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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 21 Oct 98 Volume 16 : Issue 191
Today's Topics:
(C) MacOS 8 first impressions
(Q) batch conversion of MS Word (PC) to Mac
(Q) FreePPP
(Q) Mac Mail order
(Q) Macsbug meaning?
(Q) Monitoring TCP/IP communication
8.5 and accellerated clones
[A] 1 GB max
[A] Lost sound
[A] What is the maximum length for a Serial Cable?
[Q] Internet-telephone for 840 AV
Apple Audio CD problem
Control Strip management?
Eudora lite 3.03 Address book
Fast scrolling
Fwd: "Insufficient System Memory to Run Word"
Have I got a memory leak?
Help! Convert Database to Quark 3.3
hidden hard drive activity
How to View TidBits Files?
Is there a Java decompiler?
Need to update browser!
Print Lag from Hell - HP LaserJet/ ends at G3!
profiles and filters in Communicator 405
Retrospect and Autodoubler
Soft Windows on Mac?
TCP Equivalent to Chooser Entry AppleShare
Tiger Electronics and Apple = Learning Computer?
Unimplemented trap and other woes
What is the Name?
Y2K YEAR 2000 DATE FIX IS HERE NOW
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:46:36 -0400
From: abrody
Subject: (C) MacOS 8 first impressions
Dear Digest readers,
OK I popped into CompUSA today, and found at least twenty copies of MacOS
8.5 in one stack. And what do you know? They were able to compete with
MacWareHouse's $89 discounted price for package, even though the label on
the product said $99. Although I think this is only for the next few days,
if even that. That price was before state tax.
Clean installation went smoothly. It even gave me a running estimate in
minutes of how much longer before the installation was complete. Nice
touch!
The real nice thing about MacOS 8.5 is that QuickDraw is finally PowerPC
native. By golly those windows ZOOOOM. I feel like I've been living in the
dark ages with horse and buggy, and the trains started coming. If nothing
else, having a PowerPC native QuickDraw will make your work more productive
as you won't spend all your time opening applications and windows.
Sherlock is great, not only giving you the link that searches fall on, but
also the link that other links fall on. It too is really fast when
compared to using a web browser.
The Application menu has an old touch from MacDraw...Tear off...and now low
and behold a Tilery like window appears, only it is a floating window on top
of all applications.
Even old Quicken 5.0 is acting as if it is PowerPC native, now that
QuickDraw is working well. Remarkably, so is Easy Alarms 2.1.
Starting the Mac up now takes less time already.
It may not be a G3 I'm running (I still have my trustworthy 7200/75), but I
finally feel like I am. Maybe that's what Steve Jobs meant by a new
computer coming out. It is a faster computer on your existing computer.
That's almost like a new one.
I wish it were possible to integrate Kaleidoscope with the new Appearance
Manager. Maybe for the next upgrade.
For all the details on the upgrade, visit http://www.apple.com/macos
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:02:24 +0700
From: Rich Garella
Subject: (Q) batch conversion of MS Word (PC) to Mac
I have about 400 files written in MS Word 6 and 7 for PC, which I need to=
convert into MS Word 5.1 for Mac. A move in the right direction, but I wish=
I could do them all at once. I searched the archive for a utility with no=
luck. Lots of more obscure conversions, but not the one I need. Any ideas?
--Rich
___________________________________________
( Rich Garella - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
) NEW ADDRESS: [email protected]
( http://www.mindspring.com/~garella/rich
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:15:20 -0400
From: abrody
Subject: (Q) FreePPP
Dear comp.sys.mac.digest readers,
Another survey... While I have found that on my PowerMac 7200/75 with MacOS
8, 7.6, and 7.5.3, and 7.5.2 all prior being on the system I have not been
able to run FreePPP, I've heard some people have had no problems at all.
As I am the Mac support technician for my internet provider I have been
consistantly telling people to stick with OT/PPP and MacPPP depending on
which system they use.
