Date: Fri, 3 Jan 97 06:24:54 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #2 To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 3 Jan 97 Volume 15 : Issue 2 Today's Topics: [*] Airport Simulator v1.1 [*] A Mess O' Trouble v1.7 [*] Apple Electrifier 2.0 - Object-oriented Internet Animation [*] Astradyne - sans serif futurist typeface [*] BirthdayChecker 2.1 [*] Chemical Hazards [*] Days To Go 2.0.0 - count down to any entered date [*] English Italian 2.0 ITA - Dictionary [*] Font Clerk 6.2 Update Released [*] Guide to the Artists [*] Guide to the Explorers [*] InDisk 1.4 Labeless Disk Labeler [*] Netscape Bryce splash patch [*] Netscape marble splash patch [*] NetsGB 1.0 - AppleScript agent application [*] New Menu 1.0b3 adds a hierarchical menu to your Finder [*] NewsWatcher 2.1.5, a Usenet news reader [*] Ocean for Kaleidoscope [*] Ozymandias for Kaleidoscope [*] Pattern Manager 1.0 [*] PiPhilology 7.0 : A collection of Pi mnemonics in several langu [*] PPP-Connect 1.2 [*] QuickScrap 1.1 [*] ScrapIt Pro 5.23 (fat) [*] ServerMounter 1.1 [*] Smart Dubbing Pro 1.2v1 [*] SoundApp 2.2.1 [*] Styl - a decorative, futurist typeface [*] Stylin Buttons - Button graphics for web [*] Styl Round - a decorative, futurist typeface [*] Sum*It 1.0.2 [*] Technomatch: A HyperCard vocabulary game. [*] The Aeneid - Newton Book [*] URL Manager Pro 1.3v3 [*] Workin' Too Hard 1.0b1 "TIA" Survey [A] Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? [A] Guitar Tuning Program Available? [Q] Converting .DSK Images to DiskCopy for Apple II Emulators [Q] Possible to print colored MS WORD text with Imagewriter? [Q] Radius "Direct Color" Video Card Alphabet soup Announcing the 11th Annual Netter's Dinner Answering Machine Software Apple's birthday: sine qua non Desktop Windows -- What's out there? Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90 Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90 (R) Eudora Date and Time Problem: Fixed! Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? (3 msgs) Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? (A) Mac Problem Netscape 2.01 doesn't run on Mac IIcx No Powerbooks in UTAH's Stores Pictures in SimpleText (3 msgs) Removing anchors from html documents System 7.6 TERM in MAC Text to Speech in Word 5.1a Text to Speech in Word 5.1a [A] TIA? Virtual Memory Which Klone Kwery... and all that JAZ The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. Administrative queries & info: Articles for digest publication: Files for inclusion: To submit a file greater than 800K, or to avoid submitting by (and segmenting for) email, send email describing the file to and upload it to: -- username/password macgifts/macgifts at info-mac.org As with emailed submissions, non-text files must be binhexed. See our new WWW site: , where you can find all of this info and more! The Info-Mac digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Quarterdeck corporation. StarNine develops Internet server software for the Macintosh, including World Wide Web and e-mail publishing systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #2" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:13:17 -0600 From: (Miguel Frias) l41467@alfa.ist.utl.pt Subject: [*] Airport Simulator v1.1 Airport Simulator, version 1.1 By Miguel Frias This program simulates an airport. Schedule plane arrivals and departures but avoid plane collisions! The program works by itself but you can change arrivals and departures at any time. Please DO read the README file (it's short!) and reading the 'About...' dialog is a MUST! Send me your questions to mac@pobox.com as well as comments, suggestions and bug reports. [Archived as /info-mac/app/airport-sim-11.hqx; 80K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:13:02 -0600 From: (Marc Khadpe) khadpe@psu.edu Subject: [*] A Mess O' Trouble v1.7 "...if a detailed, nonlinear plot, plenty of puzzles to solve and strange worlds to explore are what counts with you, you're in luck, because Trouble provides that -- at a rock bottom price. Everything from the graphics to the gameplay to the written descriptions of the rooms is of professional quality." -- Mac Home Journal, October 1994 A Mess O'Trouble is a multi-layered, richly-textured graphic adventure game that will keep you entertained for days or even weeks. (And you don't have to know anything about the first game to play this one.) A Mess O'Trouble keeps violence to a minimum, without being boring, insipid or "politically correct". Even when defeating the most villianous creatures you will use your brain more than your gun. A Mess O'Trouble takes place in the twisted worlds of Ray's Maze, a multi-dimensional spacial anomaly. Explore old mines and search for lost gold in an authentic Nevada ghost town. Learn the secrets of Techtron artifacts in the Void. Escape from the mysterious Isle of Lucy. Battle bureaucratic bungling in Monolith City, and discover the weirdness and wonders of the Enchanted Forest. The result of over 1000 hours of work, this game includes 137 sounds (including 105 new sounds!), 300 scenes, dozens of characters, more than 1400 objects, and some of the best black & white graphics you've ever seen. All this AND plenty of wit and humor too! A Mess O' Trouble should run on any Mac OS computer running System 3 or higher. Sounds may not work on the Macintosh XL or any AV or PowerPC Mac. Version 1.7 adds special fix codes to allow people who have trapped themselves in an untenable situation to finish the game. Email the author for more information. The author is Ray Dunakin (raydunakin@aol.com), and he asks for a $10 shareware fee if you like and keep the game. [Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/a-mess-o-trouble-17.hqx; 1893K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:47:24 -0800 From: ssample@larisoftware.com (Stephen Sample) Subject: [*] Apple Electrifier 2.0 - Object-oriented Internet Animation Apple Electrifier is an Internet graphics and animation solution based on Mac OS Graphics technology from Apple Computer, Inc. The Electrifier playback software lets users view large-scale object-oriented graphics and animation in as little as 1K, allowing rapid download over the Internet. These low-bandwidth object-oriented animations can be hundreds of times smaller in size than equivalent bitmap animations. Future releases will add support for Apple Electrifier graphics and animation within QuickTime(R) movies, and take advantage of Java and other complementary technologies. Apple Electrifier is currently available as a plug-in for Netscape Navigator and Navigator-compatible browsers. Example animations and authoring tools are available at Apple Electrifier requires System 7.5. Version 2.0 is PowerPC-only, but a 68k version is under development. Ta, -Stephen [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/ntscp/apple-electrifier-20.hqx; 1915K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:13:04 -0600 From: (Rev. Feorag NicBhride) feorag@antipope.demon.co.uk Subject: [*] Astradyne - sans serif futurist typeface Astradyne is a typeface inspired by the lettering on the cover of Ultravox's 1980 _Vienna_ album. The archive contains both PostScript Type 1 and TrueType versions. Astradyne is freeware and may be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. --- feorag@antipope.demon.co.uk [Archived as /info-mac/font/astradyne.hqx; 69K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:59:41 -0600 From: (Benno Eberle) 101360.2125@compuserve.com Subject: [*] BirthdayChecker 2.1 BirthdayChecker 2.1 ------------------ BirthdayChecker is a small and ultra fast program which scans a TEXT-file and searches for birthdays which will be interesting in the next few days. If you put an alias in the startup-folder, your mac will check the birthdays every day for you! The number of days to warn before is adjustable. In the same way you can choose, if you want to use the German-date-format (DD.MM) or the American-format (MM.DD). The header displayed in the birthday window and the width of the window is adjustable,too. Also the maximum number of starts per day. It's a FAT version so it runs fast in both Mac worlds (680x0 and PowerPC). Hope you'll enjoy it! 1.6 [15.12.95] Fixed a bug so the automatic termination of the program is now working correctly. No more a Fat version but two seperate versions for both processor types for a better using of memory and performance. Added the option "E" for "Europe"- Date-Format so you can use the English titles with the old "German" date format! Fixed a stupid bug in the calculate age procedure! Fixed a bug which prevents to recognize events occuring in the next year! 2.0 [24.02.96] Partly new written code. Complete new interface for adjusting parameters. Handling is now a little bit more Mac-like! New functions. Minor bugfixes. 