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'~~-Adobe OFFER ID: WAl61 July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 Volume 16 July/August 1994 Numbers 7/8 Coming Soon­ Dust Club News Font Leadership: How to Boss Your by Lorin Evans Fonts Around ......................... 27 WAP Hotline ........................ 35, 38 by Lawrence Charters The Pi has a full-time paid staff of WAP Calendar ..................... 36, 37 Troubles ..................................... 30 one and a couple of part-time posi­ Index to Advertisers .. .. ... ... .. .. .. 21 by Stuart Bonwit TCS Help Sheet .......................... 39 tions to handle our day-to-day op­ Networking Primer-Beyond erations. The rest of our activities Classified Advertisements ......... 71 LocalTalk WAP Membership Form ............ 72 are run by volunteers. Each month by John O'Reilly ..................... 31 we produce our award winning Jour­ A Taste of Binaries-[C7.B16] ... 33 nal, in-house tutorials, participate by David Harris in a seminar or two and conduct a SIGs and Slices The Why and How of a Clean monthly meeting. Installation ............................. 40 Stock SIG ..................................... 8 In addition, we just completed by Morris Pelham · by Stephanie Hahn New Macintosh Files on the TCS our large summer garage sale and NewtonSIG .................................. 9 are invited [and in some cases ex­ by Andrew Halls · by Lawrence I. Charters ........ 43 Macintosh Tutorials ............. 50, 51 pected] to attend a number of trade Women's SIG .............................. 11 shows. The number so far, just this by Nancy Seferian Tutorial Registration Form ........ 52 Mac Music With MIDI ............... 53 summer, is five: MacWorld Wash­ by Randy Landenberger ington and Boston, Multi-media Expo, theNationalApple UserGroup Workshop & Symposium General Interest Apple ///Articles (NAUGSAW) and the Intergalactic New TCS Guide Now Available Conference. Now, finally, we are at by Paul Schlosser ..................... 5 Ori theTrail of the Apple /// ........ 56 the end of the five year lease on our May General Meeting ................ 12 by David Ottalini office and need to complete the nego­ by Lawrence Charters tiations so we can move to our new Map to Meeting .......................... 14 Disk Libraries home. Swell Summer Software Stuff ... 15 Macintosh Disk Library ............. 58 Ourdesktopisjustsolarge;more compiled by Lorin Evans by Dave Weikert volunteers would help, but are not Get Connected-Cool Sure! ........ 16 Macintosh Disk Order Form ...... 70 as easy to recruit as SIMMS are to by Chad & Cheryll Ward find. We need a few minutes to focus Erasing the miles with e-mail .... 18 our attention on the relocation. Af­ by Lindsay Edmunds ter all, it not something we do very Zap! How your computer can often and once moved, we have to hurt you-and what you live with the decision for a while. can do about it ........................ 20 One area where we can acquire by Lawrence Charters some volunteer time is by combining Communication Station ............. 28 by Phil Shapiro the two summer issues of the Jour­ nal, July and August, into a single summer edition and redirect the Macintosh Articles volunteer time that goes into its pro­ duction to other pressing needs. So, All About System Update 3.0 ..... 21 Clean your mouse and trackball 23 weaskforyourunderstanding. Come by Kel Humphries September, we will be back on sched­ Artists on Exhibit ....................... 24 ule with more helpful articles on byAnnAiken using your computer, reviews, and commentaries. • The Journal of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer, Inc. The opinions, statements, positions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple Computer, Inc. 2 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 Advertising in the Journal ! Some Orientation Possibilities Washingto~ple Pi Full Page Third Page (verr.) 7.5" x 10.0" 2.5" x 9 .5" This issue of the Washington Apple Pi Journal was created on Sixth Page (hor.) a Mac SE/30, proofed on an LaserWr iter IINT, and produced 5.0" x 2.5" Third Page (hor.) by electronic typesetting at The Publishers Service Bureau. 5.0" x 4.75" •• The page layout program used was PageMaker 4.2a, the word processing program was Microsoft Word 5.1; rhe principal typeface is New Century Schoolbook ( l 0/12) fo r the articles; Half Page Two-thirds Page (verc. ) 7.5" x 4.75" 5" x 9.5" and Helvetica for headlines, subheads, and emphasis. Sixth Page ( verc.) 2.5" x 4.75" Cover Design: New W AP Journal cover design was created by Ann Aiken in collaboration with Nancy Seferian. The Capital artwork was illustrated by Carol O 'Connor for One Mile Up, which donated it for use on our cover. 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