biswa@faraday.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) (10/10/90)
I just downloaded Moire from the sumex archives. After debinhexing/ unstuffing, I ended up with the application and the docs, which are supposed to be Macwrite documents. However, my machine doesn't seem to know that (generic document icon, and get-info shows just document, not Macwrite document). Also can`t open the docs from either Macwrite or Word.` Am I doing something wrong? I downloaded it twice, with the same results. Any other documents which I create come up with the correct icon and are recognized by Macwrite and Word. Second question: Moire seems to work correctly, except that I can't change the sleep and never-sleep coordinates. In the control panel, I can click on the sleep location button, and move the cursor to where I want the sleep location to be. The coordinates of the cursor are shown in the control panel, and change as I move the cursor. But if I then click at a new location, the sleep coordinates return to their original coordinates (upper right-hand corner). Of course, I may be doing this wrong, but I don't know because I can't look at the docs. Any advice would be most appreciated! Background: Moire version 3.02, on an SE/30, 6.0.4, same problem under both unifinder and multifinder. Biswa Ghosh 550 Cory Hall arpa: biswa@janus.berkeley.edu U.C. Berkeley uucp: ...ucbvax!janus!biswa Berkeley, CA 94720 tel: (415) 643-6686
pharr-matthew@cs.yale.edu (Matthew Pharr) (10/10/90)
In article <28616@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> biswa@faraday.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) writes: >I just downloaded Moire from the sumex archives. After debinhexing/ >unstuffing, I ended up with the application and the docs, which are >supposed to be Macwrite documents. However, my machine doesn't seem >to know that (generic document icon, and get-info shows just >document, not Macwrite document). Also can`t open the docs from >either Macwrite or Word.` > >Am I doing something wrong? I downloaded it twice, with the same >results. Any other documents which I create come up with the correct >icon and are recognized by Macwrite and Word. I had a similar problem unstuffing stuff from FTPs and I found that if you're using Gatekeeper, you have to be sure to give stuffit privliges to change things like file type, etc.. Otherwise, you get the annoying generic document icons... Matt
earl@cogdev.cognet.ucla.edu (Earl Williams) (10/10/90)
In article <28616@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> biswa@faraday.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) writes: >I just downloaded Moire from the sumex archives. > >Second question: Moire seems to work correctly, except that I can't >change the sleep and never-sleep coordinates. In the control panel, >I can click on the sleep location button, and move the cursor to >where I want the sleep location to be. The coordinates of the cursor >are shown in the control panel, and change as I move the cursor. But >if I then click at a new location, the sleep coordinates return to >their original coordinates (upper right-hand corner). If I remember correctly, you need to define the sleep and no-sleep _rectangles_, i.e. drag from one corner to the opposite corner. Clicking results in a 1x1 pixel 'rectangle', which Moire probably treats as an error, therefore giving you the symptoms you describe. ----------------------------------------------------------- Earl M. Williams ?8-) UCLA Psychology Department earl@cognet.ucla.edu 2344B Franz Hall "No matter where you go, there you are." -Buckaroo Banzai
a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) (10/10/90)
Word 4.0 will open ANY file. Under the EDIT (?) menu, select the COMMANDS -- wait and a box showing the four thousand possible things u can do with Word opens. type an O (oh) and the box autoscrolls to the O headings. select the OPEN ANY FILE command, and then the DO box in the upper right area of the opened commands box. Better yet is to add the OPEN ANY FILE command to the FILE pull-down menu. This sure saves a lot of time when looking for copyright notices and other stuff in program files. :-)
smcguire@sloan.mit.edu (Scott McGuire) (10/11/90)
In article <28616@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> biswa@faraday.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) writes: > I just downloaded Moire from the sumex archives. After debinhexing/ > unstuffing, I ended up with the application and the docs, which are > supposed to be Macwrite documents. However, my machine doesn't seem > to know that (generic document icon, and get-info shows just > document, not Macwrite document). Also can`t open the docs from > either Macwrite or Word.` The problem is that the documentation is in MacWrite II format, not MacWrite 4.6 format, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately I don't have the facilities to do the conversion. Anyone? --Scott McGuire smcguire@sloan.mit.edu
draphsor@elaine0.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) (10/12/90)
a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) writes: >Word 4.0 will open ANY file. Under the EDIT (?) menu, select the COMMANDS -- >wait and a box showing the four thousand possible things u can do with Word >opens. You can also get this command by holding down the shift key as you select the file menu. Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf draphsor@portia.stanford.edu -- Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf draphsor@portia.stanford.edu
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (10/13/90)
a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) writes: >Word 4.0 will open ANY file. Under the EDIT (?) menu, select the COMMANDS -- Actually it's not necessary to go through the "commands" dialog to get "open any file" nor necessary to install it in a menu. Holding down the shift key before choosing open from the file menu will get "open any file" instead of plain open. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu