeper1.0 conflict...
Conflict between TOPS 2.1 and Vaccine
Product Bulletin Board
SmallTalk/V on the Mac
MultiClip - a n-level clipboard & more.
Re: Virtual Memory INIT
Apple Announces SE/30 at MacWorld
LaserWriter II SC memory question
Information on conversion utils wanted
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: Apple Educational Contacts
Re: Versaterm question
Re: SADE (2 messages)
Re: Allocating large amounts of memory
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
MacFortran Include Errors
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
A/UX networking problem
Re: Is Supramodem any good?
Arkanoid (Spoiler)
enzyme kinetic software needed
Re: Questions about Hayes compatible modems
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
Mac-awk
Re: INIT 29: a brief description
Re: MacApp and the 68881
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-015.txt; 43K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:04 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #16
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
what fonts should I use for a Vietnamese text document?
Two Questions
memory expansion on newer SEs
SADE
The Symantec Developer's Breakfast (at 12pm)
Re: SADE (2 messages)
Stashing A5 (was Re: Help With VBL Tasks)
Write Protect Tab (was Re: INIT 29: a brief description)
Re: Programming INITs
Re: memory expansion on newer SEs
MultiFinder Problem
Re: Fast image changes
Re MultiFinder Bug (Feature)
Re: Is Supramodem any good?
Using HierDA with Coral Common Lisp
The Trackball, and the Mac that Would Not Sleep
OASYS C++ Info Wanted
Re: Aask is now out!
Re: LaserWriter II SC memory question
Virtual Memory, MaraThon 030
Fittness
Re: Two Questions
Re: New Macs
Re: ZTERM 0.7 is out!
Re: FAX
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
Re: Stashing A5 (was Re: Help With VBL Tasks)
How do you get a "Unique" Mac ID...
Staircase and LSC conflict
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
MPW and the Clipboard under MultiFinder
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-016.txt; 44K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:05 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #17
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 17
Today's Topics:
Need help with mouse pointer in A/UX 1.0
Re: Programs to launch other programs under MultiFinder
REO-650 Optical
Another WriteNow Question
Two WriteNow Questions
WriteNow widows/orphans
Re: LaserWriter II SC memory question
Any info on LaserView MONITOR from Sigma Designs?
Re: Another WriteNow Question
PageMaker Auto Flow Question
Re: New Macs
Re: SADE
Re: Re: A plea for help (double-clicking disabled in Finder...)
Re: How do you get a "Unique" Mac ID...
Re: Word format
NCSA Telnet Question?
Re: AppleTalk Info
Re: How do I tell if my MacII already has a 68551 PMMU in it?
Re: WriteNow widows/orphans
GateKeeper <-> DiskFit
Scientific Graphs
Mailing list for Cayman GatorBox users
Macintosh Revealed Vols. 3 and 4
C source examples of the new preferred AppleTalk interface?
PhoneNet advice and opinions sought ..
Keyboard stickyness
PC MacTerm/pcAnywhere III
Re: Arkanoid (Spoiler)
Looking for RGB mixer board with chroma-keying for Mac II
survey: to spool or not
Where can one get SFDriveInit [sic?]
Re: Macintosh Revealed Vols. 3 and 4
What to do with the tiny Black Hole in Uninvited?
Is Hard Drives International for real?
Re: "Application busy/missing" with newer systems
Re: Where can one get SFDriveInit [sic?]
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-017.txt; 42K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:06 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #18
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
Re: Mac II screen depth
Re: Backgrounder/Print Monitor help
Ciao, Baby!
Connecting Canon Scanner to Mac II
Backup Programs
Re: Is Hard Drives International for real?
awk on the Mac
number array -> gray-scale grid
Re: Where can one get SFDriveInit [sic?]
Editable TextItems in Dialogs - Help!
Memory Management
Re: Editable TextItems in Dialogs - Help!
Vol # of Launched APPL?
Re: How to play snds?
Funny bugs in LSC
Re: Fast image changes
Re: Vol # of Launched APPL?
Re: Editable TextItems in Dialogs - Help!
Re: Typecasting sets in LSP 2.0
Object Pascal
Re: Was there a fee for Certified Developers?
CDEF's
Keyboard on MacII
Re: A/UX Mail files
simple bug fixes in Smalltalk/V Mac
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-018.txt; 40K]
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