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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 27 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: (Short) Preliminary conference announcement - Please post AppleII to Mac file transfer Bitmap area calc programs? IM SetDItem bug? INQUIRY Leprechaun-Demo Localtalk Specs. Macs, Suns on a network MAC to HP DESKJET DRIVERS? Mouse Scaling CDEV MPW Pascal help Postscript dumps and Rebuilding Desktop Problems with Adobe fonts Problems with SYMANTEC Thesaurus Enhancements? Transfer paper VersaTerm Pro Source Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Jan 89 14:57:00 EST From: "LFA" <lfa@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov> Subject: (Short) Preliminary conference announcement - Please post P R E L I M I N A R Y A N N O U N C E M E N T The Energy Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the United States Census Bureau have pledged support for a conference or workshop on ADVANCED COMPUTING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. The conference is tentatively scheduled for October in either the Washington, D.C. area or Williamsburg, Va. The formal call for papers will be issued next month. The most suitable papers would relate to Economics, Planning, Sociology, Geography and urban studies, transportation studies, policy analysis, or government activities. Topic areas include supercomputing, parallel processing, satellite imagery, expert systems, natural language processing, databases and information retrieval, computer networks, and innovative microcomputer applications For more information and a preliminary attendance form (electronic/paper), please contact Lloyd F. ARROWOOD Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. O. Box 2008 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA 37831-6207 Phone: (615)-574-8700 Email: LFA @ ORNLSTC.BITNET or LFA @ STC10.CTD.ORNL.GOV ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 08:24:14 MST From: dbirnbau@nmsu.edu Subject: AppleII to Mac file transfer The Apple File Exchange DOES allow you to do ProDOS-Mac OS conversions, both through AppleWorks - Microsoft Works files and regular text to text conversions (at least the one I have does....) David Birnbaum. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Find me at: dbirnbau@nmsu.edu VTIS001@NMSUVM1.bitnet /dev/null | | | | "It shouldn't be a suprise to anyone when the network screws up; | | the suprise should be that the dang thing works at all!" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:57 EDT From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Bitmap area calc programs? Hello, We're looking for a way to calculate the area of enclosed regions of a scanned bitmap. I don't think thissoftware would be too hard to write but rather than reinvent the wheel I thought I'd see if it had been done already. We are going to scan images which we then want to process to find the area of selected shapes. Thanks, Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist Computer Center Colgate University BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU APPLELINK U0523 CompuServe 74010,1353 Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742 ------------------------------ Date: Friday, 27 Jan 89 13:45:53 EST From: barnes@a.psy.cmu.edu (Bill Barnes) Subject: IM SetDItem bug? I seem to have stumbled across a minor misprint in IM 1, but common sense and a healthy dose of inferiority tells me that it's probably me. I have a dialog (loaded from a resource) whose buttons I tend to retitle and, consequently resize (before displaying). IM 1 says (p.422), "Note: Do not use SetDItem ... to change or move a control" and (p.421), "...to move a control or change its size, you would call MoveControl or SizeControl." Fine. Using MoveControl and SizeControl _does_ change the control accordingly, but then ModalDialog (among others) does not recognize the new bounds of the control. Thus if 'x' denotes the area occupied by the old button, and 'y' by the changed, and 'z' the common area, ModalDialog only senses mouseDowns in the 'z' common area. yyyyyyyyyyyyy xxxxxxxxzzzzzyyyyyyyy xxxxxxxxzzzzzyyyyyyyy xxxxxxxxxxxxx The solution is to use SetDItem to prescribe the new bounds after using MoveControl and SizeControl. This seems to contradict IM. Am I doing something wrong? -Bill _____________________________ ________________________________ \ William Henry Barnes \ / The opinions and, let's face / \ Psychology Department \ / it, groundbreaking ideas / \ Carnegie Mellon University \ / herein expressed are not / \ Schenley Park \ / necessarily those of my / \ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 \ / employers, but in all honesty / \ Phone: (412) 268-3323 \ / they probably should be. / \____________________________\/_______________________________/ --------------------Barnes@Psy.CMU.Edu----------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 14:58:57 EST From: DARRYL WOOD <DWOOD@UDCVM> Subject: INQUIRY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I AM IN DIRE NEED OF THE FOLLOWING: O THE NAME OF ALL FILESERVERS THAT CAN TRANSFER MACINTOSH FILES TO A SYSTEM THAT IS ONLY CONNECTED TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD BY BITNET. O A PRGRAM THAT RUNS ON THE MAC WHOS SOLE PURPOSE IS CON- STRCUTING FLOWCHARTS. PREFERABLE FREE OR SHARE WARE. Thank Your very much for your time Darryl Wood Technical Liazon COSDET Center ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 02:22:43 PST From: Mark Hastings <hastings%scam.