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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 19 Jan 96 Volume 14 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
[*] A Mess O' Trouble v1.6
[*] AmourTendre TrueType
[*] BBEdit 3.5.2 Updater
[*] Bolo Map - Total.Carnage
[*] BrainHex 1.0: Mac Hexadecimal File Editor
[*] ChangeCase 1.2 XFCN
[*] Checksum 1.3
[*] Concentration ][
[*] CopyThru2.0
[*] csmp-digest-v3-132
[*] Home Accounting
[*] ISO Issue#10 Notify & Attchment
[*] MacZine International #3 - FANTASTIC
[*] MitoProt
[*] old-print
[*] Open Prolog
[*] PK3 1.0; my kid's game
[*] progressify-1.0; converts between baseline and progressive JPEG
formats.
[*] Prometheus Power
(Q) Ram Doubler enhancement extension/CP?
3 questions for you !
[A] 2 Macs 1 Printer
[A] DeskWriter 540 !!!HELP
[A] HP Deskwriter Printing Garbage
[A] Pulldown Menus
A: Word Font Confusion
Bizzarre Eudora problem
Color Stylewriter Pro
ColorSync on Stylewriter 2400
DeskWriter 540 !!!HELP PLEASE!!!
docc opens ap (A)
does appletalk talk in key events (Q)
Dual MacTCP setups
Geoport problems [Q]
Gray ppat needed
Hold down Menus
Icon changer?
Info-Mac Digest V14 #17
Mac CD's on DOS Burner (C)
modem init string
Popup Menus for Form Filling
PowerBook 5300 - is there a problem (Q)
Printer Going Crazy -Me Too!!
Quicken Updaters
Silence of the Duo210
System 7.5.1 on CD?
virtual screen
Virtual Screen s/w wanted...
What makes a doc open an app? (2 msgs)
Word 6.0 and Font Confusion
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:28 -0600
From: Marc Khadpe
Subject: [*] A Mess O' Trouble v1.6
A Mess O' Trouble is an adventure game for Mac OS. You play as either
Fearless Frank or Daredevil Dawn who must explore the tangled worlds of
Ray's Maze. You'll confront terrifying monsters, solve intricate puzzles,
and meet unctuous politicians. This is the third game in the Ray's Maze
series. The game features excellent graphics with an intriguing
multi-layered plot. The game was created with the World Builder adventure
game creation system by Ray Dunakin. The author asks a $10 shareware fee.
For more information email [email protected]. The game runs on all Macs,
but sound doesn't work on XL, AV, or PPC models. Version 1.6 adds some
additional hints and fixes minor bugs.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/mess-o-trouble-16.hqx; 1887K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:34 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jacques Bertrand)
Subject: [*] AmourTendre TrueType
AmourTendre Truetype and laser font - it is free.
AmourTendre means tender love in french. It is a font I created for
Valentine's day. It should do marvels with your love letters and
messages...
The font is complete with Upper and Lower cases and usual symbols and
diacritics. As AmourTendre is an Italic font in its regular version, it is
only available in regular and bold (by the way, who would use bold in a
love letter???). I hope you will like it.
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/amour-tendre.hqx; 217K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:31 -0600
From: [email protected] (Bare Bones Software)
Subject: [*] BBEdit 3.5.2 Updater
The BBEdit 3.5.2 update package has been uploaded to
daemon.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Incoming/. Here is the boilerplate:
Bare Bones Software, Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of an update for BBEdit, their popular and critically
acclaimed text editor. This updated version, numbered 3.5.2, features
significant new capabilities:
- enhanced HTML markup tools, including a new HTML tools palette for
"drag and drop" HTML markup and a "PageMill Cleaner" tool to correct
some HTML mistakes in PageMill-created code;
- a built-in HTML-aware spelling checker;
- enhancements to the built-in AppleScript support, including partial
support for the Apple Event Object Model for easier access to text in
editing windows.
The update also includes an assortment of bug fixes and minor feature
additions.
The 3.5.2 update is free for all owners of BBEdit 3.5; it may be obtained
from our Web page:
The update can also be downloaded from either of our FTP sites:
Finally, the update package has been submitted to MacGifts, and will
soon be available from info-mac archive mirrors, pending moderator
approval.
Bare Bones Software invites anyone interested in learning more about
BBEdit to visit their Web page at , or
to send them email at .
[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbe/bbedit-352-updt.hqx; 3279K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:56 -0600
From: [email protected] (Mike Lanham)
Subject: [*] Bolo Map - Total.Carnage
Just a simple Bolo Map for two players.
Good for a slow connection or quick game:
Small and open - Quick and Dirty.
Don't worry about silly copyright stuff; copy, distribute, abuse and send
me your frustrations.
Mike Lanham
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/total-carnage.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:44 -0600
From: [email protected] (BrainScan Software)
Subject: [*] BrainHex 1.0: Mac Hexadecimal File Editor
BrainHex is the world's greatest (and noisiest) hexadecimal file editor for
Macintosh. It allows you to view and edit the contents of either fork (data
or resource) of any Macintosh file in hexadecimal code. If you don't know
what hexadecimal is, you probably don't need this program. If you do, you
will find this tool indispensible.
Features
o Open multiple data and resource forks simultaneously.
o Create new files or new forks for existing files.
o Search and Replace forward and backward through a fork.
o Insert or overwrite data entered in Hex or ASCII.
o Jump to specified address, optionally extracted from selected data.
o Drag and drop any document or group of documents to the BrainHex icon for
easy opening.
o Custom font (Hexus, embedded in the Application) for viewing
non-displayable ASCII characters.
o Full-featured Finder Info editing dialog.
o Edit values in ASCII, Hex, Signed and Unsigned Decimal, Octal, Binary, or
Roman Numerals.
o Export Hex dumps as TEXT files.
o Printing Hex dumps.
o Extensive use of Balloon help.
o Launch open document to its creating application or an application of
your choosing.
o Open and edit Alias files.
o Undo of latest document-altering operation.