2.01 Fixed a silly bug which sometimes bring out a registration box although it is registered. 2.02 New email address. Recompiled with CW8. 2.1 Sound and volume can now be adjusted. Remembers window position. [Archived as /info-mac/data/birthday-checker-21.hqx; 185K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:46:42 -0800 From: j5rson@prairie.lakes.com (Jeffrey D. Iverson) Subject: [*] Chemical Hazards HyperCard Stack - A listing of hazardous chemicals and their effects. Jeffrey D. Iverson 507.386.6208 weekdays Iverson Software Co. 507.625.7355 evening/weekend 522 Record St. j5rson@prairie.lakes.com Mankato MN 56001-2546 http://prairie.lakes.com/~j5rson/ [Archived as /info-mac/sci/chemical-hazards-hc.hqx; 152K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:48:08 -0800 From: midnight@kagi.com (Jason Anderson) Subject: [*] Days To Go 2.0.0 - count down to any entered date Shareware $10 Are you someone who gets really annoyed at those people who always seem to know how many days it is until a certain event (ie: "Hi John, did you know it's only 278 more days to my birthday? Better make sure you buy me a present!"). Well, if you can't beat them, join them. This handy little application and extension combination will let you do just that. Every time you restart your computer, a message will appear on the screen telling you how many days there are until/since the dates you have entered. Use it to annoy your friends, count down to Christmas, remind yourself of anniversaries, or to know how much longer that someone special in your life is going to be away. Version 2.0.0 allows the user to enter multiple dates, to show the number of days since a date in the past, and to change the position of the message on the screen at startup. Beyond Midnight Software email: midnight@kagi.com WWW: http://www.vision.net.au/~midnight [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/days-to-go-200.hqx; 144K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:48:50 -0800 From: ivan@dns.netanday.it (Ivan Gobbo) Subject: [*] English Italian 2.0 ITA - Dictionary Hi, with the present we send to you English Italian 2.0 ITA. English Italian is a English/Italian dictionary distributed as shareware. If you have English Text-to-Speech installed you can listen to English Italian read to you. English Italian works under System 7.0 or newer. Thank you for your interest and help, Ivan Gobbo e Sabrina Tamos eMail: ivan@mbox.netanday.it P.S. This shareware version of English Italian 2.0 may be freely included on the commercially available CD-ROM of the archives. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/english-italian-20-ita.hqx; 1050K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:13:07 -0600 From: (Robert Chancellor) creality@earthlink.net Subject: [*] Font Clerk 6.2 Update Released =46ont Clerk 6.2 is a complete font management utility. It provides the capabilities to view an entire character set, find key sequences for those special characters, collect font specs for a given point size, obtain general information about your system and it's configuration, and generate reports and font lists for easy reference. =46ont Clerk 6.2 can be extended through the use of a drop folder called "FC Scripts =FC". AppleScripts dropped in to Font Clerk's "FC Scripts =FC" directory, appear in it's "Scripts" menu, allowing the user to expand the capabilities of Font Clerk. As Apple extends AppleScript, new capabilities can easily be added through the use of these scripts. System requirements: Font Clerk 6.2 will run on any Macintosh running System 7.0 or later (System 7.5 recommended). It supports both color and black & white monitors. CHANGE HISTORY Version 6.2 ---------- Now works with Suitcase 3.0 properly New Text Preview window to preview sample text You can now customize display colors in Preferences dialog Fixed a printing bug that prevented Imagewriter printing from working properly Fixed a printing bug that caused lossed data with older LaserWriter drivers [Archived as /info-mac/font/util/font-clerk-62.hqx; 465K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:46:59 -0800 From: j5rson@prairie.lakes.com (Jeffrey D. Iverson) Subject: [*] Guide to the Artists A listing of over 620 artists, with brief biographical sketches of each, in a HyperCard stack. [Archived as /info-mac/art/book/guide-to-the-artists-hc.hqx; 572K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:46:55 -0800 From: j5rson@prairie.lakes.com (Jeffrey D. Iverson) Subject: [*] Guide to the Explorers A listing of major world explorers, with a brief biographical sketch of each, in a HyperCard stack. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/guide-to-the-explorers-hc.hqx; 99K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:47:50 -0800 From: wedschro@warwick.net (Warren Schroeder) Subject: [*] InDisk 1.4 Labeless Disk Labeler This is a full feature trial version of InDisk 1.4. It is used to "catalog" the contents of a disk, and print the "catalog" of the disk and a folding pattern onto a 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of plain paper (with one keystroke). Make three folds and a tuck and you have a neat sleeve which shows the contents of the disk in hierarchal order and protects the disk. The listing, by name, along with the date, time of last modification and file size is shown as if all folders were open. (InDisk does not actually open the folders or augment your disk in anyway; it just shows it like that.) This neat labeless-labeler provides a fast and easy way of labeling all your disks for filing or for sending to another person. It eliminates the age old problem of messy handwritten disk labels. InDisk Ver 1.5 (to be released by Jan 1, 1997) will catalog over 250 items on a ZIP disk and print a label which will fit into the ZIP disk case. Registration is just $9.95 The Upgrade is free to registered users visit our WEB site for more info or to register go to http://members.aol.com/indisk/ System requirements: * System 6 & up For more information, please read the Read Me file enclosed, or visit our Web page http://members.aol.com/indisk Complimentary Registrations for librarians just email us with your InDisk serial number. Thanks, Warren Schroeder Spectrum Publications 1086 Teaneck Rd Teaneck NJ 07666 I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. [Archived as /info-mac/app/in-disk-labeler-14.hqx; 67K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:59:44 -0600 From: (adam) adam@cam.org Subject: [*] Netscape Bryce splash patch This is a splash screen patcher for Netscape 3.01. It changes it to a mountain scene with a giant "N". Enjoy. -- mailto:adam@cam.org http://www.cam.org/~adam http://www.geocities.com/soho/6689 [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/ntscp/netscape-bryce-patch.hqx; 212K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:59:45 -0600 From: (adam) adam@cam.org Subject: [*] Netscape marble splash patch This is a splash screen patch for Netscape 3.01. It changes it to an engraved marble "N". Enjoy. -- mailto:adam@cam.org http://www.cam.org/~adam http://www.geocities.com/soho/6689 [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/ntscp/netscape-marble-patch.hqx; 240K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:48:57 -0800 From: onil@left.kier.re.kr (Eunil Kim) Subject: [*] NetsGB 1.0 - AppleScript agent application NetsGB is, reserved only for Mac users, an AppleScript agent application running in conjunction with Netscape Navigator It saves the HTML source of the Netscape's frontmost window with all shown other sources, and corrects the URLs to let surf the WWW world starting from the saved HTML file just like a bookmarked web page. To use NetsGB, you should have a Macintosh equipped with System 7.0+ and AppleScript 1.1+ for Netscape Navigator 1.1N+ with 1+ Mb(?) of RAM free. Whenever you want to save the Netscape's window that you are currently looking at, just only activate NetsGB. You can (but not always) obtain the latest NetsGB and documentation from: http://left.kier.re.kr/NetsGB/GBmain.html Please upload this software in the following directories: 1) /umich/util/comm/ 2) /info-mac/_Communication/MacTCP/ or /info-mac/_Communication/HTML/ Thanks, Eunil Kim onil@left.kier.re.kr [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/ntscp/nets-gb-10-as.hqx; 40K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:48:33 -0800 From: timhat@mgmainnet.com (Tim Hatcher (a.k.a. Burn)) Subject: [*] New Menu 1.0b3 adds a hierarchical menu to your Finder New Menu adds a hierarchical menu to your Finder's New Folder menu choice. Create a folder named "New Documents" in your system folder, and any files in that folder will appear on that hierarchical menu. These files should be various new documents for your various applications. When you select one of those file names, New Menu copies that file into your Finder's window (whereever the Finders New Folder would have created the folder). It's a copy, so you can open and modify it without changing your "blank" document in the "New Documents" folder. Also the System Beep at startup is when the INIT loads and if any one can disable this I will make them the co author. New Menu requires system 7 (although it's only been tested on 7.5.5). It may not work on older systems (But let me know if it will work) . You can get any support on it, But It's completely UNGUARANTEED for it may crash your computer. Feel free to send suggestions or complaints to me at timhat@mgmainnet.com . Tim Hatcher Main Net, Inc. System Operator http://www.mgmainnet.com/~timhat mailto:timhat@mgmainnet.com [Archived as /info-mac/gui/new-menu-10b3.hqx; 10K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:59:42 -0600 From: (Adam C. Engst) ace@tidbits.com Subject: [*] NewsWatcher 2.1.5, a Usenet news reader This is the latest version of John Norstad's free NewsWatcher. Changes are minor, just a bug fix from 2.1.4. Full documentation is included. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/newswatcher-215.hqx; 889K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:12:58 -0600 From: (Richard Bensam) rabensam@earthlink.net Subject: [*] Ocean for Kaleidoscope Ocean is a calm and restful color scheme for Kaleidoscope, the interface-altering control panel by Greg Landweber available from the Greg's Shareware site at http://greg.math.harvard.edu and elsewhere. When Kaleidoscope is installed, simply place Ocean in the "Kaleidoscope Color Schemes" folder in your Extensions folder, open the Kaleidoscope control panel, and select Ocean. Checked with Disinfectant 3.6. Richard Bensam http://home.earthlink.net/~rabensam/ [Archived as /info-mac/gui/ocean-for-kaleidoscope.hqx; 22K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:12:59 -0600 From: (Richard Bensam) rabensam@earthlink.net Subject: [*] Ozymandias for Kaleidoscope Ozymandias is an elegant and ornate color scheme for Kaleidoscope, the interface-altering control panel by Greg Landweber available from the Greg's Shareware site at http://greg.math.harvard.edu and elsewhere. When Kaleidoscope is installed, simply place Ozymandias in the "Kaleidoscope Color Schemes" folder in your Extensions folder, open the Kaleidoscope control panel, and select Ozymandias. Checked with Disinfectant 3.6. Richard Bensam http://home.earthlink.net/~rabensam/ [Archived as /info-mac/gui/ozymandias-for-kaleidoscope.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:47:00 -0800 From: saugustine@shodor.org (Sterling Augustine) Subject: [*] Pattern Manager 1.0 With the myriad of other desktop pattern installers out there, why another desktop pattern manager? Simple: none of them had the features that I wanted. None are native for the Power Macintosh; only System 7.5's Desktop Patterns control panel supports drag and drop; and most don't import pictures as well as I would like. Worst of all, with every desktop pattern installer out there, there is no easy way to preview all the patterns in a file at once, or to import many files in at once. So I wrote one. Pattern Manager=97"PatMan"=97does all those things. It displays patterns with their names in a user-sizable grid, installs patterns into the System File, and sets the utilities pattern (which other desktop pattern installers don't do). It fully supports drag and drop between files, the Scrapbook, the Finder, and any other program that supports drag and drop. Just click on a pattern and drag it where you want it. It fully supports cut and paste (of course). It has the best PICT importer available, and, surprisingly remarkable for a desktop pattern manager, it has resizeable windows. =46reeware Native for both Power Macintosh and 680x0 Macs Requires System 7.0 and Color QuickDraw Sterling Augustine Sterling_Augustine@shodor.org I give my permission to include it on the Info-Mac CD. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/pattern-manager-10.hqx; 568K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:59:36 -0600 From: (Antreas P. Hatzipolakis) xpolakis@hol.gr Subject: [*] PiPhilology 7.0 : A collection of Pi mnemonics in several langu PiPhilology v. 7.0 : This is a DocMaker format stand-alone document containing a collection of mnemonics, poems etc. related to well known mathematical constant Pi = 3.14159..... Req-nts: MacOS 7.5.x, Color monitor, Ismini font (included). Antreas P. Hatzipolakis Sfakianos@EuropeMail.Com xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr http://users.hol.gr/~xpolakis Antreas http://users.hol.gr/~xpolakis/ [Archived as /info-mac/sci/pi-philology-70.hqx; 385K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:47:25 -0800 From: daver@idiom.com (David Ray) Subject: [*] PPP-Connect 1.2 Many people who use MacOs 7.5.5 and PPP have a choice between OpenTransport/PPP and FreePPP. Many people saw some speed improvements with OT/PPP but went back to FreePPP because they preferred the interface. This AppleScript lets you use OpenTransport/PPP while providing an interface similar to FreePPP. It includes the ability to choose "sets" that contain your location, dialup phone number, TCP/IP setting, and login name. There are several optional features such as saving password and quiet mode. The script is distributed in 2 versions. The standard version runs on all machines (68k & PPC) and requires the user to initially set up the dialing information. Menus allow adding/editing additional locations and accounts. The enhanced version of the script automatically obtains location and account information from FreePPP settings and uses them for OT/PPP, and requires a PPC machine and additional software. -David Ray daver@idiom.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/conn/ppp-connect-12-as.hqx; 107K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:47:41 -0800 From: jvholder@northcoast.com (John V. Holder) Subject: [*] QuickScrap 1.1 QuickScrap (QS) can do things to make your life so much easier when using your Macintosh. Have you ever wanted to be able to easily store a piece of information from any document you're reading or editing? Here's how it's done with and without QuickScrap: Without QuickScrap: - select the information - type Command-C to copy - switch to finder or use the apple menu - open your other application or scrapbook - type Command-V to paste in the info - switch back to the first application - continue where you left off With QuickScrap: - select the info - type your QS hotkey - continue With QuickScrap, you can send the data on the clipboard instantly to a scrapbook file, a ScrapIt Pro file or a QuickScrap file by pressing a key (or keys) of your choice! The QuickScrap file can be used as a multiple clipboard containing as many as 100 items (you choose how many items it will hold). You can have QuickScrap automatically copy any selection you've made in any document you're working on and send the data directly to a scrap file with one keystroke. Some uses for QuickScrap: * keep a multiple clipboard (10, 25, 50 or 100 items) instead of just the one by using the QuickScrap file * email address 'glossary' * easy access to graphic elements * source for 'dingbat' characters * autopaste list of standard 'boilerplate' paragraphs Changes in version 1.1: * bug fixes * can now change the font and size used in text display (and editing) as well as the font and size used in the lists. System Requirements. Min. System...: 6.0.5 on up Min. Hardware.: Mac SE or better (Works great on PowerMacs!) Shareware.....: $15 Home Page.....: http://www.northcoast.com/~jvholder/ [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/quick-scrap-11.hqx; 218K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:48:53 -0800 From: jvholder@northcoast.com (John V. Holder) Subject: [*] ScrapIt Pro 5.23 (fat) Try the utility that made MacUser's list of the top 30 shareware programs of 1995! Anything you can copy to the clipboard can be pasted and stored in a ScrapIt Pro file. Features full support of Apple's latest technology; Drag = & Drop, QuickDraw 3D, Speech, and more! ScrapIt Pro, is the editable, searchable multimedia scrapbook... and a mini-= word processor to boot! Need a place to store, sort, display and search all of y= our text files, sounds, GIF files, JPEG files, QuickDraw 3D files? Look no furt= her, ScrapIt Pro is the utility you've been looking for! Additions to version 5.23: * Can now launch URL's by command-clicking if you have Internet Config installed. Special features found in version 5.x: * PowerMac & 680x0 native code! * Searchable comments for each item * QuickDraw 3D file support * Supports ArchiCAD * Search & Replace * Import from Now