If you do use FreePPP and it has had no crashes nor disconnects which
settings do you use:
Mac model:
MacOS version:
Additional INITs and their version numbers:
Modem model and speed:
Average Fetch or Anarchie speed in downloading in bytes or kbytes per
second:
Initialization string setting in FreePPP:
Tone or Pulse phone:
MacTCP or OpenTransport version #:
Virtual Memory on or off:
RAM Doubler/SpeedDoubler/RAM Charger present:
Once I can get a general consensous on what works and what doesn't I will
post my results in a file on the info-mac archive.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:05:53 -0400
From: abrody
Subject: (Q) Mac Mail order
Dear comp.sys.mac.digest readers,
I've been reading the digest since 1991, and was curious:
besides:
PC/MacConnection
MacWarehouse
ClubMac
MacZone
LLB
what other mail order companies have you found provided consistant reliable
service.
I've heard a few horror stories regarding MacMall, Shreve, and The Bottom
Line. Are there others I should attempt to avoid or easy to go with?
How is Otherworld Computing?
Or MacMarket?
Is Tiger Software still good?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:20:07 -0400
From: Tom Coradeschi
Subject: (Q) Macsbug meaning?
D. Scott Beach:
>Listfolk:
>Whenever I get kicked into Macsbug for the last while, I seem to be getting
>the same information displayed:
>
>You have duplicate dcmds named r2db
>You have duplicate dcmds named atvb
>You have duplicate dcmds named drd
>You have duplicate dcmds named pp
>You have duplicate dcmds named findsym
If you check the backissues of TidBits, you'll find a 2 installment article
on understanding what comes out of Macsbug.
tom coradeschi [email protected]
http://k-whiner.pica.army.mil/
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 01:33:24 +0200
From: Jacob Palme
Subject: (Q) Monitoring TCP/IP communication
Is there any way in which I, on a Macintosh, can monitor
the communication between an application and a server. For
example, I would like to be able to see the exact lines of
text which are sent by Netscape when accessing a URL and
the exact lines returned back from the HTTP server.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jacob Palme (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:38:03 +0100
From: glaston
Subject: 8.5 and accellerated clones
Can somebody please tell me if OS 8.5 will work on my Power Computing
604/132 which has a NewerTech MaxPower Pro 750 daughter card. I would of
course like to know as soon as possible and this is the only community
available to me with that information.
TIA
glaston
Glaston
-Mind how you go.
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:48:13 +0200
From: Patrik Montgomery
Subject: [A] 1 GB max
On 98-10-13 21:34, Info-Mac used quantum mechanics and the General Theory
of Relativity to draw the conclusion that:
>Hello all,
>
>I was wondering if anyone out there could point me to some references
>and/or could help me out with the followiwng question:
>
>It is possible to address a maximum of 4096 MB of RAM under a 32 bit
>addressing system such as the MacOS and as far as I know the Macintosh
>supports such a huge amount of RAM. But now I read somewhere that Apple
>reserves 3 GB of those 4 GB for drivers, graphic buffers etc.
>So far I have found only one reference of this i.e. in the glossary of GURU
>under the lemma '32 bit addressing'.
This is not really Apple's fault, it is inherent of how Motorola designs
their microprocessors. There are two ways of handling I/O from a
processor. One is the Intel way - make specific instructions for a number
of I/O ports and conect external units accordingly. The other is the way
used by the rest of the industry - don't bother with specific
instructions for I/O. Instead, address all units - including memory - in
the same way. If you want to send info to some I/O unit, you "write" to
the appropriate address. If you want to get info, you "read" from it.
The reason Intel does it their way is that it enable more RAM on an
equivalent address length (and because that's how they've always done it,
they are slow to change in those quarters). The reason Motorola does it
their way is that it allows more flexibility when attaching external
units - a small reconfiguration of the motherboard is all that is needed
to enable more, different, ports. It is no coincidence that Intel designs
motherboards for the whole PC industry (with some exclusion - Compaq has
been known to design their own boards, and IBM, but that's about it),
while most Mac cloners back in those days designed or at least modified
boards for themselves. It sure generates profits for Intel this way...