Brian "Brain" Fries
Partner / Left Brain
BrainScan Software
http://www.psyber.com/~brainscn
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/brain-hex-10.hqx; 436K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:49 -0600
From: [email protected] (Ben Lawson)
Subject: [*] ChangeCase 1.2 XFCN
ChangeCase XFCN 1.2. Copyright Ben Lawson, 1993-96. All rights reserved.
Free for personal use, shareware fee $25.00 (CDN or US) for professional or
commercial use.
The ChangeCase XFCN contained in the enclosed HyperCard stack
(compressed with DropStuff 3.5.2) takes text input and quickly (1000 times
faster than pure HyperTalk) returns that text with the case of its
characters changed according to the specified conversion method. This
version adds the "random" conversion method.
Options: flip (reversed), lowercase, random, sentence, title, uppercase
Syntax: ChangeCase(Container,,)
Example: answer ChangeCase("abc","Title") -- returns "Abc"
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/change-case-12-xcmd.hqx; 11K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:39 -0600
From: [email protected] (Geoff Walsh)
Subject: [*] Checksum 1.3
Here is the latest Checksum for the Macintosh, version 1.3. Checksum is the
ultimate Macintosh application for calculating checksums for a file. This
application is especially useful for comparing two (or more) files to
determine whether they are identical or not by comparing each file's
checksum. A checksum is a unique "signature" for a file. It is useful to
verify that a file downloaded is what it should be, and can be used to tell
whether files have changed over time. This application has proven very
popular for configuration management and quality assurance in large
organizations.
This utility is fully compatible with the Unix(tm) "sum" program (and the
POSIX "cksum" program), and the RSA MD5. It is even smart enough to
translate end-of-line characters between Unix, MS-DOS and Macintosh 'TEXT'
files. You can also use it to compare the performance of different systems.
Fully System 7 and 32-bit addressing compatible, including balloon help and
"drag and drop" capability. It will run under either System 6 or System 7
on a Mac Plus or higher, including the new PowerMacs.
New features in this version include the ability to calculate a total
checksum value for folders, no limit on the size of calculated results, and
the ability to format results for input to spreadsheet programs. Complete
documentation is provided in both TeachText and Acrobat PDF formats. All
users of previous versions should upgrade to this latest release.
Checksum is business-ware: it is freeware for personal use on a single CPU
and for educational institutions for instructional uses, but it must be
registered ($10) if used in a business, corporation, organization or
government. Site license information is also included. Users who have
already paid their registration fees are automatically registered for this
version.
This file can be distributed in software collections, such as CD-ROMs and
on-line systems. However, I would appreciate receiving a copy of any media
which distributes this software.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/checksum-13.hqx; 372K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:53 -0600
From: "Bishop_Dave"
Subject: [*] Concentration ][
This game is designed to help improve one's memory in a fun way. It was
written for three of my students who's original Concentration game (written by
who, I don't know) would not run under system 7. This release is a port to CPX
1.3. The source code is available from the Visual News (send requests to David
OM on AOL). This game is Freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/concentration-ii.hqx; 1697K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:43 -0600
From: [email protected] (Ben Hellstrom)
Subject: [*] CopyThru2.0
CopyThru v2.0 makes duplicates of HFS volumes with the option of
segmenting the copy through a fixed (or simply not-removed) volume. In
other words, it is a multi-pass block copier for removable media.
Say you have a single 1Gb removable-cartridge optical and 100Mb of
available hard disk space. You want to copy optical volume A: to optical
volume B:. If you drag sets of folders manually from A: to the hard drive,
eject, and then drag them from the hard drive to B: then it takes you 6
hours with 34 ejections & insertions. With CopyThru it takes a mere hour
and only requires 11 ejections & insertions!
CopyThru fills up your hard drive (or as much of it as you permit to be
filled-up) with blocks, ejects the source volume, requests the destination
volume, and then repeats until the copy is completed. Since it does
asynchronous block-copying, it is much faster than Finder-dragging.
Version 2.0. 680x0 Macs. 150Kb application partition, (but it swipes
all the system memory that you let it get away with!)
*Many* bugfixes since v1.5b. If v1.5b didn't work for you, try v2.0.
Additional features include:
- Now works with partition volumes
- Optional incremental copying (only copy those blocks that have changed)
- Smaller Desktop footprint
- Smoother timesharing
- Many bugfixes - not a "beta" anymore!
E-mail-ware. If you use it, send me e-mail and let me know.
Ben Hellstrom
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/copy-thru-20.hqx; 180K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:48 -0600
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-132
C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 18 Jan 96 Volume 3 : Issue 132
Today's Topics:
FYI: Web page with info on devloping MacOS Lotus Notes apps
How do I do ZoomRects?
How do I make finder show new contents of folder?
How to get default user name
Monitor Numbering
Restoring the Color Environment
Sprite Collision detection
char *pixel access; SwapMMUmode?
The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([email protected]).
[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-digest-v3-132.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:55 -0600
From: "Bishop_Dave"
Subject: [*] Home Accounting
This program automates the management and budgeting of your personal cash
registers (checking, saving, etc.). The source code (for CPX 1.3) is available
from the Visual News, send requests to DavidOm on AOL. Although the program is
shareware there are no fees with this development version. This version fixes
four bugs in the previous a4p3 release.
David Bishop
Internet: [email protected]
AOL: BishopD
CIS: 76657,2254
[Archived as /info-mac/data/home-accounting-a4p3f1.hqx; 3076K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:44 -0600
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] ISO Issue#10 Notify & Attchment
Due to MacWorld Expo this past week we had to bump the issue back
one
day. Hopefully you have been anticipating the information that we have
come
back with.
This issue we cover some of the HOT new STATUS functions in 3.0 and
give
you a full blown BONUS file from one of our contributors. We also give you
some more in-depth hints about your interface design.
