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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 2 Feb 96 Volume 14 : Issue 31
Today's Topics:
[*] 02-96 MacAssist Tips/Tutorial
[*] MIDex 1.1; a BBEdit tool
[*] star-trek-ufp-startupscreen
[*] TEXT Converters 1.0 (J)
[*] Tower of Babel; Text Conversion Utility for Macintosh 1.3
[*] Unicorn Editor
[*] wpls2rtf-sit
7200/90 printing problems
[A]: How to Launch Word 5 instead of 6?
[A] How to launch Word 5 instead of 6
[A] Partition utility for IDE Hard disks?
[Q] Also having "Word won't launch" problem on PwrMac
[Q] Daily organizer
[Q] Font Management Software
[Q] IIci slowdown
Basically BASIC
Claris Emailer->Easy View [A]
ConfigPPP Launches Self???
consolidations and removal to file and digest submission
Desktop Launchers
font limitations and Quark XPress
Info-Mac Digest V14 #28
ISO Issue#11 DELAYED
Kodak DC40 digital camera
Major drive problems
Microsoft Basic
Open Transport help????
Password when I boot my Mac
PB520 Battery/Charging Problem
Printer information request
problems with printing [A]
Question re Netscape and/or System Folder (2 msgs)
qwk mail answer
Radius Rocket & IIsi
Resedit
Sim-Bill file
Solutions for dead video in Performa 475
TristeQTMovie.sit.hqx and DrummerZ bossa nova
unstuffing a single item
Update: Global village disconnects
upgrading the CPUs in a Performa 640 CD
Wayne's World Sounds
WordFinder and MS Word 5
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:24:55 -0600
From: Steve Mack
Subject: [*] 02-96 MacAssist Tips/Tutorial
This is the latest issue of the hot new newsletter "MacAssistant Tips and
Tutorial".
Continuing with this issue are hot links via NetScape to some critical
Macintsoh Web Sites and new software releases from various sources. This
feature is mainly intended for those people that have full internet
accounts. However, there are some very useful URL's for those that do not
have separate internet accounts. You can manually type these into your
browser.
The MacAssistant Tips and Tutorial Newsletter only has tips and tutorials
plus an occasional puzzle. I do not do reviews in this newsletter. While
reviews are useful, I feel that a newsletter that actually tells you how
to use your your Mac more effectively is much more useful to the novice
and intermediate users. It includes many tips about using your Mac and
even a puzzle when you need to take a break. The tutorials are
accompanied by graphics that help to understand the article. This is a
shareware product that has even more information and tips for those that
register. This is a short, fascinating download well worth the time.
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!
Visit my home page at
[Archived as /info-mac/per/mass/mac-assistant-tips-96-02.hqx; 119K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:57:03 -0600
From: Olav Brinkmann
Subject: [*] MIDex 1.1; a BBEdit tool
This BBEdit extension translates characters from/to the Macintosh charset
to/from ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) or DOS (code page 437).
It uses J.P. Kuypers' translation tables for the Mac-ISO-translation.
The Mac-DOS translation tables are mine and work quite well at this state.
Please send me any suggestions/corrections.
Usage:
The conversion can be done in place, to a new window or
the converted text can be copied to the clipboard.
(See the about box for how to select these options.)
If there's a selection, MIDex will act on the selection,
otherwise it will process the whole window.
Notes:
MIDex is now a tool and therefore requires BBEdit 3.5.2
The translation code and tables have not been changed since 1.0b5.
Viele Gr=FC=DFe,
Olav
[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbe/midex-11.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:24:30 -0600
From: [email protected] ([email protected])
Subject: [*] star-trek-ufp-startupscreen
[Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/star-trek-ufp-pict-rsrc.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:38:06 -0600
From: Michael Terry
Subject: [*] TEXT Converters 1.0 (J)
Given read-only or read/write SimpleText files, they convert them to
read/write and read-only files, respectively.
There are already utilities that do that - what does yours have to offer?
The utility to convert read-only files back to read/write has a nice
feature for locked disks, like CD-ROMs. When encountering a locked volume,
it will start up the Scriptable Text Editor and read in the read-only
file=BCs text into a new window.