To sum things up - there is nothing you can do. If I understand
correctly, though, 2 GB should be the limit rather than 1, and the G4 is
rumored to change this as well. How does 9.2 EB (Exabytes, 10^18 bytes)
sound to you? OK, so it's only rumors, but we can always dream...
Patrik Montgomery // [email protected]
[email protected]
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming
in panic, like his passangers" -- Anonymous
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:48:16 +0200
From: Patrik Montgomery
Subject: [A] Lost sound
On 98-10-13 21:34, Info-Mac used quantum mechanics and the General Theory
of Relativity to draw the conclusion that:
>Help please.
>
>I can't get any alert sounds - just a flash of the menu bar.
>
>At least, this is the case when I don't have RAM doubler installed. With
>RAM doubler the alert sounds work fine. So it looks like a tight memory
>problem. But with what, and how do I fix it?
>
>When I go to the "monitors and sound" control panel, the check box comes up
>"mute". I can uncheck it, but it rechecks itself if I then do anything to
>cause a sound.
This sounds like either your Monitor & Sound control panel or its
preferences has been damaged. Trash both and try reinstallation.
>
>OS System 7.5.3 on a Powerbook 1400c. Don't suggest OS 8, on which most of
>my existing stuff will not work.
OK, so I won't suggest it. I will think it, though. How does 7.6.1 sound
to you (no pun intended)? You could propably get it pretty cheap these
days, with 8.5 hot on the shelves.
>
>I sometimes run with RAM doubler not installed because of a conflict
>between it and MacSLIP, which no-one appears to have any answers for.
MacSLIP is old and has not been updated for a while. If there is any
possibility that you could use PPP instead of SLIP, I think you should
try it. PPP is faster and better, and OT/PPP is IMO very stable.
Patrik Montgomery // [email protected]
[email protected]
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming
in panic, like his passangers" -- Anonymous
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:48:17 +0200
From: Patrik Montgomery
Subject: [A] What is the maximum length for a Serial Cable?
On 98-10-13 21:34, Info-Mac used quantum mechanics and the General Theory
of Relativity to draw the conclusion that:
>I have an Epson PhotoEX that is hooked up to my printer port (on a Power
>Computing Power Center 150) and I want to place it on a desk at the back of
>my space. To do this the cable has to go quite a distance.
>
>Just wondering what the maximum length of the cable could be. I looked on
>the Apple web site, but couldn't find anything.
>
>The Epson is NOT localtalk-able, so it has to be a direct cable from the
>Mac to the printer.
The maximum length of a serial cable is somewhere between 1000 and 3000
feet, depending on cable quality. That should be enough
Patrik Montgomery // [email protected]
[email protected]
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming
in panic, like his passangers" -- Anonymous
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:35:11 +0200
From: [email protected] (Lars Christian Jensen)
Subject: [Q] Internet-telephone for 840 AV
Could anyone direct me to a site where I can find an try out-application
for Internet-telephony working on a 840 AV. I have tried Vocaltecs
Internet Phone 68 K - but for some reason it will not work with
660/840AV Macs.
TIA
Lars
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:21:42 -0400
From: Dale Keiger
Subject: Apple Audio CD problem
Help, please...I recently installed System 8.5 on my PowerMac 7100/66.
It runs like a beaut, but for one thing. When I first booted after the
installation, the Apple Audio CD Player worked just fine. It hasn't
worked since. I click on the icon, and it tells me that I don't have a
CD-ROM drive hooked up. I can tell by the behavior of the drive that the
computer is no longer reading it. Why might this have happened? Why
would it work perfectly immediately after installation of the OS, but
fail to work now? Is there an extension that it requires, besides the
Apple CD extension, that I may have disabled? Could I have a conflict,
and if so, is there an easier way to track it down than the old
turn-on-one-and-reboot trick? Anyone who has any ideas, I'd be grateful.