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Subject: Leprechaun-Demo This posting is to announce a demonstration version of a hot new game called Leprechaun. The 'Read Me' file reads as follows: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Read Me for Leprechaun Demo, a multi-level action game. Push the pot of gold to the rainbow while avoiding the nasties! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This game supports Color QuickDraw (when available) or classic QuickDraw. Also uses extensive digitized sound effects. For on-line help, see the Help item under the Apple Menu. Commercial version will have over a hundred levels and a fully-functional editor module (available March 1, 1989). For more information, see the About Box. Requires 1MB of RAM, System 6.0 or later. MultiFinder aware. [Archived as /info-mac/demo/leprechaun-part1.hqx; 136K /info-mac/demo/leprechaun-part2.hqx; 150K /info-mac/demo/leprechaun-part3.hqx; 149K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 08:45:32 CST From: Don Davis <AEDAVIS%UMSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Localtalk Specs. Hi, I am preparing to do some work on a driver for a UNIX machine connecting to a localtalk net. The problem I am having so far is aquiring some documentati on the localtalk protocol itself. Any leads or advice would be gratly appreciat ed. thanks, DON DAVIS BITNET: AEDAVIS AT UMSVM APPLICATIONS ANALYST INTERNET: AEDAVIS AT VM.CC.OLEMISS.EDU UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI OCIS UNIVERSITY, MS. 38677 (601) 232-7206 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:30:28 PST From: doxsee@composite.stanford.edu Subject: Macs, Suns on a network I would like to include one Mac SE into a pre-existing ethernet network between Suns and PCs. The PCs are able to send postscript files over the network (w/ PC/NFS) to the Sun which acts as a print spooler for an Apple LaserWriter IInx. I would like to do the same with the Mac. Since it's likely that only one Mac will ever be hooked up to the network (Macs are many times more expensive than PC clones here in Belgium), I'm considering connecting the Mac to the network with a SCSI Ethernet connector (the slot is filled with a PC drive card) instead of a with a bridge/gateway such as Kinetics Fast Path or Gaterbox. My question is this: with a Mac connected to the network with a SCSI ethernet connector (such as Kinetics EtherSC), can I use Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP) for spooled printing on the LaserWriter connected to the Sun? Is this operation relatively simple and "transparent" to the user? Also, can the Sun be used as a AppleShare file server with this hardware and software configuration? Also, is there an expert at Columbia whom I can contact directly? Thanks for the help. Tad Doxsee Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium doxsee@composite.stanford.edu (will be forwarded) doxsee%kulmech@kulesat.uucp ** It is occasionally the curse of visionaries to see their visions fulfulled. -- author?? ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jan 1989 08:43-EST From: MENDELSOHN@a.isi.edu Subject: MAC to HP DESKJET DRIVERS? Has anyone out there any experience with drivers for the Mac-to-HP DeskJet connection? The three choices I know of are Orange Micro's Grappler LS, DataPak's Printer Interface III, and Insight's MacPrint. Any comments on handling of Mac and HP fonts, graphics (OK, I know there is no PostScript, but how is the 300 dpi QuickDraw, and is it integratable with text), and lastly, of course, what are the relative speeds? Any comments are welcome. If there is a lot of interest (there should be at $700 for the DestJet!) I can summarize. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 18:52:59 EST From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa> Subject: Mouse Scaling CDEV Here is a CDEV I downloaded from Info-Center BBS (914) 565-6696. It allows the same mouse scaling we were talking about using ResEdit to implement, last week, or so. Appears to work well. Also appears to be PD. tom c Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000 ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora [Archived as /info-mac/cdev/mouse-scaling.hqx; 10K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 12:22:40 GMT From: CS undergrad <KoehlerKF@MSA.BRISTOL.AC.UK> Subject: MPW Pascal help I am very new to both the Mac and this list. My problem may be simple, but it isn't for me. I want the output of a pascal program displayed in windows: One for the text-output, one for the graphics. I already realised that WRITELN always opens one more window where it places the output. I didn't find here any books which deal with these things, so I would like to get some