Well, the macbook pro is up and running and the only real loss in OS X is some screensavers I've run for years no longer work under the new architecture....
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 3, 2007 5:53 am
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... My distribution includes "Underware", a classic screensaver that was commercial at first, and then released free. You need to turn it on in its control...
John Can it run Lunatic Fringe which was part of AfterDark but the best Space shoot 'em up ever - your spacecraft positively whimpered when it died! Thanks...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 3, 2007 7:11 pm
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... I didn't know Distinguished Professors of Law and Directors of Human Rights Centres liked space shoot `em up stuff . . . : -) IIRC Underware runs After...
... Perl (.pl) scripts are run as-is (interpreted), not compiled. Just do ./nameofscript.pl You can also use the command-line interface of AbiWord for this in...
... Thank you! But _where_ do I "do ./nameofscript.pl"? Do you run a Perl script from OS X's Terminal? Do you have to paste the script in to the Terminal,...
... That's the point, I don't like space shoot em ups (or any other shoot em ups for that matter), but Lunatic Fringe was just plain silly, and sometimes that...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 4, 2007 5:59 am
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... You got it: in the Terminal. That's also where you'd run the AbiWord conversion command line. All command-line stuff like that takes place on the...
Let me thank all for your help ahead of time. I'm not the most technologically adept person in the universe, and so I greatly appreciate any aid and/or...
... WP DocCompare 2.1 (free) "WP DocCompare is a free addition to Corel WordPerfect for the Macintosh that adds state-of-the-art document comparison ...
... Type "cd /path/to/script" no quotes and hit enter Type "./nameofscript.pl" and optionally any arguments/parameters it needs, and hit enter. I have no...
... It certainly is state-of-the-art. The web page cited, though, is not Gero's active page - for some reason he can no longer update it. While the versions of...
I had neglected to post this 402-page PDF file from WP, with a complete reference to the program's 900 commands and objects, plus several tutorials. Thanks to...
... The thing is, there is no way working in WP can be made to conform to the methods used in Weird. As Randy said, the WP DocCompare utility allows you to do...
... Everyone seems to have different needs when it comes to tracking changes. I don't care for them myself, but some users like one or more of these free...
... Oh, so you don't have to paste in the script? Sounds good. Thanks! ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh...
... There's a macro in WP that allows you to add stick notes that can be hidden if necessary and either printed or ignored in printing. It's effectively a...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 5, 2007 6:27 pm
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Hi, Everyone. I just took some advice from this list from a while ago and got USB Overdrive (the $20 shareware fee covers both the Classic and OSX versions)....
... Its hard to match Word's capability. depending on what you need track changes for, it may be easier to translate into and back out of Word for that...
... It's called "Notes" and comes in the Document Experts set, in the Files section here, Doc Experts contains a number of macros, templates and clip art. I...
... But isn't WP DocCompare more accurate at tracking changes than Word's facility? I'd value that much more than e.g. click to accept changes? John R....
... I use it to type command-W, i.e. to close the front window. Also, I rarely use contextual menus, so I leave access to that as control-click, and use the...
... I use it to invoke DejaMenu http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html Very useful with big/multiple monitors. bye, P. (^_^) ... 206-11 Charlevoix...
... I use it as an extension of what the scroll-wheel itself does. I have it set up to scroll down the page a page at a time (i.e. each click of the...
I don't use Notes as I'm writing something, but then I don't use Comments in Word as I write. In both cases, I use the tool when I am reading through...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 6, 2007 5:49 am
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John, Paul, and Randy, thank you for the mousing advice. I do like to use right-clicking to access contextual menus, though in Classic it is mainly to access...
... Tom I have X3 under Parallels. Is there a way for WPWin to open WPMac files directly or do I need to save as WP6 in the WPMac dialog? Thanks Geoff...
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