Scrapbook(tm) files * Import/Export GIF, TIFF, JPEG, sound, TEXT, PICT & EPSF files * View GIF, JPEG or QuickDraw 3D items! * Sort by date, name or type * Gallery mode * and more! Some suggested uses: Store frequently used clip-art (GIFs, JPEGs, PICTs, et= c.), email, letterhead text or graphics or sounds. Create different files to sto= re different categories of data =E3 instantly accessible at the click of a mous= e! Keep your favorite recipes in one file, quickly create and store notes in another... or store them all together and search by index. ScrapIt Pro can open any Scrapbook file (from Apple), SmartScrap, ScrapIt Pr= o, ScrapIt ][ or MultiScrap file. Min. System...: 6.0.5 on up Min. Hardware.: Mac 512ke Shareware.....: $20 Author........: John V. Holder email address.: johnholder@aol.com Home Page.....: http://www.northcoast.com/~jvholder/ [Archived as /info-mac/disk/scrap-it-pro-523.hqx; 660K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:47:28 -0800 From: peter.marks@pobox.com (peterm) Subject: [*] ServerMounter 1.1 Or "Server on the Mount", or the poor man's KeyChain. This application creates documents which, when double-clicked, quickly log you into an AppleShare server. The documents store an alias to the server and your username and password. (The password is encrypted). To create a new document, open just the ServerMounter application (ie: don't open a document), drag the icon of the server you want to store into the document window, (you'll see the machine, volume, and zone appear), enter your username and password, and save the document. To use a document, just double-click the document. If ServerMounter is launched by opening a document it will quickly log you in and then quit itself. The app works by resolving an alias to the server and poking the required keystrokes into the event queue to type the password and username in the log-in dialog. So, it's a bit of a "hack" and I know that in some situations, background processes and extensions can defeat this scheme by gobbling my keystrokes. Requires 68020 or better and a system with drag & drop. Anyway, hope you like it, I find it saves me time. ServerMounter is free, but I'd like you to contact me for permission to include it in collections that people pay for. Peter [Archived as /info-mac/comm/atlk/server-mounter-11-as.hqx; 117K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:59:38 -0600 From: (Alco Blom) alco@xs4all.nl Subject: [*] Smart Dubbing Pro 1.2v1 Smart Dubbing Pro 1.2v1 Smart Dubbing Pro is the professional edition of the freeware Smart Dubbing Lite (available in directory: /gst/mov/) Smart Dubbing=81 is a software utility which enables small videoclips to be played on a web page as they download. Smart Dubbing uses existing animated GIF-technology to show inline movies. Most important: this technique doesn't need special server software, cgi-scripts, Hot Java, Macromedia plug-ins, helper applications and all the stuff which makes it so complicated to put movement on a web page. The software actually takes a QuickTime movie and compresses it into a single GIF-file that can be recognised by Netscape 2.0 or higher. Smart Dubbing Pro had several sound features. Java sound, plugin support, sound recording, various compression schemes and Audio CD conversion. Input sound is either a CD soundtrack, a Quicktime movie, or an external source (this can be a microphone or line-feed, such as taperecorders). On the output side, there are two formats supported: Sun's AU format, used in Java. And AIFF, also a very common cross platform sound format. Smart Dubbing's Home Page: Smart Dubbing Pro requires: - QuickTime 2.1 - Sound Manager 3.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alco Blom Amsterdam URL Manager Pro GoHTML ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you believe in Macintosh? Go here: and sign up for active duty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/gst/mov/smart-dubbing-pro.hqx; 235K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:48:46 -0800 From: franke1@llnl.gov (Norman Franke) Subject: [*] SoundApp 2.2.1 This replaces the recently uploaded 2.2, which contained a serious bug. I'm happy to announce the availability of SoundApp 2.2.1. SoundApp is the premiere sound playback and conversion utility for the Macintosh. It is suitable for use as a sound-playing helper application with any of the popular WWW browsers, in addition to managing a collection of favorite sound samples and stand-alone usage. SoundApp remains freeware, so you may use it at no cost. Information regarding licensing the conversion and playback routines can be found in the internal "About SoundApp..." documentation. SoundApp 2.2.1 fixed a problem upgrading the preferences from 2.1.1 to the new 2.2 format which would corrupt the file. SoundApp requires the following: * At least a 68020 or PowerPC-based Macintosh (sorry 68000 users!), * System 7.0 or greater, and * Sound Manager 3.1 or greater (3.1 can be obtained from Apple and 3.2 is included in System 7.5.3 or greater). In addition, the following optional items are recommended: * QuickTime 2.0 or greater for QuickTime support (2.5 preferred), * The Drag Manager for drag and drop use in the Play Lists (part of System 7.5 and later), * A PowerPC-based Macintosh for MPEG support and better performance. SoundApp supports the following sound formats: * SoundCap (including Huffman-compressed), * SoundEdit (including stereo, MACE-3 and MACE-6), * AIFF, AIFF-C (MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1 and mu-law), * System 7 sound, * QuickTime MooV (soundtracks only, including MIDI movies), * Sun Audio .au and NeXT .snd (including mu-law, a-law, 8- and 16-bit linear, G.721 ADPCM and G.723 ADPCM), * Windows WAVE (including GSM-, IMA- and MS ADPCM-compressed, mu-law and a-law), * MPEG audio (layers I and II only, requires a Power Macintosh), * Sound Blaster VOC, Please note that I have no plans to support System 6.0.x, 68000-based Macs, MPEG on 680x0-based Macs or earlier versions of the Sound Manager. Sorry.. -Norman Franke (author) [Archived as /info-mac/gst/sound-app-221.hqx; 865K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:13:06 -0600 From: (Rev. Feorag NicBhride) feorag@antipope.demon.co.uk Subject: [*] Styl - a decorative, futurist typeface Styl is inspired by the lettering on the masthead of Dutch 1920s arts magazine _De Stijl_. The typeface is somewhat cubist in appearance and, although more legible than the original, is best used for headings and similar. The archive includes both PostScript and TrueType versions. Styl is freeware and may be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. --- feorag@antipope.demon.co.uk [Archived as /info-mac/font/styl.hqx; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:49:13 -0800 From: mdtaylor@wolfenet.com (Jeff Miles) Subject: [*] Stylin Buttons - Button graphics for web These are Stylish Buttons series #1. I sat down one afternoon to make a button or two for a web page and got a little carried away. Here are the first 20 of these buttons. They were made using Adobe Photoshop and are noncropped or sized reduced. Feel free to use them in any fashion you wish. All I ask is an e-mail from you telling me where I might be able to see them in use. If you have any requests for a special button feel free to contact me and we can work from there. For any questions or problems with these buttons contact me at: Jeff Miles mdtaylor@wolfenet.co m I am not resposible for any damage to any machine these buttons are used on. Use them at your own risk. [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/styln-buttons-v01.hqx; 380K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:13:05 -0600 From: (Rev. Feorag NicBhride) feorag@antipope.demon.co.uk Subject: [*] Styl Round - a decorative, futurist typeface Styl Round is a development of another of my typefaces 'Styl'. It has a rounded appearance similar to the lettering found on rave flyers. The archive contains both PostScript and TrueType versions. Styl Round is freeware and may be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. --- feorag@antipope.demon.co.uk [Archived as /info-mac/font/styl-round.hqx; 122K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:48:55 -0800 From: hekkel@xs4all.nl (Maarten L. Hekkelman) Subject: [*] Sum*It 1.0.2 Included is a new version of Sum*It, version 1.0.2. This version corrects some bugs that prevented printing on some systems, and corrects some other minor bugs. Sum*It is an easy to use, goodlooking, lightweight spreadsheet. It is PowerPC native, has drag&drop support, contains =B1100 functions and has balloon help. One major advantage of Sum*It compared to other spreadsheets is that it takes up very little memory when using small or avarage spreadsheets and it launches very fast. Sum*It is shareware, $20 for a single user license, ($24 incl. VAT for Europeans). See the Read Me for details on site licenses. maarten hekkelman hekkel@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~hekkel/ [Archived as /info-mac/data/sum-it-102.hqx; 429K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 16:52:13 -0600 From: (Don Cowan) strad@cwws.com Subject: [*] Technomatch: A HyperCard vocabulary game. This is a HyperCard computer vocabulary game I wrote. Match terms to score points. Fun and educational. Requires HyperCard 2.3 Player. Freeware. May be included in your CD. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/technomatch.hqx; 70K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:46:43 -0800 From: j5rson@prairie.lakes.com (Jeffrey D. Iverson) Subject: [*] The Aeneid - Newton Book Newton Book - A classic work of literature, written by the Greek Virgil. Contains much of what is known about Greek mythology. [Archived as /info-mac/nwt/info/aeneid.hqx; 521K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:59:43 -0600 From: (Alco Blom) alco@xs4all.nl Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro 1.3v3 Bookmark (URL) management utility for Web Browsers. Offers tight integration with Navigator and Explorer. Strong Features: * Store URLs in separate stand-alone documents * Choose Add Bookmark and store bookmarks directly in folder of choice. * Grab URLs from Web Pages, TEXT or HTML files * Tracks your whereabouts on the Web with a 1000 Web Page History record * Use Drag & Drop anywhere Featured in Guy Kawasaki's keynote speech at MacWorld 96, Boston. Home Page: Shareware : $25 Requirements: System 7.1 Author: Alco Blom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alco Blom Amsterdam URL Manager Pro GoHTML ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you believe in Macintosh? Go here: and sign up for active duty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/url-manager-pro-13v3.hqx; 265K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:13:18 -0600 From: (Quinn) quinn@quinn.echidna.id.au Subject: [*] Workin' Too Hard 1.0b1 Workin' Too Hard is a utility which logs the activity on your Macintosh and maintains a window with a plot of this activity over time. Workin' Too Hard allows you to monitor your own usage of the Mac, so that you know when it's time to stop work and go home. The salient features of Workin' Too Hard include: o Requires System 7. o Requires a colour capable Macintosh. o PowerBook savvy. o Freeware. o Source code included. Version 1.0b1 is the first released version. Workin' Too Hard was written by Quinn "The Eskimo!" in an attempt to stop himself staying at work too long. Workin' Too Hard is distributed as Freeware. If you like it, please drop me a line. Share and Enjoy. -- Quinn "The Eskimo!" "Too late, your imperfection has exceeded acceptable error levels. You are terminated!" [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/workin-too-hard-10b1.hqx; 41K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 97 15:23:22 -0000 From: "Paul E. Mullen" Subject: "TIA" Survey Well, many thanks to those 40 or so friendly Info-Mac'ers that responded to my request for the full meaning of the abbreviation "TIA." The general consensus is that it means "thanks in advance," which makes sense considering the context it's usually seen in. Quite a few folks also let me know that it stands for "The Internet Adapter," a piece of networking software (apparently) that allows you to sneak a PPP connection through your dial-up UNIX account. Not too practical these days considering the low cost and wide availability of regular PPP accounts. One individual even suggested that TIA could stand for "Turkish International Airlines." Hehe, there's one on every list! :-D TATF (Thanks after the fact!) Paul Mullen pmullen@gte.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:04:49 -0500 From: Martin Forrester Subject: [A] Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? Glen Warner asked: >I posted this question to the Eudora mailing list, but I got a canned (and >useless) response. > >Basically, with my last ISP account (about a year ago), each time I'd send >or recieve a message, it would give a date in the "Date" column. Now it >gives either a day ('Saturday'; which Saturday?!?) or a time ('10:11 AM >-0800'), but not the date I prefer ('12-29-96'). > >I can't find anything in the Help menu, either. > >Any clues? I think the content of that column changes as time goes by. So if the message was sent today it's listed with a *time*, if it was sent not today but still in the last week then it lists a *day*, and finally if it was sent more than a week ago it lists the *date*. ---------------- Martin Forrester mgforres@usaor.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:10:17 -0500 From: Martin Forrester Subject: [A] Guitar Tuning Program Available? Jon Stewart asked: >While I am experienced Mac user, I am a *very* beginning guitar player. I >vaguely remember that a program was once submitted to the archives that >utilized the Mac as a guitar-tuning aid. Unfortunately, I can't seem to >find this program now. I would be very grateful if someone could point me >in the right direction, or even whether or not such a thing exists. In the >meantime, I am going to try to soothe my injured fingertips and hope that >they develop callouses soon! "Guitar tuner" by Rustle Laidman. It's $12 shareware... http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/gst/snd/guitar-tuner-26.hqx ---------------- Martin Forrester mgforres@usaor.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:55:38 +1300 From: Kris Lane Subject: [Q] Converting .DSK Images to DiskCopy for Apple II Emulators >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:16:01 -0400 >From: Andrew Murray <> >Subject: > >I am looking for a way to use the Apple II disk images from the asimov >archives (in .DSK format) on an Apple II emulator on my Mac. Is there any >utility (or any trick) for converting .DSK images into standard Disk Copy >images or ones compatible with emulators like Fast Eddie? > >Or is there any way to use these images without converting them? Or is >there another archive like Asimov that has images compatible with Mac >emulators? > >Thanks in advance, >Andrew Murray > Shrinkwrap will do that, although they will be in it's own formats. It probaly converts them check the page below. It's somewhere in info-mac or visit http://www.halcyon.com/shrinkwrap for the latest release. kris ------- mailto:jlane@xtra.co.nz Wellington New Zealand ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:28:45 -0500 From: ccole@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com (Christopher F. Cole) Subject: [Q] Possible to print colored MS WORD text with Imagewriter? I have an AppleTalk Imagewriter II and my kids regularly print in color using some of the kiddy software packages. Is is possible to print, from MS Word, text of different colors using the Imagewriter II? WORD supports the coloring of text but I haven't been able to print in color. Please email copies of any posted replies. Thx. -- Chris Cole ccole@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 08:34:04 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark E. Ingram" Subject: [Q] Radius "Direct Color" Video Card Info-Mac Readers: I have access to a Radius NuBus video card - a "Direct Color 8/24," version 1.5 (approximately 1992 vintage) - that has been used to drive a 21-inch color monitor. Does anyone happen to know if this card can also be configured to drive a standard Apple Portrait (grayscale) Display, on a IIci ? What about an Apple 21-inch grayscale monitor? The card definitely seems not to work with a 14-inch color monitor, despite the latter's cable plug being physically compatible with that of the Radius card. An e-mail address for Radius tech. support would also be very much appreciated. Best regards, Mark E. Ingram mingram@mail.orion.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 97 02:07:29 -0600 From: "Stephen M. Gray" Subject: Alphabet soup Not to be picky or anything, but doesn't IMHO stand for "in my HUMBLE opinion?" Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 01:02:03 -0800 From: Jon Pugh Subject: Announcing the 11th Annual Netter's Dinner This is the last call for the 11th Annual SF MacWorld Netter's Dinner. This is THE place to meet other net.faces. It's on Wednesday after MacWorld. You must pay in advance (the crowd's gotten too big to do otherwise), but you can do it via email or the web. Complete information, signup forms and an attendee list are available at: http://www.infoworkshop.com/~jonpugh/nettersdinner.html This dinner was started right here on the Info-Mac mailing list in 1986 (well, we started talking about it in December of 85, but you get the idea). We've got over 200 people and plans to make QTVR movies with hotspots on the people which go to their web page or email. Come join the fun. Jon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 10:27:10 -0600 (CST) From: Tim Brogdon Subject: Answering Machine Software Happy New Year All! I'm trying to find software that will allow my computer to act like an answering machine. Does such a thing exist? I have a PowerBook 165 running 7.5.3 with 8 Megs of RAM and RAM Doubler installed (16Ms total), internal PowerPort Mercury Modem, Global Fax, and SmartCom. I have a dedicated phone line for the computer. Thanks very much Tim Brogdon utdbrogdon@msuvx2.memphis.edu (901) 458-1839 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:27:02 +0100 From: Michael Everson Subject: Apple's birthday: sine qua non Apple was incorporated 20 years ago today, on 1977-01-03. Happy Birthday, Apple! And many, many happy returns of the day. -- Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta 15 Port Chaeimhghein =CDochtarach; Baile =C1tha Cliath 2; =C9ire (Ireland) Guth=E1in: +353 1 478-2597, +353 1 283-9396 http://www.indigo.ie/egt 27 P=E1irc an Fh=E9ithlinn; Baile an Bh=F3thair; Co. =C1tha Cliath; =C9ire ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:03:06 -0600 From: "Gordon Watts (Brown University)" Subject: Desktop Windows -- What's out there? Hi there, I've been using Virtual Desktop 1.9 for about 6 months (it is in the gui directory at info-mac). I really like what it does: increases your desktop to infinite size and provides scroll bars and other tools to move to specific locations. I've got a section set up for writing talks, for working on info-mac, for working on C++, etc. etc. It is great. So, I'm curious as to what other programs are out there and how people like them? Cheers, Gordon. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jan 97 09:32:15 BST From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk Subject: Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90 Pedro Johansson asked about obtaining different screen resolutions on a PowerMac 7200/90 with a 'Samtron' 14" (presumably multiscan) monitor. There is a very informative article in the info-mac archive, which relates specifically to the Quadra 700 and 900 series of Macs, but which I expect also applies to some extent to newer Macs. It lists amongst other things, the sense pin connections which tell the Mac which display modes are supported by the monitor. Apple monitors have these connections built in, but 3rd party monitors need an external adaptor to make the connections. The file may be obtained from info-mac/_Information/_Hardware/quadra-video-notes.txt Ian Goldby. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 12:04:07 +0100 From: Christian F Buser Subject: Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90 (R) Pedro Johansson wrote: > I have a PowerMac 7200/90 with a 'Samtron' (3rd party) 14" screen. > Since the screen is 3rd party, Im using a little adapter to connect >my mac and > the screen. > The screen is capable to show 640x480,800x600 among many others. > > The little adapter I use to connect the screen and my mac has no setting > for this. It probably has a setting for "autosync 1152 x 864", or another, higher than your required 800 x 600. 1. Set it to 640 x 480. 2. Go to the Control panel, and make sure it displays this one. 3. change the settings of the adapter to one of these "autosync" (or "multisync") sizes. 4. Restart 5. Go to the Control panel "monitors" and look which sizes you see. Select 800 x 600 and your screen should adjust without need to restart. Just make sure that you don't set a resolution in the contropl panel which - although within the range of the adapter setting - is not supported by your display. > Is there some software device out there that lets you change the > screen resolution to whatever, not just the ones that are supported at the > moment (ie shown by the dip-switches in the adapter ? ) See above. If you select "hard" resolutions, you can't change it via software, but if you use "autosync" or "multisync", you can change it using the monitor control panel. Good luck and best wishes for the new year -- Christian cbuser@access.ch -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:08:28 -0800 From: gdwarner@ricochet.net (Glen Warner) Subject: Eudora Date and Time Problem: Fixed! Greetings. Thanks to the participants of this list, I can say that my problem with Eudora showing the day of the reciept of a message (as in "Saturday") vice the date (as in "12-25-96" as I prefer) has been fixed! I'm almost embarrassed to reveal the solution, but ... Basically, under the Special/Settings/Font & Display menu, there is a small radio button under the "Date Formats" option which reads "Fixed". This must be checked for the time of reciept to show as I wished it to be shown. Strange place for this setting, I think ... but at least it was there. Thanks for all of those responses (20 thus far!). --gdw ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:06:50 -0500 From: Randall Meadows Subject: Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 00:19:27 -0800, gdwarner@ricochet.net (Glen Warner) wrote: > I posted this question to the Eudora mailing list, but I got a canned (and > useless) response. > > Basically, with my last ISP account (about a year ago), each time I'd send > or recieve a message, it would give a date in the "Date" column. Now it > gives either a day ('Saturday'; which Saturday?!?) or a time ('10:11 AM > -0800'), but not the date I prefer ('12-29-96'). > > I can't find anything in the Help menu, either. > > Any clues? In the "Settings" dialog, there is a "Date Display" option. If you have it set to "Age-sensitive", it will display the time for any messages received on the current day, the day of the week for messages less than a week old, and the full date for messages older than a week. So "4:56 AM" would mean you received the message this morning, "Saturday" would mean the last Saturday that occurred, 12/24/96 would mean exactly that (and imply that it's at least a week after the 24th of December, 1996). You can also set the option to "Fixed", in which the timestamp of a message always shows the time and the date, like "1:44 PM 12/23/96". HTH, Randall B Meadows * FGM, Inc. * meadowsr@fgm.com * (703) 478-9881 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:57:55 -0700 From: Ken Linger Subject: Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? Eudora's dates/times are relative. A message received today shows the time it arrived. If from the past week, it shows which day. Prior to that, it shows the date. Check out your settings in the "Date Display" section and change the "Date format" from age-sensitive to fixed. Ken Linger --- >Greetings. > >I posted this question to the Eudora mailing list, but I got a canned (and >useless) response. > >Basically, with my last ISP account (about a year ago), each time I'd send >or recieve a message, it would give a date in the "Date" column. Now it >gives either a day ('Saturday'; which Saturday?!?) or a time ('10:11 AM >-0800'), but not the date I prefer ('12-29-96'). > >I can't find anything in the Help menu, either. Ken Linger | mailto://Linger@star-systems.com Scottsdale, Arizona | http://home.earthlink.net/~linger ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 08:03:46 +0100 From: Wladyslaw Los Subject: Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? > Greetings. > > I posted this question to the Eudora mailing list, but I got a canned (and > useless) response. > > Basically, with my last ISP account (about a year ago), each time I'd send > or recieve a message, it would give a date in the "Date" column. Now it > gives either a day ('Saturday'; which Saturday?!?) or a time ('10:11 AM > -0800'), but not the date I prefer ('12-29-96'). > > I can't find anything in the Help menu, either. > > Any clues? > > --gdw Go to menu "Special", submenu "Settings", choose "Date display" from the list, check "Date format -- fixed" radio button. BTW -- whats the address of the Eudora mailing list? Wladyslaw Los Curator of Medieval Art Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Al. Jerozolimskie 3, 00-495 Warszawa phone (22) 621 10 31 ext. 214 & 209; fax (22) 622 85 59 wlos@plearn.edu.pl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 13:28:53 -0800 From: caryn@halcyon.com (Caryn Roberts) Subject: Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? (A) In article <5agvgh$lb3@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, gdwarner@ricochet.net (Glen Warner) wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 00:19:27 -0800 > From: gdwarner@ricochet.net (Glen Warner) > Subject: Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!? > > Greetings. > > I posted this question to the Eudora mailing list, but I got a canned (and > useless) response. > > Basically, with my last ISP account (about a year ago), each time I'd send > or recieve a message, it would give a date in the "Date" column. Now it > gives either a day ('Saturday'; which Saturday?!?) or a time ('10:11 AM > -0800'), but not the date I prefer ('12-29-96'). > > I can't find anything in the Help menu, either. > > Any clues? > > --gdw > > ------------------------------ I imagine you are using the new Eudora Lite 3. 