These utilities are scriptable and can process whole folders and volumes at
one time.
Minimum requirements: System 7.1
[Archived as /info-mac/text/read-write-utils-101-jp.hqx; 136K]
[Archived as /info-mac/text/read-write-utils-101.hqx; 89K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:56:40 -0600
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Tower of Babel; Text Conversion Utility for Macintosh 1.3
Tower of Babel simplifies the transfer of plain text files
between different system platforms.
It converts line break characters as well as high (>127) and
low (
Subject: [*] Unicorn Editor
Welcome to Unicorn Editor, my styled text editor based on the
WASTE text engine. It is a small, easy to use program which fill the gap
between SimpleText and a full featured word processor. For oriental
people, it fills a void for a stand alone styled text editor for double
byte language with built-in font and input method support. Unicorn Editor
v1.0 is a ShareWare ($10). If you like the program, please support
shareware concept by paying the registration fee.
This WorldScript compatible style text editor for both 68K and
PPC Macintosh is back engineered based on the features of the popular
Tex-Edit Plus. Because both Tex-Edit Plus and Unicorn Editor use WASTE
text engine, one should find that the two programs share a lot of
similarities in the text editing features. While this program is not
exactly the Tex-Edit Plus yet, especially in sound and picture handling,
the text handling is further enhanced with various Chinese code set
translation and input method support and custom bitmap font support. The
program was writen in C and compiled with CodeWarrior 8.
In a word, the position of the Unicorn Editor, just as the
popular Tex-Edit Plus, is somewhere between a full featured word
processor and the SimpleText editor. It is a very good text editor for
2-byte language with built-in font and input method support.
Best regards,
Xiaolin Zhao
[Archived as /info-mac/text/unicorn-editor-10.hqx; 962K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:59:59 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jeroen Scheerder)
Subject: [*] wpls2rtf-sit
WPLS2RTF is a file conversion utility to convert First Word Plus (a word
processor commonly used on Atari ST computers, and not-so-commonly on
other platforms) files into Interchange Format, aka Rich Text Format
(RTF).
The full release -- wpls2rtf.sit.hqx (145kB) -- consists of
documentation, Macintosh, DOS and TOS applications, CodeWarrior 8 (Mac),
Borland C (DOS) and Pure C (TOS) project files, MPW and Unix makefiles,
sample translation configuration files, the sourcefile and everything
else that's needed to build the thing just about anywhere.
Written and submitted by JS , ;
credit is due to Leonard Rosenthol , Marshall
Clow and Stephan Somogyi
without whose nifty DropShell 2.0 framework the Macintosh application
wouldn't have been such a minor effort.
Enjoy, J.
[Archived as /info-mac/text/wpls-to-rtf.hqx; 185K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 21:35:59 -0400
From: [email protected] (Dietmar Lichota)
Subject: 7200/90 printing problems
This is sort of cross posting but I got not much info from IO-MUG. Can
anyone point me in the right direction for fixing the serial port problem
with the 7200/90? I have Serial DMA 2.0.2 installed and everything worked
fine for a while. A few hours later and the serial port is too busy with
some application that isn't open. It's driving me crazy and may be driving
my friends to purchase a, dare I say it, w**t*l machine because it couldn't
possibly be any more difficult to set up. I've been a dyed-in-the-wool mac
user for almost a decade and never have I had so much problem. Even a clean
install of the system did nothing. I haven't tried zapping the PRAM or
rebuilding the desktop, (just thought of it) and I'm waiting for Norton
Utilities to arrive but surely I must be doing something wrong or did my
friends just buy a lemon (on my recommendation)?
Here's hoping something positive comes of this, a week of frustration and
not being able to print something more than a few times.
btw, I've tried calling sos-appl more times than I care to think of and got
the busy tone each time. Perhaps I'm not the only one having problems with
this heretical beast.
Dietmar
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:16:06 -0500
From: [email protected] (Rob Costain)
Subject: [A]: How to Launch Word 5 instead of 6?