Dale Keiger
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:59:07 -0400
From: Randall Meadows
Subject: Control Strip management?
At 2:36 PM -0500 10/15/98, Vincent Cayenne wrote:
>Is there any utility which gives Control Strip management capabilities as
>Extension Manager does for Control Panels?
>
>I use Location Manager to orchestrate my use of a PowerBook 1400 in
>multiple environments (home, client site, two different office locations)
>and under different circumstances (acceptable noise levels, T1 or dial-up,
>differing ISPs, etc.
>
>And now there's Contextual Menus Manager to help me deal with the CMMs.
>
>So is there anything for Strips?
Conflict Catcher 8 from Casady & Green will do these, and more (extensions
and control panels; System Folder items; fonts; startup and shutdown items;
Apple Menu and Contextual menu items; Location Manager modules; OpenDoc
parts; Illustrator, MSIE, Netscape, Photoshop plug-ins; and QuarkXPress
XTensions).
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:22:45 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: Eudora lite 3.03 Address book
I would like to set up groups in Eudora so I can write a message and send
it out to several people at once. Some people are in several groups. Can
I do this?
(Adam...are you listening oh God of Eudora?)
Also, for some reason I cannot make the help functions work to save my
life. The menu is up there on the top of the screen and the topics pull
down but nothing appears. I've put the help data and help file in the
Eudora folder in my system folder
Thanks for the help
Don(8.0 by the way) but nada.
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:48:18 +0200
From: Patrik Montgomery
Subject: Fast scrolling
On 98-10-13 21:34, Info-Mac used quantum mechanics and the General Theory
of Relativity to draw the conclusion that:
>
>On my PowerMac 7300 with OS8.1, the scroll speed has suddenly jumped to
>high speed so it is uncontrollable. I recall a similar problem with an
>earlier system, OS 7.5 or so, but I have not seen this problem since then.
>I checked for possible INIT conflicts, but the problem is there after a
>startup with extensions OFF. What can cause this, and what is the cure. All
>I can think of is to reinstall the system, and I'll do that as a last
>resort. Any other ideas?
Funny. My first suggestion would be to use Techtool, free from
http://www.micromat.com/, to check your system integrity and Zap the
PRAM. Zapping the PRAM the usual way, using command-option-P-R propably
won't help - this seems to be a problem where your system is
misinterpreting your hardware, and that requires (usually, anyway) a
super-zap.
Patrik Montgomery // [email protected]
[email protected]
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming
in panic, like his passangers" -- Anonymous
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:16:55 -0500
From: Vincent Cayenne
Subject: Fwd: "Insufficient System Memory to Run Word"
> =8Akeeps going to sleep when he leaves it alone
> =8Atakes up to two minutes to wake back up.
I hope it's not but, check for the autostart worm. WormScanner's in the
Info-Mac archive, you can use that.
---------
"Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts"
(Rutherford/Robertson)
Vincent Cayenne
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:48:19 +0200
From: Patrik Montgomery
Subject: Have I got a memory leak?
On 98-10-13 21:34, Info-Mac used quantum mechanics and the General Theory
of Relativity to draw the conclusion that:
>Wise Listfolk:
>I'm running OS 8.1 on a 7600/132 with 80Mb RAM. Virtual memory and RAM
>Doubler are not running.
>Every now and then, I'll check my "About This Computer..." and find that
>once the used RAM and the largest unused block get added up, I'm 10 or 20
>MB shy of my 80Mb.
>I want to leave virtual memory off so I can get better performance out of
>Virtual PC, audio and video digitizing.