Jon Rosen covers some issues related to printing invoices in the new
3.0
and there are some other tidbits of information covering undocumented
tips and tricks in 3.0
Finally to round things up you will find some powerful information
about
using colors in your databases and to top that off we highlight
everything that
we found useful and interesting at MacWorld Expo '96.
FileMaker ISO is a I&I production. You can find ISO on all of the major
online services as well as the Internet. First year subscriptions are free
to all users of FileMaker. Here is a list of the available sites.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/iso/iso-010.hqx; 262K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:42 -0600
From: [email protected] (Aaron Ghirardelli)
Subject: [*] MacZine International #3 - FANTASTIC
Hello,
here is the third fantastic issue of MacZine International, the first
italian e-zine dedicated to the shareware world of Macintosh, NOW IN
ENGLISH !
MacZine International is produced with DocMaker.
In every issue you will find a lot of reviews of the best shareware and
freeware programs for your Mac.
In this issue you will read the reviews of:
Graphic Converter
Apollo
Romi
Address Book
My Battery
Battery Amnesia
Startup Frills
Every review has full color pictures of the program tested!
Download it and ENJOY!
Ciao!
Aaron Ghirardelli
MacZine Coordinator
[Archived as /info-mac/per/maczine-003.hqx; 571K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:35 -0600
From: "Manuel G. CLAROS"
Subject: [*] MitoProt
Description It supplies a series of parameters that permit theoretical
evaluation on mitochondrial targeting sequences, as well
as two hydrophobicity related parameters that are important
for predicting the putative importability of a protein into
mitochondria.
Author Manuel G. Claros
Literature CABIOS 11, 441-447 (1995)
Notes This first software release is compatible with all the
Macintosh computers I have tested, having system 6.0.2
or later.
Bugs fixed:
# Fixed an error in the alerts about inconsisteces among the targeting
parameters
# Fixed a bug in the analysis of the amino acid composition
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/mito-prot-101.hqx; 72K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:40 -0600
From: Lawrence_D#213#Oliveiro
Subject: [*] old-print
Hi.
Enclosed is version 2.0d1 of Old Printing, my hack for selectively
reverting to the old printing architecture under QuickDraw GX. It is better
than the Apple-provided QuickDraw GX Helper in that it lets you use
third-party printer drivers.
New in version 2.0 is the ability to fool GX-aware applications into
thinking that GX is not installed. Some such applications (such as
Microsoft Word 6 and Excel 5) seem to have bugs in their GX-specific
printing code; by telling them to use the old printing interface (though
still printing through your GX driver), they may be made to print more
reliably.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
University of Waikato
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/old-print-20d1.hqx; 54K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:46 -0600
From: Michael Brady
Subject: [*] Open Prolog
Net friends, please find attached the latest version of Open Prolog -
1.0.3d26.
This replaces all previous versions, and has bug fixes, speed improvements, new
predicates and a prototype dialog box handler.
Open Prolog (OP) is a postcardware implementation of the Prolog programming
language for the Macintosh. OP uses the 'Edinburgh' syntax, the de-facto Prolog
language standard, and is close (and heading towards) to the new ISO Prolog
standard. OP supports most of the standard built-in predicates (including
Definite Clause Grammars), has automatic garbage collection and the assert /
retract semantics of Lindholm and O'Keefe. Notably, OP does not support real
number arithmetic [not yet] or internal database operations [not ever]. It runs
on all Macs from the Mac Plus, System 6.0.5 onwards.
Note: 1.0.3d26 corrects an important error in 1.0.3d23. In 1.0.3d23, retract/1
was determinate, whereas it should allow you to backtrack through all possible
clauses. 1.0.3d26 fixes this, gives more information on System Errors and has a
few improvements to the text editor. Some documentation errors are fixed too.
Best Regards
Mike Brady
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/open-prolog-103d26.hqx; 423K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:59 -0600
From: "Gary Kuroda"
Subject: [*] PK3 1.0; my kid's game
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/pk3-10.hqx; 3058K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:25:51 -0600
From: Sam Bushell
Subject: [*] progressify-1.0; converts between baseline and progressive JPEG
formats.
Progressify is a drag-and-drop applet for lossless conversion between
sequential-display (baseline) and progressive-display JPEG files.
Progressify requires System 7.0 or later. It runs in a significantly
more friendly manner if the Thread Manager is installed. (The Thread
Manager is built into System 7.5; if you are using an earlier version
of system software, you can get it from Apple's WWW sites
.)
Progressify is supplied as a "fat binary" and will run native on 68K
and Power Macintoshes and compatibles.
Progressify is Kindwordware. If you appreciate it, send me a kind word.
Sam Bushell
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/progressify-10.hqx; 142K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:45:47 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jason Cohen)
Subject: [*] Prometheus Power
Prometheus is a high level programming language designed for AI,
mathematics, logic, and list and string processing. This is the same as
Prometheus, but it is native Power Mac.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/prometheus-11-ppc.hqx; 387K]
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 22:17:25 -0500
From: "[email protected] (Robert C. Knighton)"
Subject: (Q) Ram Doubler enhancement extension/CP?
In a previous message, Robert Knighton writes:
=->
=-> Some time ago, about 1-2 years, I saw someone using a Ram Doubler
enhancement
=-> tool on their Mac. It allowed Ram Doubler to make the memory as much as 4
- 6
=-> times greater instead of the normal doubling. Does anyone know what it was
=-> called, where I can find it, and if I should use it or not? If I remember
=-> correctly, it was either an extension or control panel, not an
application.
=->
=-> Please E-mail me your response. My sysop expires the news rather fast, and
=-> I don't want to miss the response.
=->
=-> Thanks,
=->
=-> Robert Knighton
=-> [email protected]
Well! The response was fast, acurate, and vastly friendly
They wereeven informative!