Raimund Lammersdorf wrote:
>>>Ideally, what I am look for, for myself and some of my colleagues, is a way
>>>to have both Word 6 and Word 5.1 on the hard disk but have Word 5.1 be the
>>>one that launches, if we double-click on a Word document (no matter which
>>>version it was created in).
>Why not create aliases of Word 5.1 and Word 6, put them somewhere on the
>desktop and then, instead of double-clicking a word file, drag and drop it
>on the appropriate alias.
>BTW, I think Word 5.1 wont open Word 6 files anyway.
Two things:
1) Word 5.1 will open Word 6 files if you have the Word 6 for
Windows&Macintosh converter in the Word Commands folder. It will not see
them as 'Readable files' in the Open dialog box, but will open and
translate them if you drag them to the Word 5.1 icon in the Finder or
select 'All files' in the Open dialog.
2) I have found that if you launch Word 5.1 before double-clicking any
files, they will open in Word 5.1 rather than launching Word 6. Rolf's
solution of having an alias for both versions on the desktop is a good one.
Launch Word 5.1 first and you can double-click away!
Cheers,
Rob Costain, M.A. Student in Educational Technology, Concordia University
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 07:14:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Peter Gingiss
Subject: [A] How to launch Word 5 instead of 6
I would compress Word 6 with SpaceSaver or DiskDoubler. In this way, it
will be available, although it will launch a bit slower, but double
clicking will launch Word 5.
---------
Peter Gingiss Tel: 743-2974
Department of English Fax: 721-3654
University of Houston
Houston,Texas 77204-3012 [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:37:41 -0100
From: [email protected] (Manolo Matos)
Subject: [A] Partition utility for IDE Hard disks?
It is a bit funny to answer my own question, but thanks to John Reynolds
([email protected]) I now know that Drive Setup 1.0.3 from Apple does
the trick. According to Apple's information, this program only works on
PowerMacs (including Performas), in Macintosh 580- and 630-series systems
and PowerBook 190 series. The utility can be found using Archie search for
(238k)
Manolo Matos, Dept. Bioquimica, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 21:06:30 -1000 (KST)
From: Capt J Dagle 607AIS/INT 784-8919
Subject: [Q] Also having "Word won't launch" problem on PwrMac
I am also having the problem where I can't launch MS Word 5.1 immediately after
startup as several people have described (Not enough memory. Try reducing
Word's RAM). I'm running RAMDoubler 1.6.1 on a PowerMac 6100. Modern mem
manager is on, of course I can't turn 32 bit addressing off.
Can anyone assist?
Jon Dagle
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 21:16:13 +0100
From: [email protected] (Paolo Galante)
Subject: [Q] Daily organizer
Which is the best Daily Organizer for the Power Macintosh (freeware or
shareware), that has phonebook, daily and weekly scheduler, plus other
tools like dialing, etc.?
Thanks
-- Paolo Galante
-- Architect
-- San Vito al Tagliamento, PN, Italy
-- E-mail: [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 22:55:11 -0600
From: Paddy Atherton
Subject: [Q] Font Management Software
Florin Neumann wanted to know how to get Suitcase (or any font manager) to
work with System 7.5.1.
I do know the conflict with *7.5.2*--if you "Custom Remove" the
WorldScript extension(s), Suitcase 2.1.4p3 works just fine (amazing, for a
gizmo that hasn't been updated since the Gulf War
.For System 7.5.1, I got out my pure Suitcase 2.0 and put it through all its
evolutionary upgrades to 2.1.4p3, then dropped it into the System Folder. We
have two 7100s, and this has worked perfectly.
Alternately, you could give up and go to Master Juggler. You can use it just
like Suitcase (open fonts as needed) and/or make up sets of fonts you need.
What I like about MJ's sets is that they're *external* (like aliases), and so
if
MJ goes south you don't have to recreate all your sets again.
Don't bother with the rest of the AlSoft Utilities package--it's useless at
best--but for $30 Master Juggler is a completely stable and updated font
manager (even supports GX!)
Paddy Atherton
Frostbite Falls, MN
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 19:03:48 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: [Q] IIci slowdown
Dear Mac-Infomeisters,
I have had a problem with my MacIIci lately. I got it for Christmas, and
recently it has been acting up. For unexplicable reasons, it slows down to
the point where it takes a minute and a half to open teach-text. I am
running sys 7.0.1P What I just noticed is that i don't have the tuner
installed. I will get to doing that soon, but anyway: the only way I can
find to solve the problem is by reinstalling the system suitcase. I made
this easy on myself just by putting a stuffed version on my hard drive, but
it really is a minor inconveniance and it would be great if you guys can help
me. I know all odds are against it, but could it be a virus? Maybe the
little bugger is doing a bunch of calculations while teach text boots and
makes the computer slow to a crawl. Thanks everyone.
[email protected]
P.S. how many people read this mailing list anyway?
-> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Eval:23Apr95
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 07:08:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Peter Gingiss
Subject: Basically BASIC
If Microsoft Basic no longer works, there are, in addition to Chipmunk
Basic, two commercial, products, both from small companies. One
is VIP Basic from Mainstay and one is Future Basic II from Staz software.
---------
Peter Gingiss Tel: 743-2974
Department of English Fax: 721-3654
University of Houston
Houston,Texas 77204-3012 [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 17:59:15 -0500
From: R Shapiro
Subject: Claris Emailer->Easy View [A]
>This is a unique problem to the Info Mac digest. The reason it occurs is
>because the digest that is sent out is designed to be read by multiple
>systems, but it breaks the correct rules of MIME. Therefore it shouldn't
>work with any MIME compliant e-mail program. Apparently, Eudora ignores
>the MIME boundry command which allows digests to work on Eudora. Emailer
>follows the standard, so the Info-Mac digest doesn't work. The only
>solution is for the Info-Mac moderators to correct their format
Not quite the only solution. MailConverter can do pretty well with this
format, although it may still make mistakes (since the format is not
unambiguous). By using it with the direct Eumorpha connection, you can
burst info-mac digests directly back into an Emailer mail folder (with a
single drag!) -- which some people may find to be preferable to using
EasyView anyway, since it gives you access to the messages in a full mail
program, not just a viewer (a nice viewer, definitely, but just a viewer
nonetheless). Both MailConverter and Eumorpha are available from info-mac.
You can also get the digest from comp.sys.mac.digest and the separators
will be intact.
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:11:42 -0300
From: [email protected] (Fernando Triveri)
Subject: ConfigPPP Launches Self???
>Could someone help me figure out why ConfigPPP launches itself every couple of
>days? I leave my computer on for fax purposes. I now have the terminal session
>window come so it doesnot connect with the script. What sould I do besides
>turning the computer off. I would like to leave the script on so my not so
>computer literal family members have easy access to the NET.
Some versions of MacPPP tend to start up the connection alone. I've had the
same problem before and I solved using Hard Close instead of Soft Close
option when turning off ConfigPPP.
Hope this helps you!
Fernando Triveri
[email protected]
Cordoba - Argentina
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 15:50:17 +0000
From: Paul Sheldon
Subject: consolidations and removal to file and digest submission
Please note my final submission that folds credits to DrummerZ and renaming
TristeQTMovie to TristeMidiMovie. Perhaps you will want to remove the digest
submission talking about drummerZ since I folded it in and also remove the
TristeQTMovie thinger without a header.
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:02:21 -0800
From: [email protected] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Desktop Launchers
At 11:25 PM 1/31/96, The Info-Mac Moderators wrote:
>MacChat or TidBITs had a multi-issue review of these sorts of utilities a
>while back, maybe six months ago. You might want to look in some of the
>back issues. However, as with anything in the computer industry, if it's
>six months old, big chunks are out of date already.
TidBITS - issues #275-278
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1995/
cheers ... -Adam
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:34:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: font limitations and Quark XPress
>Using Quark XPress, any non-apple font (fonts that didn't come with the
>system software or the Apple Font Pack) refuse to work after a restart. I
>can boot the machine and install new fonts (either TT or PS) by dropping
>them on the system folder (and allowing them to be placed in the font
>folder). After installation, I can boot up Quark and the fonts look great
>on-screen and on paper. After a restart, they are no longer accessible by
>Quark, but all other programs can use them flawlessly.