>My work-mate tells me that without virtual running, the Modern Memory
>Manager isn't used and that's why the numbers aren't kept track of quite
>right. Does this sound right? I thought it was always on even though the
>Memory control panel in OS 8.1 no longer says so. Any suggestions to solve
>my problem would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
It works like this: Under OS 8.1, the Modern Memory Manager is always on,
but that doesn't affect anything here. Turning on RAMDoubler will fix
this, VM is good under 8.1 and might fix it too, but you are right -
neither should be used when digitizing audio/video.
So, what has happened? You RAM is fragmented! Thik of it this way: When
you start your machine, your System and Finder load in the lowest (and
highest) parts of your RAM, leaving as much space as possible free. Let's
say you start program A, then program B. These add memory usage after
each other. Quitting program A will not relase any RAM to the system.
Why? Because the free RAM is in two blocks, and a program needs its RAM
in one block.
Quitting program B will now release all the RAM occupied by both A and B.
But sometimes, you cannot quit B. One common example is whe connecting to
the Internet using PPP. With standard settings, you start Navigator (or
whatever), which then loads TCP/IP. Quit Navigator and your RAM is
fragmented. TCP/IP doesn't unload itself.
There are several ways of fixing this:
1. RAMDoubler notices this and uses the lost RAM as part of its doubling
scheme. You won't really notice.
2. VM will map the inaccessible RAM to your HD and recycle your real RAM.
It will show up the same in your "About..."-box, but if you only use
programs that would fit in real RAM without memory fragmentation, the end
result will be the same. This is the approach taken by other OSes
(beginning with a W), only they don't tell when the RAM is fragmented,
because you really don't need to know (to be honest, NT can move RAM
about to clear up memory fragmentation, but it usually doesn't have to,
and thus doesn't)
3. Avoid fragmenting in the first place. Start the program you use the
most first, then the second most used and so on. Only quit the program
furthest down the line. For the TCP/IP problem described above, your best
path would be to upgrade to OS 8.5 which fixes this. You _can_ unload
TCP/IP under 8.1 and earlier by using Macsbugs, but I don't recommend it.
Check the few latest editions of Tidbits for more info.
If you want to stay with 8.1 and avoid this problem, do this:
* Open TCP/IP, select "User mode" from the Edit Menu. Set that to
Advanced and close the box.
* Hit the key "Options" in the topmost window.
* Uncheck "Load only when needed", close that box and TCP/IP
* Open PPP and hit "Options" again.
* Click the "Connections" tab and uncheck "Connect automatically when
opening TCP/IP applications".
That should do it.
OK, that's long, but I have been asked this question several times
lately, and I thought this was called for.
Patrik Montgomery // [email protected]
[email protected]
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming
in panic, like his passangers" -- Anonymous
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:51:24 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Help! Convert Database to Quark 3.3
Our University publishes a telephone directory. We have to
manually enter all the data into Quark Express 3.3 since
the prepress requires that.
Since we keep the information in a database(DBaseIII now)
it would be far more efficient to somehow convert the
database into Quark's format.
Is this possible? How do you do it?
The prepress guys didn't know, the manual doesn't mention
it, and I know very little about Macs.
Help!
Thanks,
Phil D'agostino
Systems Engineering
Maharishi University of Management
Fairfield, Iowa 52557
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:58:15 -0400
From: John Hachey
Subject: hidden hard drive activity
Hello,
I get worried whe my hard drive whirrs away for no apparent reason.
While it was happily spinning and slowing down my system, I used More About This Macintosh to see what was running.
A hidden thingy called CleanerAppCFM68k seems to be responsible for all the activity.
Anybody Know what business this thing has making for all that disc activity??
Thanks, John
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:32:22 -0600
From: Ted Logan
Subject: How to View TidBits Files?
Probably asked and answered a hundred times, but how do I view TidBits
files on my hard disk? They are .etx files and seem to default to
something called Easy View, which I downloaded a year ago for some setext
files, but Easy View won't open the TidBits .etx files. I have to run
Claris Works to convert them, so I figure I'm missing a step somewhere.