So to summarize:The current application/Control Panel that can raise RamDoubler's memory
multiplier by a factor of 6. You need version 1.6 of MaxRAM from the
Info-Mac archive. This is a final version that works only with version
1.6 of RamDoubler. There was some question about whether or not it would
work with 1.6.1, but I cannot answer that as yet. If someone knows for
sure... RamPump was also mentioned, but the documentation leads me to
believe that it won't work with system 7.5 or RamDoubler 1.6.
Thanks everybody for your quick and incisive replys!
Robert.
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:26:20 +0500
From: [email protected] (Denis Gauthier)
Subject: 3 questions for you !
(excuse my english)
Hello all !
1) I have a PPC 8100/80AV, 28 meg of ram, system C1-7.5.1 (french canada)
and a 16" color monitor from apple.
I install the Stylewriter 2400 and when i print, the option COLOR SYNC is GRAY
(in the color button of the print dialogue) WHY ????
(this is the french version 2.0 of stylewriter 2400)
2) In Eudora 2.1.3, they have option to encoding attachements. Is it true
that the UUENCODE option encode only the DATA fork (not the ressource fork)
?
I try to e-mail me the Laserwriter 8.3 using UUencode and I receive a file
with 0 (zero)K (and the name was truncated to 8 character - LaserWri )
If it's true, I must compact the stuff with stuffit or compact pro and then
use the uuencode, right ?
3) On a PPC 7100/66 with 7.5.1 and a external drive.
-Start the mac
-active filsharing
-make some settings to share many folders (+-20) on the EXTERNAL drive
-restart the mac, all is good ! (sharing attribute still there)
-shutdown the mac, remove the external drive, restart the mac
-attach the external drive to another mac, copy some stuff on it......
-shutdown the first mac (the one with filesharing on), re-attach the
external drive, restart..........I LOOSE THE ATTRIBUTE FOR THE SHARING
FOLDERS
Why ?
Where is store these attribute (on what file) ???????
Thanks in advance
[email protected]
Denis Gauthier
Services de l'informatique et des telecommunications
Division Services a la clientele
Universite Laval, Quebec
e-mail : [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 08:45:10 -0800
From: [email protected] (Maurice "Mike" McNeil)
Subject: [A] 2 Macs 1 Printer
1) You mentioned both systems have modems, does this imply both rooms have
phone connections?
2) If so, are the phone connections at least 4 wire and are you only using
one phone number which uses only one pair of the lines?
Assuming enthusiastic yes answers to all of the above, you should be able
to use the installed phone lines for an Appletalk network. You will need an
appropriate number of appletalk connectors and phone line splitters.
The next question is: Is the LaserWriter NTR appletalk compatible? If so,
merely connect it into the Appletalk network. If not, you may still be able
to "share" it through the use of print share. You will need to connect the
printer to the modem port vice the printer port since that will be taken up
by the Appletalk. Check your manual on the procedures for printer sharing,
it is pretty straight-forward assuming you have the appletalk network.
Good Luck!
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:21:54 -0600
From: Tim Rand
Subject: [A] DeskWriter 540 !!!HELP
At 6:46 PM 1/17/96, [email protected] wrote:
>The problem with HP DeskWriter drivers is that they are complete memory ho=
gs.
>The advice that Connectix doles out with RamDoubler may help here.
>Before printing, fire up as many apps as you can, so that only about 800K-=
1MB
>of
>free RAM is left...then use background printing. The problem is that the H=
P
>driver grabs all available memory, and that screws things up. HP has been
>putting out great printers with lousy drivers for years. The 540 is no
>exception.
I agree. My experience is that with Virtual Memory turned on (on my Mac=
IIx) when I begin a page of print-out, there is 20 seconds or so of the=
hard disk churning and the system is unusable for that 20 seconds. I am=
sure that the print driver is going out and trying to allocate (or test)=
all available memory and with VM on, that means thrashing the disk for a=
while... not at all speedy or user friendly.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:28:28 -0700
From: [email protected] (Wil Clarke)
Subject: [A] HP Deskwriter Printing Garbage
I have an HP Deskwriter connected to a Mac II SI. Initially the printer
worked equally well plugged into either the printer or modem port. However
over two years ago it suddenly started printing garbage at the beginning of
every page I printed. It was plugged into the printer port. I switched it
to the modem port and don't get any garbage unless Appletalk is turned on.
However I have tried it recently on the printer port again and I still
always get garbage, regardless of whther I have Appletalk on or off.
I talked to an Apple guru I ask questions of about it. He figured that the
SI mother-board had started to go bad. I haven't replaced the mother-board
and this is the only problem that I can trace to it, except the standard
speakers-don't-work problem.
Wil Clarke
[email protected]
Math & Computing Dept, La Sierra University
Riverside, CA 92515-8247
Office: (909) 785-2548
Fax: (909) 785-2164
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:02:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (Larry Huntington)
Subject: [A] Pulldown Menus
We have seen the enemy and he is us....
Subject: A: Word Font Confusion
> Subject: Word 6.0 and Font Confusion
>
> My fonts are utterly confused in Word 6.0 (yes, I know I should upgrade,
> but, hey, I haven't). Going to the font menu in Word and selecting, say,
> Helvetica arbitrarily yields Klang, or whatever. It says Klang in the Word
> menu, and it klangs. Time seems to correspond to selecting Zapf Dingbats. I
> realise that I'm running inits that Word 6.0 doesn't like; but which ones
> are they? Surely this problem isn't unique just to my machine?
>
> Of course I checked other word processors. WordPerfect and even MacWrite
> Pro are perfectly happy and unconfused. So it's not just a trivial font
> conflict.
>
> Alf van der Poorten
> ceNTRe for Number Theory Research
> fax: +61 2 850 9502 voice: +61 2 850 9500 home: +61 2 416 6026
> Reply to: [email protected]
> Reply to: [email protected]
Same exact problem using W6.01. I disabled Now WYSIWYG menus and it now works
fine on a 660av.