>
>The second fold of this is that I just installed Now Utils, Now Contact,
>and Now Up-to-Date. I had been running Suitcase to handle my font load, but
>it doesn't seem to like to run with the new additions to my system folder.
>I would really love some utility that would let me break the 128 fonts
>barrier without using Suitcase.
You won't want to hear this, but the Now stuff is almost certainly your
problem. The Now Toolbox conflicts with more software than anything I
know of. Remove it--all of it--and see if your problems disappear. Almost
all of the Now features can be duplicated via small, clean,
single-purpose share/freeware extensions anyway.
I use Suitcase with very few problems. There's also Master Juggler--a bit
more complicated to set up, but perhaps cleaner. Finally, the limit is on
font suitcases, not fonts, so you can bypass it by putting several fonts
in one suitcase. But Suitcase or Master Juggler is still a much better
solution.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected])
Creative Services, St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page at:
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:02:16 -0800
From: [email protected] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #28
At 10:48 PM 1/31/96, The Info-Mac Moderators wrote:
>[APS does not sponsor info-mac. I talked to Doc and he got TidBits and
>info-mac mixed up. -Gordon]
Yeah, we're easy to confuse at night.
cheers ... -Adam (TidBITS editor and Info-Mac moderator)
--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [email protected] -- [email protected]
Info-Mac Moderator -- Apple Internet Users/Providers Assistant List Mom
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:21:26 -0600
From: [email protected] (Info-Mac Archivist)
Subject: ISO Issue#11 DELAYED
On 1/31/96, [email protected] wrote:
>From: [email protected]
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 20:54:06 -0500
>Subject: ISO Issue#11 DELAYED
>Apparently-To:
>To: [email protected]
>
>Date: 1/31/96
>
>Dear ISO Readers,
>
>Due to the fact that ISO is still a voluntary publication and that part
>of my personal life
>affects my timeline with ISO I regret to say that ISO Issue#11 will be
>delayed for a couple
>of days. While my current target still remains on Tuesday it has been
>getting more difficult
>to meet the demands based on other work that I have to do (for a living).
>
>However, don't fear. ISO is merely adjusting it's schedule to match mine.
>I will still be putting ISO
>out with the same quality content and FileMaker drive. My commitment to
>the information that
>you like to receive is still standing firm!
>
>In the upcoming months I will be making some changes. Most of which you
>will hear about
>in the next issue #11.
>
>Please look forward to the issue coming out on Friday or next Monday at
>the latest.
>
>I appreciate your readership and hope that this has not inconvenienced
>you.
>
>Thanks A Lot!
>
>Matt Petrowsky, ISO Editor
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 14:40:33 EST
From: [email protected] (Timothy Husson)
Subject: Kodak DC40 digital camera
I am not able to get my Power Mac 7100 to talk to the
Kodak DC40 digital camera. The camera is O.K. because
I was able to get it to talk to a Windows machine.
I have tried both serial ports, tried turning off all
extensions (kodak tech support's idea), and re-installing
the software.
Anyone have a similar experience with this device, or have
any ideas of things to try?
BTW, I have 24MB of memory in the Power Mac and am running
System 7.5.1.
Tim Husson
Naval Research Laboratory
(202) 767-2738
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:39:25 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected] (F. Neumann)
Subject: Major drive problems
> I have 3 hard drives, 1 of which I am trying to recover, and an
> internal CD-ROM drive. When I try them in various combinations,
> strange things happen. I own a PowerMac 6100/60.
>
> Here are the drives:
>
> 300MB Internal 160 MB Internal CD-ROM Internal 1GB External
> System 7.1.2 7.5 7.5
> ID 0 ID 0 ID 3 ID 5
>
> I don't have the jumpers to change the IDs of the internal drive, so I
> couldn't boot the two internal drives together.
