[From Hank Folson (930101)]
A recent post asked about strange characters in posts written on Macintoshes
The problem is the "Smart Quotes" option that MacWrite II and Word have as a
Preferences menu item. If Smart Quotes is enabled, the character that the
Internet picks up is not the ASCII ' or ", but something else, like a "U" or
"?". The MacWrite II manual (page 3-5) offers interesting solutions.
Mainstay Software is introducing a major upgrade to its "Visual Interactive
Programming", an automated code writing program. They claim that IBM PC
based C programs can be converted to run on the Mac using this program. I
intend to upgrade my copy of V.I.P., and will try it out when it is
available (First quarter of '93) and report to the Net.
Trivial hint for MacWrite II users: Try typing COMMAND-G and also COMMAND-;
when formatting your posts and adding hard carriage returns.
Happy New Year to All, Hank Folson
Henry James Bicycles, Inc. 704 Elvira Avenue, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
310-540-1552 (Day & Evening) MCI MAIL: 509-6370 Internet: 5096370@MCIMAIL.COM