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:57:45 -0400
From: Will Wagers
Subject: Is there a Java decompiler?
Hi,
Is there a Java decompiler for the Mac?
thx
Will Wagers [email protected] "Reality is the best metaphor."
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:11:11 -0400
From: David Michael
Subject: Need to update browser!
Hi. I am trying to get my LC575 to run Navigator 4.0 and am having
difficulty. First my story. In an effort to increase my browsing fun, I
have just installed a new memory chip. My machine is maxed out at 32MG, and
I would like to run Netscape's Navigator 4.0 but when I downloaded it from
their site and tried to run it I was informed that I had to have at least
7.6.1 on my machine to have the browser work. I currently have 7.5. I found
a site where i could update to 7.5.1 but first I had to have 7.6. My
question is where can I find 7.6. I have searched Apple's site but to no
avail. Any help would be very much apperciated. Thanks in advance.
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:49:44 -0400
From: "Jim (James G) Hardwick CPA"
Subject: Print Lag from Hell - HP LaserJet/ ends at G3!
981019
Monib, I have just made an interesting discovery, using my new G3 PB/266
(reeeeeally fast; mushy keyboard). This new one prints fast as h___ to my
Laserjet 4MV, at least using word/excel! What gives? Is it the G3
processor vs the 132mhz in my 9500 desktop? Still working over ethernet
10baseT. And the 132 still takes much longer.
Whodathunk?
jh
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:46:27 +0200
From: Henrik Brandendorff
Subject: profiles and filters in Communicator 405
Hi, all
First of all: my apologies if this question already has been asked and
answered - haven´t seen it, though...
I´ve tried to set up Communicator for my wife and me, without getting another
account. I thought I was clever writing a signature file for her, saying "put
'Susanna' in the subject so the message gets filtered to me", then setting up
two mail filters in her profile. I named the first "not susannas mail"
ordering the program to "ignore the thread" where the subject did *not*
contain 'susanna', the second was (maybe redundant) if subject contains
susanna then move to inbox (still in her profile). Well, ignored threads are
not left on the server. They just don't show up in the inbox - until you
choose "view ignored". Has anybody got a solution for this - any other mail
readers that solve this problem? Heh... you can answer by e-mail if you want -
I have disabled Susannas filters.
TIA
Henrik Brandendorff
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:51:31 +0200
From: "Michael S. Silverstein"
Subject: Retrospect and Autodoubler
I presently use Autodoubler 2.04 on a PMac 7600/120 running 7.5.5 with a 1
GB hard disk and use Retrospect 2.1A+ for backups.
Currently, I must restart with the Autodoubler CP removed in order to back
up or else Retrospect finds an 'error' in every backed up file. Turning
Autodoubler 'off' does not seem to work.
I would like to upgrade to the new Retrospect but will not do so if this
conflict between Retrospect and Autodoubler still exists. Has anyone out
there used the new Retrospect with Autodoubler?
Since Autodoubler no longer seems to exist (I know not why) is there a
replacement out there or do people just buy larger hard disks?
Would Norton Utilities Backup be an alternative choice to Retrospect (I
have found no conflicts with Norton)?
Thanks in advance for your advice!!
Michael Silverstein
Materials Engineering
Technion
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 01:36:42 -0500
From: [email protected] (Grant Peacock)
Subject: Soft Windows on Mac?
I would appreciate any feedback on the following idea - I would like our
next computer in the house also to be a Mac (this one is a PowerMac
7100/66) but it probably will have to run several PC applications, eg:
FileMaker Pro. Is this Soft Windows that I've heard about, but not seen, a
real option? Just how powerful a Mac do you need for it to be reasonably
effective (not blazingly fast, just reliable). My research indicates the a
company called Connectix may be able to offer a version of this software
also.
Is this realistic? Or is it still better to stick with the dictum `PC's to
run PC prgms'??
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Grant.
