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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 25 Mar 96 Volume 14 : Issue 72
Today's Topics:
[*] 8 Ball v1.3
[*] Asset basset 1.0
[*] BirthdayChecker 2.0
[*] CleanResource2.0; a file utility for developer.
[*] Compact List 1.1
[*] csmp-digest-v3-140
[*] Disk Charmer 3.0.1; disk utility
[*] Eartraining 2.2.1
[*] Euphoria 1.5
[*] exile2-103-update.hqx info
[*] Giza 2.0.0 3D adventure
[*] IconSpeller 1.0
[*] MacCWEBx
[*] MIP Feb/March 1996 (USA)
[*] Munchkinstein Demo
[*] Mystic 8 Ball
[*] Netcom/TIA/PPP Installer 1.0
[*] netscape-baltic-cyrillic-12.hqx
[*] Netscape Alta-Vista Hack 1.0.1
[*] pppPrefFix 1.1.0
[*] Same Game tiles
[*] SynchWWW 1.1.1 - Smart upload from Mac to FTP
[*] Tragliatella TrueType
[*] video-toolbox-96-03-18-c.sit
[*] WebStationery Vol.II
(Q) Claris Draw not printing picture elements
7.5.3 and HP driver on a P6115 (C)
[Q] RAM Doubler and DOS Compatibility Card
Deleting files by single keypress
Don't force quit Netscape 2.0.1
Easy View Doesn't Work
extension conflicts
Give me some reasons _not_ to upgrade from 7.1.1 to 7.5.3
How do I know if I need Open Transport?
Info-Mac Digest V14 #68
Installing Office 4.2.1 & 7.5.3
Key combo to delete files
Language selection in MS Excel
Native software sniffer
need PinnacleMirco's optical formatter (Help)
OT 1.1
Phantom file
Power Computing
StuffIt Browser (Part II)
System 7.5.3 (a.k.a. System Update 2.0) (C)
System 7.5.3 repost for anyone who needs to get it
Thanks for Responding
Why is BinHex used so much?
Will NetPresenz 4.0.1 run on PowerBook 540 w/PPP?
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:12 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] 8 Ball v1.3
Based on the infamous Magic 8 Ball that reveals your future. Freeware.
Requires HyperCard. This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0
Chad Kluck
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/8-ball-hc.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:00 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Asset basset 1.0
Requirements: any Mac; Hypercard 2.1 or better
Asset Basset tracks your assets (a basset is a tracking dog...). It will
keep track of a wide range of different information about your investment
world. For each investment, you can see the tax-basis in your investment
using either the average-cost or first-in-first-out method, the capital
gains you've taken, the potential capital gain left in the investment, the
distributions, out-of-pocket investment, and, of course, the total profit
to date. You can generate annualized reports very close to those required
by the IRS for capital gains and distributions reporting. Asset Basset
also allows you to define portfolios composed of your investments, and to
track portfolio performance. The portfolios may be defined by any
combination of the following investment criteria: location (foreign or
domestic), style (value or growth), size (large-cap, mid-cap, etc.), type
(stock, bond, cash), and risk-level, as well as by your own keywords and
by name. Furthermore, you can allocate percentage amounts of a category
within an investment. For example, if you own a balanced fund that invests
40% in bonds and 60% in equity, you can indicate that allocation in the
account record. If you then choose to track the performance of your bond
investments, Asset Basset will know to attribute only 40% of the value of
the balanced fund to your bond "portfolio." By enabling percentage
allocations within an investment, Asset Basset lets you monitor the
allocation and performance of your investments with a precision limited
only by your knowledge of your own investments.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/asset-basset-10-hc.hqx; 82K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:02 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] BirthdayChecker 2.0
BirthdayChecker is a small and ultra fast program which scans a
TEXT-file and searches for birthdays which will be interesting in the
next few days. If you put an alias in the startup-folder, your mac will
check the birthdays every day for you!
The number of days to warn before is adjustable. In the same way you can
choose, if you want to use the German-date-format
(DD.MM) or the American-format (MM.DD). The header displayed in the
birthday window and the width of the window is adjustable,too.
Also the maximum number of starts per day.
It's a FAT version so it runs fast in both Mac worlds (680x0 and
PowerPC).
[Archived as /info-mac/data/birthday-checker-20.hqx; 160K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:50 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] CleanResource2.0; a file utility for developer.
A brief overview of CleanResource:
This program removes all names of resource. To use it, just drag and drop
files onto the application icon. CleanResource can be run on any Macintosh
computer. You need system 7 or later.
Why this program?
Generally when we are developing a software, we give a name for each
resource for identification. But at the moment of distribution,
this name is usually unnecessary (except that you have called the function
GetNamedResource or the similar).
Guoniu Han
http://130.79.4.26/~guoniu/mac/
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/clean-resource-20.hqx; 23K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:52 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Compact List 1.1
Compact List 1.1 is a HyperCard 2.1 or higher stack, written by Francis Van
Roie. Compact List can currently list 5 types of archives in the same stack,
namely: * Compact Pro Archives
* Compact Pro and Compact List Reports
* Auto-Extractor and Smaller Installer applications
* MCB.CAT Update files (MacClub Benelux)
* Disks and folders
Compact List extracts the database and file information from these archives.
With this information Compact List displays the files and folders hierarchi-
cally on an archive card. You can simply browse the folders and look up the
file information by clicking the mouse. You can also search all imported
archives for a specific file or folder, using numerous options.