1. Turn on balloon help. 2. Pull down the "Special" menu to "Settings." 3. Select the "Date Display" settings. 4. Move the cursor over the various options and choose one you like. 5. Click "OK." The operation as you describe it is a new feature. Mail that arrives "today" (whichever day that is) shows time of arrival. Mail that arrived during the previous 6 days shows the day of the week. Mail older than 7 days shows the date. You can also choose the old boring display as you describe. Peace, Caryn -- visit me at: Seattle Web Factory: CyberCorps: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:02:48 +0100 From: gcaniglia@mail5.clio.it (Gabriele Caniglia) Subject: Mac Problem Hi Raymond! >My Macintosh is 8100/80. Recently, my computer's date & time >can not work. The problem is following: >The Current date must revert the date to "6/2/40" when restart and >turn on the computer. >The Current time was stop on "6:28:15 AM" and it cannot run. >The Menubar Clock option is on, but it cannot display on right hand >side of screen. >Please help me ans. this problem. >Thanks! Batteries low! You have to change them! Good luck, Gabriele Caniglia. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 03:56:17 +0100 From: Hartmut Buhrmester Subject: Netscape 2.01 doesn't run on Mac IIcx >A friend just bought an Internet connection, but he can only run Netscape >1.12 because the 2.01 version doesn't work at all -- he gets a finder >error when he tries to launch the program, I forgot the error type >though, but it was an error because some hardware/software was not present. > >He uses a Macintosh IIcx 68030, 16MHz 8/120, with System 7.5.3 French & >FreePPP 2.5 French. Netscape 2.02 runs fine on a Macintosh IIvx with System 7.5.5. You should check your version of the program. Is compiled for 680x0 Macs, Power Macs or both (as a fat binary)? If you try to start a Power Macintosh only program on a 680x0 Macintosh, you may immediately get an error -192 "resource not found". This means that the usual CODE resources with 680x0 program code are not present; Power PC code is stored in the data fork instead. -- Hartmut Buhrmester ------------------------------ Date: 2 Jan 97 20:35:59 -0800 From: "Melissa & Dan Becker" Subject: No Powerbooks in UTAH's Stores >From: Curtis Coy >Subject: No Powerbooks in UTAH's Stores > >Someone tell me WHY!! > I have been going to different Super computer stores and not one had a >powerbook to try. All they had were PC notebooks. When I was at these >stores I asked the so-called salesperson where are the Macintosh >Powerbooks ? He replied "We don't sell enough of them to stock 'em". >This was at Computer City, Incredible Universe,Circuit City and Future >Shop. Curtis-- Until this summer, I worked for one of the stores you mentioned as a salesperson in a Washington store. I was also one of the company's few Mac champions, and was very vocal in supporting the Mac and helping determine our marketing plan (which models to sell, what promotions to run, etc.) Over the past year, the Powerbook 5300 fiasco hurt retailers badly. We were selling 5300s and having a return rate of close to 50% (vs. 10% for most computers). Then last spring, Apple told us to ship all our stock back to them. We didn't get more than a few dozen (spread over a few dozen stores!) for several months. And by the time they were finally available again, the 1400 was right around the corner. I'm no longer working in retail (I'm a technician and support provider) but I'm sure what's going on is that the 1400 is in such short supply, Computer City and Future Shop don't have the stock to put a demo in each store. Interest in the 5300's, since they were such a lousy model, has plummeted now that the 1400s are "available" and the 3400s are close at hand. Circuit City usually only stocks two or three Performas. Incredible Universe is having major problems (they may be sold by Tandy) and might not have the cash resources to stock any but sure sellers. Another point: for a retailer, putting a demo out for a product that simply isn't available is very poor customer service, and ends up frustrating more people. Whenever this happened, someone would invariably ask to buy the demo, even if there would be no discount. Then we sell a "used" computer to someone who really wanted it, when we could have simply left it in the box and sold whoever got there first a new one. Also, we sometimes kept products that we had limited supply on in a central warehouse. So if 3 people in Salt Lake want one, and we have 3 in our warehouse, we send all 3 to Salt Lake. But if we had a demo in every store, and none in the warehouse.... But Apple is notoriously awful at shipping new models in sufficient quantity at introduction. Some of the sales reps at my company (who sell several hundred computers at a pop) have had their own personal 1400s on order since they were introduced, and have not yet received them. So, there are a number of reasons why you're not seeing PowerBooks at retailers. But I won't pretend that lack of interest in Macintosh sales on the part of the retailers is another significant contributor. My suggestion: You probably won't find ANY 1400's on demo ANYWHERE for at least another month. But check to see if there are any smaller Apple dealers around. They may have 5300s on demo still. Good luck. ------------------------------ Date: 31 Dec 1996 13:54:18 U From: "Bohannon, Kim" Subject: Pictures in SimpleText You wrote: >Can someone out there please tell me how to put pictures into simpletext >documents? This seems like a pretty glaring omission on apple's part. I discovered the same lack. I couldn't get around it, so I used MS Word, and saved the files as text. Kim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:45:17 -1000 From: ChrisLi@kagi.com (Christopher Li) Subject: pictures in simpletext > >Can someone out there please tell me how to put pictures into simpletext > >documents? > > Here's the manual way. > > Create your SimpleText document. Everywhere you want to put a picture, > type option-space on a line by itself. Type a bunch of blank lines after > it [enough to accommodate the picture]. Save the document. > > Open the document in ResEdit or Resorceror. Paste your pictures into the > resource fork of the document. Number them in the order in which they are > to appear, starting at 1000 [the first picture should be ID 1000, the > second ID 1001, etc.]. Save the document. > > Open the document in SimpleText again, and adjust the number of blank lines > you've allotted to each picture so the text doesn't overlap them. > > Save the document, then change the filetype from "TEXT" to "ttro". > > There used to be a utility called "TeachTextMaker" which made this process > much less icky. I can't find that program in the info-mac archive anymore. > Maybe something has taken its place. The easiest method of all is to compose your document in Tex-Edit Plus and then just save it as a SimpleText document (can save as ReadOnly, too!) with all the pictures intact! Available from , or get the Japanese version at . Best, Chris Christopher Li Bridge 1 Software English to Japanese Online Software Localization and Management ChrisLi@kagi.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:47:55 -0500 From: Pieter Stouten Subject: pictures in simpletext At 11:20 -0500 96/12/30, Chaz Larson wrote: >There used to be a utility called "TeachTextMaker" which made this process >much less icky. I can't find that program in the info-mac archive anymore. >Maybe something has taken its place. > It was superseded by Belgian Postcards (written by Karl Pottie ), which does not seem to be in the archives. I am not sure if the program is still available. Cheers, Pieter. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 08:38:36 -0800 From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" Subject: Removing anchors from html documents Some time back I left a query here about how to remove links (anchors) from my html documents so that Internet Assistant for Word 6 would not turn them into fields which could not be read by PageMaker 6. I wanted to preserve the text which constituted the link but turn it into ordinary, unlinked text, so that Important words becomes Important words I also wanted to preserve the html code which would tell Internet Assistant to make certain words italic and others bold, so turning the whole document into plain text was not an option. The solution turns out to be using the Grep search ability of BBEdit. First in BBEdit 4.02 (or any other version that supports Grep), chose "Find" from the Search menu. In the Search For field, enter (.