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 03:38:36 -0500
From: Vincent Cayenne
Subject: TCP Equivalent to Chooser Entry AppleShare
At 8:34 AM +0100 on 10/15/98, Andy Ockrim wrote:
> Does anyone
> >know how NT Machines do it amongst each other? Because from an NT Box in
> >our Net I can access all servers, also those in other buildings.
You might find the DAVE product from Thursby Software Systems
of particular interest. Does NetBIOS & TCP/IP. File &
Print Sharing. Log in to NT shares, Act as an NT workstation. Messaging.
See Samba.
And the administrators don't have to make anything mac-specific!
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 08:07:41 +0700
From: Noah Sager
Subject: Tiger Electronics and Apple = Learning Computer?
While examing the interesting Game.Com system (at Toys 'R' Us),
a nearby toy computer caught my eye. It is called the
Tiger Learning Computer. Looks alot like a PB 5XX.
Yes, like a PB 5XX, but look at this!...
Located between your palms and on the cover of the thing is
a sticker. The sticker read "Apple Technology" and had an Apple
logo. Spooky? Guess what else it had:
An AppleWorks 4.3 cartrige!
What looks like multiple MECC programs:)
A SCSI port!
A PC serial port:(
A port I don't reconize:(
Sound and video jacks for a TV!
It costs $169.95!
Does anyone know more about this mysterious computer?
If you work (or live near) a Toys 'R' Us, it is located on the
same shelf as the Game.Com.
I am _very_ courious about this thing. Anything anyone
knows would be great! I'll post a summery of replys.
Noah Sager
mailto:[email protected]
--- --- --- ---
Written on an aging PB 180. The five-year-old computer that
publishs web pages, reports, and still has no bad pixels!
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:03:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Michael Rank
Subject: Unimplemented trap and other woes
I have a Performa 475 and have had continuous problems with it over the
last few years. Not only did I buy it with a printer that never worked
properly (had to buy a new one) and have the power unit go on me (cost 150
pounds to replace) but I have also had lots of software problems. None of
this makes me an enormous Apple fan but I would be very glad if someone
could help me sort out my latest problems and thereby make me more
enthusiastic about what is supposed to be a great computer.
My latest problems are:
1. When I download a Netscape page onto my hard disk and try to read it
later I get a bomb message that says system error, unimplemented trap
(wotever that may mean) and I have to restart the computer without being
able to read the file. I use Netscape 4 (4.03 I think) and have no prob
using Netscape online but not being able to read pages offline is very
annoying. This problem first arose after a viewing a magazine cover disk
(MacFormat, Nov '98) in case that is relevant.
2. I have an external TEAC CD Rom player with CD-Rom Toolkit software. It
often tells me that it cannot read various CD Roms (magazine cover disks)
that I install even though I have had no problem with them previously and
am pretty sure the disk itself is okay. This problem is somewhat sporadic
but annoying.
My ISP is rather at a loss what this all means but thinks it may be a
problem with the hard disk rather than software. If that is the case is
there anything I can do or will I have to take it to a repair shop for yet
further heavy investment? I tried Disk Firstaid which said problems were
found but start up disks cannot be repaired.
I am an ordinary home user without a degree or even a high school diploma
in Macology. I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions as to how to
resolve these problems. You may even persuade me that a Mac is not such a
bad piece of kit after all!
Many thanks,
Michael
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:04:14 -0500
From: Gib Henry
Subject: What is the Name?
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:45:39 -0600
> From: Keith Hamilton
> Subject: What is the Name?
>
> There is a liitle control panel or extension that will clear dialog
> boxes
> from your screen at a certain amount of time? What is the name of it?
> Where can I find it?
>
> example
>
> I have restarted my computer, but I have Pagemaker running. Now I get
> the
> popup that says:
>
> Don't Save Cancel Save
>
> The program I'm talking about hits return and the default button is than
> pressed.
It's called Okey Dokey Pro. Not sure where you can find it, but it
should be version 2 or higher. Cheers
--
Gib
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