On the 8500, it works ok with WYSIWYG.
Go figure.
[email protected]
John Collins
Newport Beach, CA
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 21:29:23 +0100
From: [email protected] (Riccardo Canetta)
Subject: Bizzarre Eudora problem
On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Luke Stein wrote:
>Now that I have a PM7200, and I got the PM
>native version, Eudora thinks these are all file attachments, and puts them
>as the data fork of a file. Does anyone know why this is, or how to fix it?
The problem isn't in Eudora, but in Netscape 2.0b: try to send a form from
Netscape 1.1 and you'll still find it in Eudora as a normal message; send
it from 2.0 and you'll get it in the attachments folder. Have a look at
e-forms, an applescript I developed to import in FileMaker Pro both type of
forms. It's in /info-mac/comm/tcp/web.
Sincerely,
Riccardo
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:56:14 -0500 (EST)
From: "Prof. F.M. Hoppe"
Subject: Color Stylewriter Pro
The Color Stylewriter Pro has three colour cartridges and a separate
black cartridge yet my colour cartridges get used up even though I am
only printing BW. Besides the cost, this is a great nuisance because the
Print Monitor then pops up to inform me that the magenta (say) is empty
and if I choose to continue printing then I have to wait for the print
heads to get cleaned and after five minutes or more of waiting I just
cancel the job. If I'm in a rush I can print a multiple page document
one page at a time. The stylewriter doesn't seem to mind an empty colour
cartridge in this cases but only complains when printing multiple
pages. I appreciate the cleverness of the printer, but I'd like
to be able to print BW only even when one or more of the colour
cartridges is empty. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?
Fred M. Hoppe
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:05:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (GPaquet)
Subject: ColorSync on Stylewriter 2400
Hello everyone. I can't get Colorsync to work- it remains gray in the print
dialogue box. Does it work without using Quickdraw GX? Thanks.
Gerard Paquet
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:45:50 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: DeskWriter 540 !!!HELP PLEASE!!!
A few more words about Hewlett Packard printer drivers.
Discussion thus far has touched on slow printing and machines hanging when
attempting to print large/long documents.
Mike and/or Wende Conwell said, "... I avoid background printing. HP's
implementation sucks, whether they admit it or not. So now I print in the
foreground only, appletalk off, with no problems at all. It would be nice
to be able to print in the background, but I am learning to live without
it."
I have learned to live with the HP 550C color printer I got when they first
came out; this is all very familiar territory to me. I couldn't agree more
with what Conwell says, HP's implementation sucks. I also have an Apple
LaserWriter and that makes it worse, by comparison -- because the LW works so
well. Tens of thousands of prints and never a burp. Design a page, send it to
the printer, it prints.
I tend to design complex pages, many photos and graphics and -- when printing
to the HP -- find it necessary to print, not only with background printing
off, but also one page at a time. A recent example: two pages, several
photos, graphics, etc. Send to HP and wait...and wait. Finally, get a message
that disk is full and it can't print. This with background printing off and
26 mgs of space on disk. Blaugh!!! Come to think of it, the same thing
happened when trying to tile a single page automatically. Double Blaugh...!
I have learned to NEVER print a QuarkXPress document to HP, particularly a
complex one without first saving a healthy copy. Additionally, the HP refuses
to live with Apple's SerialDMA 2.0.2 extension under any configuration.
So how are things with Epson printers? Or Canon...? I do need a new color
printer. I probably don't need a new HP color printer.
Cheers,
Joe Holly
MacHolly Land
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:21:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: docc opens ap (A)
Save a BNDL 1.3 is a drag and drop you drag ap on to reset bundle
bit, so doc can open ap.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:41:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: does appletalk talk in key events (Q)
I don't really know what I am talking about, because a lot of it
is probably apple proprietary, so I embarrassedly hope that some infomac
people will find the following groping discussion stimulating for a
thread. People should realize that great orchestrations come with some
groping, not merely at the turn of a radio dial and faucet or even out of
a can purchased at a superstore.
I have had a wierd experience with a home network which I
introduce below at length but brief as an open question in the subject
line.
Mac software uses the event record to process events and make the mac
interactive (with both people and things). In particular, when you press a
key on the mac keyboard or a communication program prints a character to
screen something is happening on another level (of thought). Something is
recorded in that event record.
That other level is what most folks don't have to think in, until
there is trouble because they have a peculiar system that wasn't just
"bought out of a can". I'd like to think this crowd doesn't simply buy
things out of cans, but actually wonders about what they already have.
I have a peculiar system (for a home). I have a mac network. It is
peculiar to me because I am not a network administrator or network techie
(yet).
What forces me to start thinking on this other level I am not used
to thinking in is the following. Every once in a while my peculiar system
doesn't accept either my keystrokes or com programs key events either and
this goes even so far as key controls such as arrow keys. Mouse events
work, but key events don't. All software subscribes to this event record.
I can't blame any software but apple's and since I am an honorable man and
not one to buy things out of cans, I don't blame apple either!
Now, I can fix my situation by rebooting and waiting for my entire
enormous init parade to go by, but I have found an easier way.
For several times, I have "reset" instead by simply turning
appletalk off and on. Today that didn't work. Then I remembered that I had
two computers and turned appletalk off and on on both of them. Then it
worked.
Evidentally appletalk also uses the event record and for some
reason flushes key events.
Why might I suspect that that would be built into the way
appletalk works? Could it be that appletalk is sending key events like I
networked my apple II + and mac plus so many years ago and so must preempt
other key events?
I'd like to rest now pat myself on the back and say I figured it
all out. But, I know better. Someday, I know that, even though I shall
turn appletalk off and on on both networked computers, and what I call
"key capture" still won't work.
So, instead I ask you all for similar experiences and better
words.
Maybe some of you have found this double reset didn't always work
already. Maybe you have clearer words why event records of different
computers must be tied up with appletalk networking. For example, things
could get royally confusing if two people could type to a text file at the
same time.