*) and in the Change To field, enter \1 Then choose "Replace All." Presto, your links are all turned into ordinary text. Patrick Woolsey, Director of Technical Services at Bare Bones Software, provided this solution and gives this explanation: >where the first part of the search pattern 'more instances of any character" where the '.' means any character and '*' >means 'the preceding item repeated zero or more times'. Then, there is a >literal closing angle bracket '>', followed by a subpattern (indicated by >the enclosing parentheses) matching the link text and consisting of >another run of any characters, and finally the literal anchor tag closing >element ''. > >The replace string simply reinserts the contents of the first subpattern >match '\1' while not bothering to reinsert the tags. The one disadvantage >of this whole business is that you cannot search an arbitrary number of >lines, so an anchor like: > > The War of the Worlds > >will work fine, whereas a more expanded tag like > > > The War of the Worlds -- > Now in 32-bit SuperQuickDrawGX Technicolor!!!! > > >will not (unless you know ahead of time how many lines to code into the >subpattern match...not usually the case). Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 14:20:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Don't Panic" Subject: System 7.6 Dear Digest readers, "MacUser" magazine February 1997 says Harmony (System 7.6) is going to be released on schedule. When is it scheduled for? I didn't see anything about it at Apple's web site, other than the MacWorld conference will have an announcement and demonstration about it. Thank you. Sincerely, ABRODY@vax.clarku.edu ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jan 1997 06:19:34 GMT From: p012727b@pbfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Jack Tumlin) Subject: TERM in MAC I can't find out how to get the MODEM going in my MAC 6200 CD, I kreep reading the books and go in circles. I'm using a COMMODORE 128 with several terms and have no trouble but the books don't seem to have a direct connection with the modem and (ME) HA! I'm JACK TUMLIN at 2113 Longwood Rd. W. Palm Beach, FL.> 33409 (561)-697-2227 any help will be appreaciated...Thank you ...I was told to stay off of the APPLE user group in very few words. :-) -- Jack Tumlin p012727b@pbfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 97 16:37:27 +0000 From: Richard Subject: Text to Speech in Word 5.1a James Bleifus asked: >After a couple of years of experimentation I have returned to my old fav >- Word 5.1a. The one feature I wish it had is Text-To-Speech. Is there an >Applescript around that will do that? What about One-Click? Hi James There's a slicker solution than Applescript. Somebody at Microsoft wrote ("in his garage") a PIM which makes 5.1a speak. You drop it into your COMMANDS folder, and get two new menu-items in TOOLS: "Pick Voice" and "Speak Selection". It's a well-kept secret, and is offered by MS strictly on an "as-is" basis. I couldn't find it on the MS "Ignorance Base", and you may have to grovel a bit to get a copy out of them. Not sure how to start, but I got mine from the MS forum on CIS. I have a copy that I've been using for a year or two. It's reliable, but conflicts with SCSI manager (I think with v4.3, but I wouldn't swear to it. WORD-speak seemed more valuable than SCSI manager so I ditched the latter). Only other drawbacks are those of text-to-speech itself: needs a reasonably high spec machine with a decent amount of memory for the high quality voices, but it works fine on my clunky old Quadra 650. I also use Prefab Player to make Word 5.1a scriptable, and IMHO, this and the Word-Speak PIM make the up?grade to 6 unnecessary. Richard Platt The Old Squash Court, Bayham Abbey, Lamberhurst, Kent TN3 8BG, England Fax: (+44) 1892 890951 Phone (+44) 1892 890741 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:53:30 -0800 From: Matt Neuburg Subject: Text to Speech in Word 5.1a [A] >After a couple of years of experimentation I have returned to my old fav >- Word 5.1a. The one feature I wish it had is Text-To-Speech. Is there an >Applescript around that will do that? What about One-Click? Either will do; for AppleScript you need an OSAX. I use OneClick to read me the selected text in any app. Before I got OneClick I used a wonderful control panel called Hear-It; it was on Info-Mac but it seems to have fallen off the nets. m. matt neuburg, phd = matt@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:46:12 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: TIA? At 11:53 AM +0100 12/30/96, Alexandre S. Simionovici wrote: >IMHO == in my honest opinion In my experience, this has always stood for "in my humble opinion", which leads to the more-often seen: IMNSHO == in my not so humble opinion IMNAAHO == in my not at all humble opinion chazl 01.02.97 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:55:32 -0600 From: "Bruce A. Bromberek" Subject: Virtual Memory Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I have always thought that Virtual memory required disk space equal to the amount set minus the amount of physical RAM. Yesterday (new tradition, on Jan 1 back up hard drive, clean install of system) I noticed that when I turned on VM set to 25MB with 24MB ram installed that I lost 25 MB of didk space. That's a steep price to pay for a little extra memory. Is this how's its always been and I didn't notice because I had only 8MB previusly or is this new feature of 7.5.5. Thanks in advance Bruce ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 08:49:14 -0600 From: clark@mail.jdis.com (Clark R. Wilkins) Subject: Which Klone Kwery... and all that JAZ > Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:51:10 +0100 > From: Andrzej Przybyla > Subject: Which Klone Kwery... and all that JAZ > > I want to give myself a belated Christmas present in the form of a > Mac clone. Unfortunately, the latest news comes to Poland with a huge jet > lag - by the time you adjust to the new reality you realise you're a month > behind the times. I read a favourable review of the Power Computing's > PowerBases in Macworld so I asked a friend to bring me one from the States > - only to discover a few days later in the next issue that the APS's > M*Powers were already on sale. > Now the questions: > 1. Am I right in thinking that a 200 MHz 604e ~(M*Power) should be > faster than a 240 MHz 603e (PowerBase)? I think this is pretty certain. See concerns about upgrading below though. > 2. Since I'm promoting my old 12 meg Duo 230 to the new position of a > doorstop (there was nothing I could salvage from it) the memory I invest in > now should serve me for many years to come - wouldn't it be wiser to get a > Tanzania motherboard machine that uses the new type of RAM chips? My brand-new Powerbase 180 is using the new EDO DIMMs. I was under the impression that there's nothing newer than that. Also of concern to me was the M*Power boards not being processor upgradeable. (This is my understanding for the 603e based machines - not sure about the 604). > 3. Does anyone know if the clones are 110V/220V switchable like the > Macs? Or can one order a 220V option? My Powerbase 180 has a switch on the back. You could probably clarify this by visiting the website at www.powercc.com. > 4. How about the JAZ drives and the SyJETS? How are they powered? I > hate the adaptors as they make the thicket behind my desk even more > unpenetrable so I was overjoyed when I found out that LaCIE's Jaz drive's > "exclusive metal case icludes power supply" until I realised it would > prolly be 110v. > BTW, APS advertises two kinds of "APS (JAZ) removable drives" - > SR1000 and SR2000. I deducted (deduced?) that they mean different kinds of > enclosures (cases?). But how do they differ? Anybody got any idea? The SR1000 is a lower-end case with AC-DC capabilities intended for use in portable applications. The SR2000 has the digital active termination and the ICE2 heat reduction technology. I recommend and use SR2000 enclosures for several disks and a DAT. I'd be willing to bet that an SR2000 enclosed Jaz will include a built-in power supply. > 6. If a machine has an IDE HD or CD-ROM they don't count in the SCSI > chain, right? How many "seats" are there on the IDE bus then? My understanding from PC days gone by is that you can use two IDE devices in a master-slave configuration. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************