This looks like a fairly complex setup and I'm no expert, but to my mind,
before doing anything else, do something about the SCSI IDs. Two devices with
the same ID on same SCSI bus means trouble, even if one of them isn't powered
on. Next, check the termination problem. Internal drives are normally
terminated, so you probably have a terminated drive in the middle of the
SCSI chain.
Hope this helps, Florin
--
Florin Neumann
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:46:33 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: Microsoft Basic
In Info-Mac Digest #14, 29, [email protected] (William D. Thompson) wrote:
>In Info-Mac v14 #26, Tristan Meisters wrote:
>Subject: Microsoft Basic
>
>"... I found that I had a copy of Microsoft Basic Version 2.00 . I just
>"tried to run it (I used to be able to run it on system 6.0.3 , I am now on
>"a newer machine running system 7.0.1) and it crashed my system and sent my
>"machine into a loop of crash restart and then crash again ... Now I would
>"like to get this program running again , so I was wondering ... is there
>"any chance that I might be able to get an update through Microsoft..."
>
>Sorry, can't help you on Microsoft BASIC, but have you checked out Chipmunk
>BASIC?
> [Archived as /info-mac/dev/chipmunk-basic-328.hqx; 254K]
William & Tristan, there's a really useful reference, Internet
Freeware-Shareware Programming Languages for the Macintosh, IFSPLM 7.0, by
Antreas Hatzipolakis. You'll find it on sumex in dev/info.
Antreas obviously intends to keep it up to date; and as well he's spiked it
with the most delicious quotes. Everyone from Epimenides to Wilde
(everyone except for C.P. Cavafy, whom I'm sure he'll catch up with
And Tristan, I'd second the recommendation for Chipmunk, stay away from old
unsupported things like MS Basic, they'll bring you grief.
If you want to spend a little more, there's always the wonderful Future
Basic from Zedcor, which is such a neat thing that even the real
programmers round here might condescend to use it...when noone's looking
--Bill Stanford
[email protected]
"Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs..."
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:16:26 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Open Transport help????
I wasn't paying enough attention to the threads talking about the problems
connecting Open Transport to some networks, didn't think I'd have to worry
about it. Just got a brand spanking new 7500 in the department, yeehaa!,
and now I'm trying to get it to see the network, no yeeha
.The network on the campus here is running ethernet phase 1 and that isn't
an option I can find on the new Mac. On the other machine I was using, I'd
have to select from the network control panel and choose the ethernet 1 driver
which I had installed in the extension folder.
I've tinkered a bit with possiblities that made sense, but no solution yet. Do
I have to custom remove all the networking software on the 7500 and reinstall
it using system 7.5.1?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
E-mail to [email protected] is prefered, I haven't had much time to read
info-mac lately.
Many thanks
rolf
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:18:22 -0500
From: [email protected] (John D. Tiftickjian)
Subject: Password when I boot my Mac
>I need a freeware program that ask me a password when I boot my Mac. Thank
>you very much for your help.
I use PowerLock. I think it will do what you need, and it has lots of
additional features beyond just giving you password protection. You can
find it on info-mac at:
info-mac/gui/power-lock-35.hqx
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:11:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Eric Sager
Subject: PB520 Battery/Charging Problem
Hello all,
I've a PB520 with a bum battery connection. Specifically, the machine does
not usually (if ever) recognize when it has been plugged in; that is to
say, when it gets low on power and plugged in for a recharge, the machine
does not recognize it is now able to feed off of the electricity issuing
>From the wall. The only way to fix this is to actually remove the battery
>From the machine, connect the PB to the plug, put the battery back in, and
turn it on. Obviously, this is slightly annoying. Is this a common malady
and what would be a good solution? I assume that there is some sort of
internal wiring/connectivity problem....but any thoughts on the matter
would be most appreciated.
_____ E R I C __ A L L E N __ S A G E R ________
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
University of Iowa
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 03:23:53 -0600
From: [email protected] (Richard Dunham)
Subject: Printer information request
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am experiencing a continuing problem with an Apple Color StyleWriter 2400
printer. It seems that these printers have a tendency to dump excessive
ink down into the black paper feed gears on the inside right, just below
the clear wiper blade. I have been told this is a problem with the
printer's "purge unit" and that high altitude is the cause. (I live at
8,700 ft in the San Juan mountains of Colorado) I have only used new
"Apple" cartridges and have never refilled any of them.
Apple Computer claims I am the only one who has ever reported this problem.
Do you have any experience with this problem or know anyone who has? I
would very much like to hear from anyone who can shed some light on my
dilemma.
Thank you very much for your time!
Sincerely,
Richard Dunham
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 23:44:58 -0500
From: "Rick Q. Chin"
Subject: problems with printing [A]
>Since a few months i'm using a powerbook 5300C. And in the office I print
>to a laserwriter 8, using printmonitor. When printing, my computer regularly
>freezes when the printjob is in the printmonitor.
You don't say whether you installed the 7.5.2 Printing Fix 1.1, which is
also included in LaserWriter 8.3.2. That might do it.
-Rick Q. Chin
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:12:35 -0500
From: eddie scheer
Subject: Question re Netscape and/or System Folder
Netscape often leaves files in my system folder. For instance,
MPEG files that were downloaded, etc. I have a Powerbook 540C running
System 7.5. Items in my System Folder are always locked, so to
get rid of these files, I have to reboot, rebuild the desktop,
put the files in the trash, and then boot up again (which also
re-rebuilds the desktop). Is there a way to:
1) Allow me to trash things in the System Folder without rebuilding.
or
2) Get Netscape to put files in another folder.
Thanx
Subject: Question re Netscape and/or System Folder
Netscape often leaves files in my system folder. For instance,
MPEG files that were downloaded, etc. I have a Powerbook 540C running
System 7.5. Items in my System Folder are always locked, so to
get rid of these files, I have to reboot, rebuild the desktop,
put the files in the trash, and then boot up again (which also
re-rebuilds the desktop). Is there a way to:
1) Allow me to trash things in the System Folder without rebuilding.
or
2) Get Netscape to put files in another folder.
Thanx Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Eval:23Apr95
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 09:06:55 EST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Radius Rocket & IIsi
Help!
I've come into possession of a Radius Rocket 33, when trying to run rocketware
with my IIsi, all I get is the startup splashscreen and the launch sound effect
and the IIsi locks up. I've removed all inits and control panels except the
radius ones and still the same result. I'm running system 7.1 for all macs as
the readme sez, Radius tech support is also stumped. Does anyone out there have
any ideas on how I can get this thing to run?
P.S. I can get Rocketshare to run, but the video is soooo slow as to be
marginally useful.
TIA
Frank Sweigart
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:45:12 +0000 (CET)
From: Palotas Peter
Subject: Resedit
Does anybody know a source of a complete RESedit manual on the Net or is
it aviable from bookstores ?
Thanks: Peter
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 09:19:23 -0400
From: C & E Behme
Subject: Sim-Bill file
HI there!
Yesterday, perusing the last few info-mac digests, I came across a
file that promised to have some fun-potential.
The title: Sim-Bill, a Presidential Simulation.
Expecting some tongue-in-cheek parody, I downloaded the file, over
4Megs.
While the read-me proclaims all the used sound-bites as authentic,
their juxtaposition and obvious (crude) editing creates a very
tasteless collage.
Alleged statements such as "I'm not a man, I'm a homosexual", or
"I have a brother who's a drug addict, I'm very proud of him"
are two parts I recall, before trashing the thing.
As a Canadian, I have no direct political stake in this matter. I
do, however, question the propriety of such a file appearing on
info-mac.It is neither software, nor game, neither computer
information, nor Mac related.
None of us want censorship, yet, such obvious cases of character
asassination are as tasteless as some of the sexual files found
elsewhere.
Hope you don't mind my comments.
Christina Behme
[Our policy is to archive everything we get (well...). "Non-mac" stuff is the
first to be deleted when the archive gets full, however. -Gordon]
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Date: 31 Jan 1996 22:08:06 GMT
From: [email protected] (Clive Bubley)
Subject: Solutions for dead video in Performa 475
Re: [email protected] (DOUG) >Solutions for dead video in Performa 475
Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:09:49 -0500
Date 31 Jan 1966
>From Clive Bubley, Cosmos, London
I had what I thought was a dead video section in my LC475 until I was advised
to check the internal battery. This 3.6V lithium battery powers the PRAM
which stores all the parameters of the Mac's operating system INCLUDING THE
VIDEO SECTION. If the battery dies, so does the information that tells the
Mac what to do with the video signal. Apparently, this is quite common with
475s! After replacing the battery, the 475 fired up just like new.
I strongly recommend that you check the battery before spending a large chunk
of money!
Clive
[email protected]
via BulkRate 2.1.3
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 15:31:35 +0000
From: Paul Sheldon
Subject: TristeQTMovie.sit.hqx and DrummerZ bossa nova
Before my jam onto baseline of Jobim, I syncrhonized a bossa nova
rhythm from Stephane Jose's DrummerZ. He gave me permission to
distribute my publications with whatever of his percussions they might
use. These are great rhythms to include with your baseline and jam
with.
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 15:31:42 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: unstuffing a single item
I remember a post about how the only way you can extract a single item from a
sit archive? Well, it is very easy. You can use Stuffit Lite like another
user said, or you can use Greg's Browser. If you couple this with the
stuffit engine, you can navagate through an archive just as if you were using
the finder! Just double click on the file you want to download. Browser
also allows you to stuff any file you want just using the stuff menu,
although this requires you click a "register later" button if you don't have
a registered sutffit product, but for the occasional stuff, it is OK.
[email protected]
-> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Eval:23Apr95
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 12:39:42 EST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Update: Global village disconnects
Moving to the 14.4 line has eliminated the disconnect problem completely.
Many thanks for the diagnosis/idea.
Harry Star
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:38:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Harris
Subject: upgrading the CPUs in a Performa 640 CD
Hi all,
I've got a couple of questions about upgrading the CPUs in my Performa 640
CD (currently a Motorola 680LC40 33/66 and an Intel 486DX2-66).
1.) Can I replace the Intel 486DX2-66 with an AMD (or other clone)
486DX4-100? I had understood that they were pin compatible, and the logic
board should not be able to tell the difference.
2.) Can I replace the Motorola 680LC40 with a real 68040? Based on the
white papers stored on http://www.motorola.com the chips would seem to be
identical, except for the missing FPU support (I do not know if they
operate at compatible clock speeds).
3.) Can I replace the Motorola 680LC40 with a Motorola 680LC60 or 68060?
The white papers on the 060's strongly suggested that these chips were
designed to be 100% backwards compatible with the 040's, but I've heard
otherwise from various sources (like, it was missing some common CISC
instructions - the white papers didn't mention this, though they did say
that a few of the FPU instructions had been implemented in microcode).
They are "bus compatible", and can be slowed to a 33/66 speed - there was,
unfortuneately, nothing to suggest that they were pin compatible.
I did ask 1-800-SOS-APPL these questions, but the tech I spoke with had
ominous misgivings about working "under the hood". He said, basically,
if I wanted a faster box I should have gotten a PPC :^(
-Steve Harris: Burnt out UNIX & VMS hack
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:56:33 -0600
From: [email protected] (Tom Vilberg)
Subject: Wayne's World Sounds
I am trying to locate the file of about 4 sounds from Waynes World. One of
them, "Denied!", was "Excellent" to play with the delete key. The sounds
used to be at Info-Mac but are no longer. Any help would be appreciated.
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:36:29 +0000
From: [email protected] (Minus van Baalen)
Subject: WordFinder and MS Word 5
Dear All
Though MS Word 5.1 comes with its own thesaurus, I would prefer to stick to
WordFinder that came with Word 4. I tried to install the WordFinder DA in
Word 5.1 the same way I installed it in Word 4. This didn't work.
Apparently Word 4 is designed to interact with the DA, and Word 5.1 isn't.
Has anyone found a way to use WordFinder independently?
Thanks
Minus van Baalen
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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