I won't find the clearer words myself and give it to you out of
the can, I give you the pride of maybe canning something for yourself! I
hope you are as excited as I am about the question.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 00:16:31 0000
From: Stephen Hall
Subject: Dual MacTCP setups
>
> Subject: Dual MacTCP settings?
>
> I have two internet accounts.But now I have two sets of gateway addresses for
MacTCP!
>
> I don't want to have to open MacTCP, change the info, then restart, every
time
I want to use one or the other server. Is there a w=
ay to keep two sets of MacTCP settings and just swap between them?
>
Check out John Norstadt's(?) MCP Switcher, a freeware utility that lets you
take
a "snapshot" of as many MacTCP setups as you want t=
o. I access two separate internet accounts from one machine, one personal and
the other my employer's. It requires switching my Conf=
igPPP configuration back and forth (using the toggle menu on the control panel)
to dial the corrct number with its user ID and passw=
ord, then simply double-clicking on the appropriate MacTCP setup, which I keep
in my Apple menu items folder. (The MacTCP Switcher d=
ocumentation says you may have to restart your machine but this has never
happened on my LC630.) Then I click on connect in the Conf=
igPPP control panel and dial in to the Net. Total elapsed time is about 10
seconds. I obtained MacTCP Switcher from the MacWorld sit=
e.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:19:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "Christopher Nathaniel Montague (Christopher \"Monte\" Montague)"
Subject: Geoport problems [Q]
I just recently picked up a Geoport for a bargain, but now it seems it
wasn't worth what I paid for it.
I'm trying to connect to my campus mainframe using MacPPP and Netscape,
and whenever I get to the contact established area of PPP, the computer
bombs, and the geoport starts clicking repeatedly.
I've called Apple's tech people, and they mentioned that the geoport
might get confused when the fax extentions are turned on. Well, I turned
them off, and the whole thing worked! ONCE.
I've also noticed that the geoport is a bit slower than other 14,4's that
I've come across, and I find this a bit strange. Aren't they supposed to
be a little faster?
Thanks for any help you send my way. Please send it to
[email protected]
Chris Montague
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 03:55:39 -0800
From: [email protected] (Paul Brians)
Subject: Gray ppat needed
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 gives instructions for color calibrating your monitor
which involve setting the desktop pattern to light gray (a fine
black-and-white checkerboard) pattern using the general controls CDEV.
However, I am using System 7.5, and the new desktop pattern CDEV does not
include this particular pattern. Before I get out ResEdit and try to
extract it from a computer running System 7.1-a daunting prospect-does
anyone have this pattern as a ppat already which you could ship me, or have
a quick and easy way to import it?
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:38:27 -0800
From: [email protected] (Gary Minato)
Subject: Hold down Menus
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #17
>>My fonts are utterly confused in Word 6.0 ...
>>Of course I checked other word processors. WordPerfect and even MacWrite
>>Pro are perfectly happy and unconfused. So it's not just a trivial font
>>conflict.
>
>Is it possible that you have an early version of "Adobe Type Reunion"
>installed in your Mac? Or perhaps the prefs for ATR is corrupt - try
>to delete it (or use the share-/freeware "Type Disunion" on the info-mac
>archives which resets everything).
Close. the extensions Type Reunion and Now Utilities WYSIWYG do the same
thing. Turn off one of them and your problem should disappear.
Lawrence A. MacDonald [email protected]
MacDonald Ventures
Venture Capital/Strategic Marketing
------------------------------
Date: 18 Jan 1996 12:42:42 -0500
From: "Peter Jorgensen"
Subject: Mac CD's on DOS Burner (C)
>If there is no way to "burn" the CD master on the Intel and have it usable
>on the Mac, this person will have to acquire the newly-available Mac
>version of Corel CD Creator, and cobble up a SCSI connection to the
>Intel's internal-mount HP CD writer. Surely there is an easier solution?
Most of the CDs we create on our Mac-based systems are for DOS use. One more
reason to use Macs rather than WinTels.
Peter Jorgensen
The opinions expressed are those of the author.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:37:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "Prof. F.M. Hoppe"
Subject: modem init string
I have a Global Village Teleport Platinum (28.8 kb) modem attached to my
Mac II. I get my connection using Mac TCP, PPP, and Config PPP (v. 2.0.1
configured with a port speed of 57600 and flow control set to cts and
rts). My init string is at&f1 and I am able to autodial to my provider
and to use Eudora, Fetch, Netscape, Mosaic, Newswatcher successfully.
But I wonder sometimes, when my browser takes a long time to complete a
document or when Fetch likewise takes a while to list the contents
of a large directory, if my throughput is truly 57600 or whether I
mightn't need something extra in my init string.
I'd be grateful to hear from other owners of this (or other Global
Village) modem(s) to learn what init strings they are using and with what
results.
Thanks in advance.
Fred M. Hoppe
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 09:42:42
From: "Robert Sachs"
Subject: Popup Menus for Form Filling
I am doing research on developments in user interfaces. I'm trying to locate
information about the use of popup menus/ drop down menus for data entry in
fields. These are very popular today (e.g. particular every Mac and Windows
product, such as Word, FileMaker etc.). I'm trying to find the *earliest*
documentation of this type of user interface element.
I'm not interested in information about current products.
I am interested in software on *any platform*, not just Macs.
If you can identify specific products, that were available in or before 1985,
please let me know.
In addition, if you have user manuals, or remember reading articles in Byte,
MacWorld, MacUser, that would be great information.
Thanks for your memories.
Bob Sachs
[email protected]
(415) 858 7110
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:40:54 +0000
From: [email protected] (Antony D'Emanuele)
Subject: PowerBook 5300 - is there a problem (Q)
I lost my PB180 in a flood over Xmas and am about to get a replacement. I
was considering the PB5300c, however, in this weeks UK MacUser there are
reports of both hardware and software problems with this computer.
Apparently there are a some system problems. Apparently there is a System
software update available for the US but I read somewhere that this will
cause problems on UK models (not sure whether this is true or not). Anyhow,
my question is aimed at owners of the PB5300 series. Have you had serious
problems and would you recommend them. If I do go ahead can I use the US
update?? I also want to get an optional MO drive (Fujitsu make a plug in),
has anyone had any experience with an MO drive in a PB5300??
Thanks in anticipation.
Tony D'Emanuele, Manchester, UK [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:58:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Donald Wayne Rasmussen
Subject: Printer Going Crazy -Me Too!!
I have a Mac 6200CD and StyleWriter 1200. When not on-line, printer works
fine. But when I attempt to make just one copy of my e-mail on-line (for
example), I get an unending steam of paper showing garbage that I never
wanted printed indicating a huge backlog of print commands somehow being
initiated from as an unknown source.If I must live like this OK but two
things would greatly help: (1) How can I print while on-line bypassing
the print command? I tried the clipboard but,so far, can't figure out how
to get more than one screen on the clipboard. (2)I'm really prepared to
live without printing but is there any way to terminate the everbuilding
print commands my printer is receiving for somewhere? Apple and the
university (my Internet provider) and every soul I've been able to
buttonhole for a month so far haven't figured this problem out.Any ideas?
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 19:26:17 -0500
From: Paul Duckenfield
Subject: Quicken Updaters
There is some confusion over what all the Quicken Updaters that I posted
actually are. Here is a list that I hope will get rid of some of the
confusion:
This file includes help and data file updates for Quicken 6.0 Deluxe (CD)
Edition. All the files contained in this archive will go in your Quicken
6 Folder if you have the Quicken 6 Deluxe version.
This file includes help and data file updates for Quicken 6.0 (diskette
version). All the files contained in this archive will go in your Quicken
6 Folder if you have the Quicken 6 diskette version.
This file contains updaters for both Quicken Deluxe and regular Quicken
6.0 and will only work on the Fat Binary version of Quicken 6. To find
out what version of Quicken you have, while in Quicken, go to the Apple
Menu and select "About Quicken." When the splash screen appears, press
the "R" key. Information about your computer and Quicken will appear. If
the version type is listed as "68k or PPC" then you need this updater.
This file contains updaters for both Quicken Deluxe and regular Quicken
6.0 and will only work on the PPC version of Quicken 6. To find out what
version of Quicken you have, while in Quicken, go to the Apple Menu and
select "About Quicken." When the splash screen appears, press the "R"
key. Information about your computer and Quicken will appear. If the
version type is listed as "PPC" then you need this updater.
This file contains updaters for both Quicken Deluxe and regular Quicken
6.0 and will only work on the 68k version of Quicken 6. To find out what
version of Quicken you have, while in Quicken, go to the Apple Menu and
select "About Quicken." When the splash screen appears, press the "R"
key. Information about your computer and Quicken will appear. If the
version type is listed as "68k" then you need this updater.
------
Again, sorry for the confusion and the inconveniece.
------
Paul Duckenfield
The College of William & Mary
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:06:02 -0500
From: Robert Gray
Subject: Silence of the Duo210
Since I installed System 7.5 and Update 1.0 my Duo210 has gone silent! No
beeps, no downloaded sounds, no sound of any kind except the startup noise
(the one sound I could live without... With System 7.1 and Update 3 it was
fine. Sound control panel claims to be version 8.0.3 and there is no Sound
extension. Is this correct? Any clues would be appreciated. I have
reinstalled the Sound control panel from the system disks and trashed the
preferences to no effect. Volume is set to max. Oh yeah, when I would
expect a sound the menu bar flashes black. What gives?
---
TTFN, eh!
Robert Gray
http://www.carleton.ca/~rgray/
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: 18 Jan 1996 17:17:55 -0700
From: "D. Oberst"
Subject: System 7.5.1 on CD?
I was wondering whether anyone who has bought a retail package of System =
7.5 received a CD which had the System 7.5.1 update on it? Someone here =
in town just got a 7.5 package which still had 7.5.0, and I don't know =
whether it was old stock or whether Apple has never updated their =
distribution CDs. It is a real pain when installing a new drive to have =
to then install the 7.5.1 upgrade, the new NSI, Appleshare client, etc.
I know that new PCI Macs come with a 7.5.2 CD-ROM, but that doesn't =
count, since it isn't recommended for non-PCI machines.
Thanks - David Oberst/NWT Bureau of Statistics/Yellowknife, NWT, =
Canada
[email protected] [Explore Canada's Arctic]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:48:44 -0400
From: [email protected] (Alain Chabot)
Subject: virtual screen
Hi
A friend of mine is in a predicament best summarized in his own words.
I leave you with his sad story. His address is:
[email protected] (Ernie Cassidy)
I need a copy of the old Stepping Out II virtual screen software. I
contacted Berkeley Systems, but they no longer sell or support this
product, and wouldn't give me a copy. I need the virtual screen capability
to do full-page ad layouts on an SE-30 with the original 9" screen (Don't
ask why; it's too complicated and no one would believe the reasons why I
need to do this.)
The Tech support person at Berkeley suggested Virtual or Virtual Desktop,
but these require System 7. Does anyone have an old copy of Stepping Out II
they could upload to me (or park where I could download it)? Since it's no
longer sold or supported, I don't think we're doing grievous violence to
the license agreement.
Failing that, does anyone know where I can find shareware (or commercial)
software that will do what Stepping Out does, but works with 030 processors
and System 6.7? Oh yeah, if anyone is thinking of BigScreen Init, I already
tried it; works great with MacPlus or earlier machines, but crashes
horribly on the SE-30.
Hoping for the best. Thanks to anyone who can help me out.
Ernie Cassidy - Church Point, Nova Scotia
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 03:29:32 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Virtual Screen s/w wanted...
I'm looking for some software which will use regualar RAM (as opposed to VRAM)
and create a "virtual" screen larger than my actual 17" monitor (preferably 19"
or 21"). I've tried "Virtual Desktop" but I find it cumbersome (you have to
hold down a modifier key to move across the virtual desktop) and although it
will create a screen twice or three times as large as your real screen I hate
the fact that it does so with the real screen centered in the MIDDLE (as
opposed to the upper left hand corner where it should be) of the virtual
screen. I need the larger screen during programming to properly size windows
which are being designed for a system with a 21" monitor.
Normally I would just buy more VRAM since my 17" monitor can emulate higher
resolutions than 832x624, but my Performa 630 is NOT VRAM-expandable.
Any comments one where to find software similar to what I've described would
be most appreciated (I used to have some such thing back in the 9" MacPlus
days, but that was more generations ago than I care to count...
.While I'm at it, if anyone knows of another alternative to the Xceed PDS video
board for the P630 for monitors > 17", I'd be curious to know about that as
well...
Please reply to me directly as I'm no longer as religious about reading Info-
mac as I once was...
MUCH thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 16:10:45 0000
From: Minus van Baalen
Subject: What makes a doc open an app?
Ad Herwijer wrote
> My conclusion is, that there must be some place where the link between the
> Microsoft Word 5.1a file (or any MSWD file for that matter) and the Microsoft
> Word 6.0.1 application has been stored before version 5.1a was installed on
> this
> machine. But where? What (preference) file is responsible? In other words:
How
> can I make Word 5.1a the default application for MSWD files after the system
> (or
> Microsoft) has decided that Word 6.0.1 is the way to go?
These links are kept in the DeskTop file by the Finder. My experience is that
the last version of the applicaton installed has precedence. Thus what I would
do is (1) trash Word 5 while keeping 6 (2) rebuild the desktop (3) reinstall
Word 5. Hope this helps. Minus van Baalen
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:19:12 GMT
From: [email protected] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: What makes a doc open an app?
"Ad Herweijer" wrote:
>Today an old question came up (perhaps an FAQ unknown to me): What makes a
>double-clicked document open its associated application?
The TYPE/CREATOR info which is stored with the document and the
application.
>The problem is: whatever Word file one double-clicks, it starts up version
>6.0.1. Even an authentic 5.1a file just created, starts up and is opened in
>6.0.1. Word 5.1a has an icon alright (be it that it is the icon of version
>6.0.1) and dropping the file on it opens it in 5.1a. But at a double-click the
>file denies its origin and opens version 6.0.1.
The CREATOR for Word 5.1a and 6.0.1 are the same, so the Mac looks for
an app with the same CREATOR and opens the one it finds first.
>...My conclusion is, that there must be some place where the link between the
>Microsoft Word 5.1a file (or any MSWD file for that matter) and the Microsoft
>Word 6.0.1 application has been stored before version 5.1a was installed on
>this machine. But where? What (preference) file is responsible? In other
>words: How can I make Word 5.1a the default application for MSWD files
after >the system (or Microsoft) has decided that Word 6.0.1 is the way to go?
No idea how Microsoft "hacked" it, but I have a solution for it, although
this may not be a very elegant one.
(1) Always open the application first and then the document from
within the application
or
(2) Compress the non-desired version with a utility like StuffIt,
DiskDoubler, CompactPro, etc. Then, if you need to change, you
compress the other one and de-compress the first. Time-consuming,
but it works.
Good luck, Christian.
[email protected] - http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 23:44:41 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: Word 6.0 and Font Confusion
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #17 [email protected] (Christian F. Buser) wrote:
>[email protected] (Alf van der Poorten) wrote:
>
>>My fonts are utterly confused in Word 6.0 ...
>>Of course I checked other word processors. WordPerfect and even MacWrite
>>Pro are perfectly happy and unconfused. So it's not just a trivial font
>>conflict.
>
>Is it possible that you have an early version of "Adobe Type Reunion"
>installed in your Mac? Or perhaps the prefs for ATR is corrupt - try
>to delete it (or use the share-/freeware "Type Disunion" on the info-mac
>archives which resets everything).
>
>Just a guess.
Alf, just another guess, and a suggestion...just in case...
The guess: these are TrueType fonts? and not PS (as I don't see one of the
fonts you mention, Klang, in my catalogue of PostScript fonts--OK it's
old;-)
If they _are_ TrueType then try this: download Apple's Font/DA Mover v.4.1
from utilities at support.apple.com. I know, a blast from the System 6
past, but v.4.1 "sees" TrueType fonts, it came along with the TrueType
init. (Ah, where are the snows of yesteryear;-)
In problems like this with Word I've found TT Helve to the be principal
offender, but to be safe let's include Times and Courier as well: copy
these three font suitcases out of your Fonts folder (in your System Folder)
on to the desktop, and make a Finder duplicate (Command-D) of all of them.
Save your top copies somewhere. At this point you could combine all the TT
and bitmap files in each suitcase into one font suitcase, for convenience.
Run Font/DA Mover 4.1. The fonts currently accessed by the system will
appear in its left hand panel. Hit the Open button under the right hand
panel, and select Desktop, and open that combo suitcase you've just made.
All the Helvetica, Times and Courier files will appear in the right hand
panel. Select them all and copy them into the left hand panel, thereby
copying those files into the System file itself. Quit Font/DA Mover.
Trash those copies on the desktop. Run Word. If I'm correct here, your
font problems will have gone away.
Every time I help set up a new Mac I hope this problem will have gone away,
and (for me) it hasn't. Info-Mac'ers, let's compile a bug list entitled
"Problems no-one ever talks about..." (Top of the list was the Finder
Rename Delay bug...
Ob: MS thinks the Mac is still using System 7.0x..... {:^ )7
--Bill Stanford
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[email protected]
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[email protected]
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