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- From MindWork:
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- Welcome Users' Groups!
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- MindWork Software, publishers of MindWrite, the integrated Outliner/Word
- Processor for the Macintosh would like to welcome the Macintosh User Groups to
- the AppleLink Bulletin Board.
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- MindWork is dedicated to providing the best support possible to our users and
- we're glad to have this opportunity to communicate with the most active members
- of the Macintosh community. If you or members of your users group have
- questions about how MindWrite works, technical problems you need help with, or
- just want to comment about the program please let us know. We're eager to get
- your feedback.
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- MindWork Software News
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- As most MindWrite users know, we are deep into the development of MindWrite
- 1.1. This update will greatly enhance performance and fix bugs in version
- 1.0. If you are a registered user and have not received information about this
- free software update, please Link us a message or call us direct.
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- Also if you would like to include our evaluation version of MindWrite in your
- public domain library, drop us a line and we'll send it out.
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- For those of you who are members of BIX (Byte Information Exchange), we have
- just begun a Vendor Support Conference in that on-line network. The MindWork
- conference contains complete product information, power user tips and technical
- support.
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- Our Address is:
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- MindWork Software
- 100 Pacific St. Suite 555C
- Monterey, CA 93940
- (408) 375-1531
- AppleLink: D0067
- MCI: MINDWORK
- BIX: Mindwork
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- Sincerely,
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- Mark Kaufmann
- Customer Support Manager
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- Item 9951495 30-June-87 18:49
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- From: U0205 U of Hawaii, David Lassner
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- To: AUC$ Apple University Consortium
- UPP$ UPP Contacts
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- Sub: Hot Tip: Mode Switch for LW
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- Sore fingers from switching your LaserWriter from Appletalk to 9600 so
- you can connect it to something else? Let Radio Shack part# 274-403
- spare those delicate digits. 2 knobs for $.79. Fits like a glove.
- Small screwdriver required for assembly.
-
-
- ---
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- Item 1276946 30-June-87 18:51
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- From: UG0122 Madison Macintosh Users Group
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- To: UG0017 Oklahoma City Apple, User Group
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- cc: UG$ User Groups
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- Sub: WordPerfect->MacWrite Convert
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- Hello,
- I have converted WordPerfect files to MacWrite several times and have been
- able to retain all formatting. There are two methods of doing this. First of
- all, you should use the CONVERT utility of WordPerfect and save the document in
- the IBM Revisable DCA (Document Content Architecture) format. This is a
- standard word processor file format in the IBM world. Your next step is to
- communicate the file to the Mac. Use a binary protocol like XModem. Now, you'll
- need either MicroSoft Word 3.0 or the MacLink Plus software from DataViz. Both
- have options to translate documents from DCA format to a Macintosh format.
- MacLink Plus will translate directly to MacWrite. It can perform many different
- types of translations, not just between word processors, and includes a cable
- and software to link the IBM and the Mac. List price is $195, street price is
- $160. To translate the document using Word, you must run the DCA Conversion
- application that comes with Word 3.0 to translate the document to an Rtf format
- which Word 3.0 can open directly. You can then save the Word 3.0 document into
- MacWrite format, assuming that Word 3.0 doesn't crash while you are doing the
- save.
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- If you have neither of these programs, then try to obtain the shareware DeskZap
- DA (on all of the services). It has capabilities to remove linefeeds, control
- characters, and other undesireable characters from text files. An application
- which also does a good job at this is called Macify 2.0, and it, too is
- available on all of the major networks.
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- Good luck!
-
- Robert Hammen
- Madison Macintosh Users Group
- UG0122
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- To: UPP$ AND AUC$ UPP Contacts
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- Sub: DISK ICONS
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- I created custom disk icons on the Macintosh Plus by inserting an ICN# 129 into
- the disk's Desktop File. All is well on the Plus, however, these custom icons
- do not appear on the Mac SE, and are replaced by the generic blank icon. Why is
- this, and can they be made to appear on both the SE and the Plus?
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- ======================APPLE TECHNICAL SUPPORT RESPONSE=========================
- We would appreciate it, if on future Links, you would sign your name. We like
- to feel that we are responding to your problem directly, and would like to be
- able to address our answers to you by name.
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- You do not state whether you are working from a floppy or a hard disk.
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- If you are working from a hard disk, you'll need to make the same mods on the
- Sysem file on SE as on the Plus.
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- If you are on a dual floppy machine, make sure you are booting with the same
- diskette as used on the Plus.
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- In general, however, new System software will NOT allow you to customize
- diskette or hard disk icon. You can still customize file, document and
- anything other than disk icons stored in the Finder as a resource, which
- includes, but is not limited to both the empty and bulding trash cans.
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- If I can be of any further assistance in this or any other matter, please let
- me know, and Thank You for using AppleLink.
-
- Sue Goodin
- Charlotte Technical Support
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- Scientific Solutions (Tecmar) has developed a version of its popular LabMaster
- data acquisition subsystem for the Macintosh II. The LabMaster II is a single
- board personal instrument peripheral containing multichannel D/A, A/D, digital
- I/O, and timing functions.
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- Anticipating the success which the Macintosh II will have in scientific and
- instrumentation applications, we would like to work with other interested
- parties in developing new or existing standards for Slot Manager declaration
- ROM resources. The primary goal is to provide an open, device independent
- environment for writers of scientific/industrial software applications. The
- means to this end is to provide an abstraction mechanism, more efficient and
- specific to the data acquisition task than a typical device driver, which will
- allow software writers to produce hardware-independent applications. The
- resulting abstraction techniques could be applied to many other types of
- peripheral hardware. The abstraction mechanism could be procedural, such as a
- nonstandard device driver or a library of code fragments, or data-driven, using
- slot resources to describe the various hardware functions and capabilities, or
- a hybrid of the two.
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- We are in the early stages of this effort and would like to hear from all
- interested parties, including established hardware and software developers.
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- Sincerely,
-
- Chas Honton
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- Scientific Solutions
- 6225 Cochran Rd
- Solon, OH 44139
- (216) 349-4030 x306
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- AppleLink via D0338.
-