information which books could help me and / or an example program, which does similar things. The program SAMPLE which comes with the MPW Pascal contains not enough information for me to get started. Please send any answers directly to me to avoid bothering the experts... Thanks, Klaus Koehler University of Bristol School of Chemistry <KoehlerKF@msa.bristol.ac.uk> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 15:18:31 PST From: jhl%naif.span@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov (Jay Lieske) Subject: Postscript dumps and Rebuilding Desktop In response to the questions asked regarding rebuilding the desktop one sometimes has problems invoking it on disk bootup because of other inits. However, since the Command-Option key brings up the Rebuild Desktop dialog at ANY time finder is entered, the easiest way I have found to do it is to hold down the Command and Option keys while selecting Quit from the menu of your favorite application. As far as reliably getting the Postscript dumps to disk without worrying about rapidly pressing cmdF or cmdK and seeing it run off to your printer instead of the disk, try this: When print dialog comes up instead of clicking on the OK button, HOLD THE MOUSE DOWN without releasing it. Then at your leisure press the Command and F or K keys and then FINALLY release the mouse. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jan 89 11:48 +0100 From: "Espen J. Vestre" <m_vestre_e%use.uio.uninett%norunix.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Problems with Adobe fonts The posted Adobe screen fonts for Avant Garde, Helvetica Narrow and Palatino contain an annoying error: The names for the style fonts do not contain a dot in its name (like e.g. ".B Times Bold"). This means that they will appear in font menus. The problem can be cured with ResEdit, you will have to change the names of the style fonts of these three fonts _both_ in the FOND resources and (through an "Open General") in the FONT resources. Espen Vestre e-mail: Dep. of Mathematics m_vestre_e%use.uio.uninett@nac.no Univ. of Oslo espen%ikaros@ifi.uio.no P.O. Box 1053 Blindern N-0316 OSLO 3, Norway ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 08:50 EST From: "I am only an egg." <JOHNSON@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu> Subject: Problems with SYMANTEC Please forgive me if this has been discussed before. I'm not a regular reader of this list. I have a problem with SYMANTEC. They bought up MAC ZAP which was working perfectly. I received the "upgrade" to SUM. The DISK CLINIC hasn't work yet in trying to recover a broken Mac disk. I have had to use MAC ZAP every time. Last July or August I called SYMANTEC. I should say I spent a week trying to get them or at least a response from them. I finally got some one who said that the version I had did have bugs that caused it to fail to recover broken disks. My name and address were taken and I was told that a version which worked would be sent to me. I'm still waiting. I'm also still using MAC ZAP because the DISK CLINIC still won't work. I'd like to get a DISK CLINIC that does more the ignore broken disks. Anybody else have this problem with SYMANTEC? Anybody else have this problem with the DISK CLINIC? Has anybody been able to get a positive response to a problem from SYMANTEC? If so, how? I've been trying to call them again but am having no luck at all. Please respond direct. Thanks much. Chris Johnson Northeastern University (617) 437-2335 Internet: johnson@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu BITNET: johnson@nuhub ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jan 89 15:11 EST From: rrenfro%tofacsa@dtrc.arpa (Richard Renfro) Subject: Thesaurus Enhancements? We do a great deal of technical writing here. One of the tools in use is the Word Finder thesaurus bundled with Microsoft Word. It's a great product, but would be even more useful if there were some way to add definitions and/or links to the database. My questions are: 1) Is there a convenient way to add entries to Word Finder? 2) If not, is there another commercial thesaurus with this feature? 3) As a last resort, is there an alternate approach to this problem? Thanks! rrenfro@dtrc.arpa 301/227-3329 Code 1401 David Taylor Research Center ------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 14:47:49 CST From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu> Subject: Transfer paper Sirs: I need information for a possible source for heat-transfer paper. I need this paper to transfer a MacVision image to say a T-shirt. I've seen it used in booths in most Malls, but forgot to ask where they bought it. Thanks Eddie@cc.msstate.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:05:55 PLT From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: VersaTerm Pro Source Many people will probably reply to the request for a source for VersaTerm Pro: Peripherals, Computers, and Supplies, Inc. 2457 Perkiomen avenue Mt. Penn, PA 19606 (215) 779-0522 The author is Lonnie R. Abelbeck of Abelbeck Software. I don't have his address or phone. ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************