Moderators.Jon.Pugh;Dwayne.Virnau;Lance.Nakata@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (07/24/88)
INFO-MAC Digest Sunday, 24 Jul 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 66 Today's Topics: Netter's Dinner re: curve fitting software Linear programming for on the Macintosh. Help locating a utility Imagewriter LQ RFI refreshing modeless dialog boxes Object-Oriented bboard? Mac-to-Data-General and back Mathematica DISKUS Presentation Planner MathType Bigscreen INIT incompatible with SE Cyrillic fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 88 12:24:45 PDT From: PUGH@NMFECC.ARPA Subject: Netter's Dinner Well, with the Boston MacWorld coming up on 11 through 14 August, it is time to start thinking about the semiannual Netter's Dinner! Getting people together should be no problem since plenty of people want to eat, but when we get 60 or so people involved, we need a very understanding restaurant with a big banquet room. Since I live in the SF area, I am not as familiar with the Boston area as I need to be. I would like to petition any netters living in the Boston area to get their fingers walking and find us an understanding place within walking distance of the hall so that we can pull this thing off. Dinner is tentatively planned for 6:30 on Saturday the 13th of August. Please RSVP to PUGH@NMFECC.ARPA so I can get an accurate head count and reserve a big enough place for us to chow. The idea has been suggested that we just make this into a real party, so if anyone is stupid enough to donate their house or other facility, then we can do that, but since we have no funding (and the group was virtually all male in January) maybe we had better stick to dinner and crash someone else's party :-) Jon "one of the elite but foolish volunteer moderators" Pugh pugh@nmfecc.arpa (415) 423-4239 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 88 13:31:34 PDT From: digiorgi@VLSI.JPL.NASA.GOV Subject: re: curve fitting software I am posting this reply for one of my colleagues here at JPL. Direct reply to my address below if this reaches you. Godfrey DiGiorgi digiorgi@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov Mon, Jul 18, 1988 ---------------- To: Dr. NORBERT MUELLER INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY A-4040 LINZ AUSTRIA Dr. Mueller was looking for curve-fitting software. While I know of no commercial packages, I have had success with Fortran programs that I found in the book: Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, P. R. Bevington, McGraw-Hill, 1969. The program I have used is GRIDLS, a non-linear, least-squares fitting subroutine that is very flexible- the only requirement is that you must be able to express the function you wish to fit to your data points as a Fortran expression. I have not programmed this subroutine on my Macintosh yet, but it works well on a VAX and I see no reason why it wouldn't work on a Mac. Good luck. Tom Farr MS 300-233 Jet Propulsion Lab Pasadena, CA 91109 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jun 88 19:18:00 SET From: EDB87003%NOBIVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: Linear programming for on the Macintosh. Date: 7 June 88, 19:17:24 SET From: Georg Moe 47-2-123050 EDB87003 at NOBIVM To: INFO-MAC-REQUEST at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD Hello Does anyone out there know about a program (public domain) for linear, integer and quadratic programming (like Lindo for the PC) for the Macintosh? Sincerely Georg Moe ____ DP Department / __ __ _________ Norwegian School of Management (___/ (___(__) / (__) PO. Box 69, N-1341 Bekkestua, NORWAY ____________________/ Tlf (+47 2) 12 30 50 ext. 232 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 88 21:03:42 LCL From: "Tony S. Dahbura" <DAHBURA%SUVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Help locating a utility Does anyone know of a way to generate apple ii assembler code on a mac? I would like to develop the code on the mac and transfer it via my serial cable to my apple ][. Is there a pd 6502 assembler for the mac? I can probably get kermit to do the transfers. Thanks for any help that anyone can give. /thanks /Tony Dahbura Reply Via : DAHBURA@SUVM (BITNET) US Mail : 262 Small Road Syracuse, NY 13210 U.S.A. Phone : 315-476-0989 ------------------------------ Date: Mon 18 Jul 88 16:42:27-EDT From: Mark McCall <MCCALL@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA> Subject: Imagewriter LQ RFI Request for any information good or bad about the Imagewriter LQ announced in Jan by Apple. The only information I have seen is a letter to the editor in the latest MACUSER. The letter was less than complimentary. A friend is buying his first MAC (an SE) and is trying to talk himself into (or out of) the LQ. Therefore any information would be appreciated. Thanks. Send repies to mccall@radc-tops20.arpa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 88 17:26:13 EDT From: gillett@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Walter Gillett) Subject: refreshing modeless dialog boxes As a novice Mac hacker, I'd like some advice on modeless dialog boxes. I have coded a very small test application (using MPW C) that does nothing but put up a modeless dialog box with three buttons. In response to clicking on the buttons, the program ("test") moves the dialog box around the screen. Everything works fine except refreshing the controls of the dialog box when it is uncovered by another window. Any portions of the buttons that were obscured do not get repainted. According to Inside Mac, the Dialog Manager is supposed to handle the update event, given the sequence of calls to IsDialogEvent and DialogSelect. (Since the buttons work, the call to DialogSelect must be successful.) I have tried calling DrawControls myself and it doesn't appear to make any difference. Note that the buttons remain active even when they are no longer visible on the screen. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -Walter ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jun 88 12:02:00 EDT From: Nahum (N.) Goldmann <ACOUST%BNR.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Object-Oriented bboard? Sender: Nahum (N.) Goldmann <ACOUST%BNR.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Everybody in Canada who is interested in the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and/or in the behavioral design research as related to the development of human-machine interfaces (however remotely connected to these subjects) - please reply to my e-mail address. The long-term objective - organization of a corresponding Canadian bulletin board. Greetings and thanks. Nahum Goldmann (613)763-2329 e-mail: <ACOUST@BNR.CA> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 May 88 09:27:28 EDT From: Mark Nickel <MNGSJ%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Mac-to-Data-General and back I am looking for someone who has experience uploading and downloading files from a Mac to a Data General (running AOS/VS 6.04). I use VersaTerm as my DG200 terminal emulator, which works wonderfully, but I cannot get the file transfer stuff to work. Is there Kermit for AOS/VS? Does anything else work? Thanks in advance for any help. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 JUL 88 08:21:45 PDT From: "Jonathan M. Levine" <VISRES.JLEVINE@CRVAX.SRI.COM> Subject: Mathematica Reply-to: <VISRES.JLEVINE@CRVAX.SRI.COM> All I read about these days in MacWEEK is "Mathematica, Mathematica, Mathematica..." What I grasp from reading the articles is that the MacWEEK staff is convinced this program is important, although they aren't sure why, and won't (or can't) explain what it does. Has this program been released? Has anyone seen it? Can I get a demo/buy a copy? How does it compare to other symbolic math software? (And how is the author getting around the trademark on the word Mathematica that the RAMIS II people own?) Answers, pointers, handles appreciated... Jonathan Levine visres.jlevine@crvax.sri.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 17:32:38 +0200 From: Jay Rolls <jrolls@bbncc-eur.arpa> Subject: DISKUS Presentation Planner Does anyone know of a source or distributor (or address of developer) where I can obtain a program entitled "Presentation Planner" by DISKUS Electronic Trading (Ingram Software Centram Distrib. Westinghouse Disk Catalog)? Any info appreciated. Jay Rolls jrolls@bbncc-eur.arpa Stuttgart, West Germany ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 13:30 EST From: <TEMPLON%IUCF.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Subject: MathType Hello Net. I've seen lots of people complain about the lack of information on MathType; the only review seems to be that in the April MacWorld (and we know how INFORMATIVE their reviews are...) and a tidbit in the latest MacUser article on DTP. Well, I just recieved a DEMO DISK, *FREE* from Design Science, of MathType, and not even really crippled; the only difference between it and the real program is that the characters are permuted upon output. Both the DA and program are included. I would post it, but the demoware agreement does not allow posting to "dial-up" boards. I'm not sure INFO-MAC qualifies as "dial-up", but I don't want to take any chances. You can recieve the demo disk *FREE* by contacting them, however: Design Science 6475-B East Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 392 Long Beach, CA 90803 ph. (213) 433 0685 If anyone knows where to purchase this program from a MacConnection-type discount house, please reply to me... it looks much better than what I have seen of Expressionist, but the list price ($149) is WAY too steep. Disclaimer: I'm just a grad student, and have never even BEEN to California. Jeff Templon Indiana University Cyclotron Facility ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 14:05 CDT From: Frank Wu <IFRA%UMINN1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Bigscreen INIT incompatible with SE Does anyone know if there is a new version of Big Screen INIT? The version (March, 1987) in the Mac archive is incompatible with the SE. I'm using Finder 6.1/System 6.0 on a 1M SE...It's works fine on a Plus with 1M, under Finder 6.1/System 6.0. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Frank Wu *** *** *** *** | | University of Minnesota * * * * * | | St. Paul Computing Services * *** * * | | *** * *** *** | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | BITNET: IFRA@UMINN1 | INTERNET: IFRA@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jul 88 16:12:00 EDT From: <brun@nrl-lcp.arpa> Subject: Cyrillic fonts Reply-to: <brun@nrl-lcp.arpa> Is there a freely available font for the Cyrillic characters (Russian)? I didn't find one at sumex, and I was wondering if there was one in the public domain. Please email replies, to BRUN@NRL-LCP.ARPA. Thanks! -- Todd Brun ------------------------------ End of INFO-MAC Digest **********************