The stack should run on any system running HyperCard 2.1 or higher. Though a
few of its features are disabled when running under system 6. Compact List
can take advantage of a color monitor to display icons, but it is not
required.
Compact List 1.1 US is the second release and adds, amongst others, the
following features: 2 new import filters, an archives menu, fully
hyperlinked help, balloonhelp in all its stacks, report files, bug fixes...
Compact List is available in English, Dutch and French. Contact the authors
if you are interested in a Dutch or a French version.
The author,
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/compact-list-11-hc.hqx; 183K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:02 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-140
C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 11 Mar 96 Volume 3 : Issue 140
Today's Topics:
"Apple's 3-D interface guidelines" ??
'sysz' resources
(Q) How to find local hard disk volumes only
AppleEvents to-from an extension?
Control panel code?
DDP Listener Broadcast Problem
Is C++ OK? Make yourself heard!
Removing a Gestalt entry - possible?
The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([email protected]).
[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-digest-v3-140.hqx; 47K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:48 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Disk Charmer 3.0.1; disk utility
You don't have to wait for Copland to initialize disks in
background...
Disk Charmer is a neat utility that lets you conveniently erase
disks, and handle disk images in DiskCopy and DiskDup+ format.
Disk Charmer lets you create larger disks: you gain 9K on 800K disks,
19K on HD disks, 1.5Mb on a Zip disk.
At least System 7 is required.
Help Balloons are everywhere.
Disk Charmer has a nice, modeless interface.
It fully supports drag&drop.
It supports the handy "Undo" feature we all know and love.
New since version 3.0:
Fixed dragging on a text window (would write a disk image).
Other tweaks.
New since version 2.4.5:
Major new features (for the complete list, see the readme doc):
- Erases any disk (not just floppies).
- Support for DiskDup+ and DiskCopy disk images.
- Checks for low-level errors during read/write, and warns the user
appropriately.
Major bugs fixed (for the complete list, see the readme doc):
- Fixed the crash that used to occur on some PowerMacs (and maybe other
Macs, too) when the Can switch among applications=8A setting was
active.
- The Low Density popup menu didn't drop down if you clicked on its
rightmost part, in spite of the fact that it had a drop-down symbol.
- Fixed the disk renaming bug.
Don't forget to check out my Web pages!
=46abrizio Oddone
http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/www_stud ... zioOddone/
http://www.kagi.com/authors/fab/
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-charmer-301.hqx; 142K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:42 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Eartraining 2.2.1
*** No changes compared to version 2.2, but an additional remark about using
MIDI (at the end of this text) ***
This program is an eartraining program for the Apple Macintosh.
It helps you to practice intervals, chords, scales and perfect pitch.
You can use either the Mac itself or MIDI* for sound output.
A statistics shows you which answers were right and which weren't.
For more information please read "About Eartraining" and just check out the
program yourself. I hope you'll enjoy it!
*You need OMS 2.0 or higher (from Opcode, e.g. at http://www.opcode.com) to
use MIDI.
*** Use of MIDI is limited if you don't register! You're gonna be able to
check it out, but it won't run infinitely. If you're not planning to
register, you might not want to download OMS since it's really big! ***
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/ear-training-221.hqx; 339K]
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/ear-training-221-de.hqx; 340K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:15 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Euphoria 1.5
Euphoria! is designed to help out anybody who has to administer a
network and is using Eudora as their Internet e-mail solution.
Euphoria! allows a user to set their real name, and their userID, and
it will make up a new Eudora Folder using these settings that the user
can use to check their mail.
Euphoria! works better than just a simple script in that it can be
used in conjunction with At Ease, and works with or without
AppleScript for users with memory restraints.
It is scriptable and is also set up for naive users in that it has
AppleGuide.
Version 1.5 cleans up some bugs in 1.0 and makes it even easier for
users to set up email accounts.
Cheers,
Dave MacLachlan
NightFall Software Inc.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/mail/euphoria-15.hqx; 135K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:31 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] exile2-103-update.hqx info
Enclosed is the "updater" for Exile II from AOL. It includes
all of the files you need to convert an earlier version of
Exile II to v 1.0.3. I am not the author, Jeff Vogel is. I
am merely uploading this at the request of a few folks.
Darin Takemoto
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/exile2-103-updt.hqx; 1162K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:33 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Giza 2.0.0 3D adventure
Now the shareware fee is only $15. This is the version everyone has been
waiting for. It includes lots of new features users requested. See below
for some of the changes.
Giza is a 3D, first person perspective, fully texture mapped adventure game
for the Mac.
You are a scientist who has discovered that the great pyramids of Egypt
will soon be destroyed. The secrets that can save them lie within the
pyramids themselves. You must try to collect all the information you need
without getting yourself killed.
Giza is full of secrets, gold and dangers. There are tricks, traps and evil
inhabitants in the pyramid that will try to stop you. There is also a
special ring, transporters, secret passageways and magic potions that can
help you. 25 levels of mystery and adventure.
Giza also comes with an editor that lets you create your own pyramid
levels! Challenge your friends with levels you created or upload them for
others to try. The editor is so easy to use that anyone can create great
levels in minutes.
Version 2.0.0 changes.
1) Added ability to shoot bad guys!
2) Added ability to save ANYWHERE in game!
3) New lower price! $15!
4) Documentation completely rewritten and clarified.
5) All levels redesigned.
6) More bad guys per level.
7) Enhanced mapping mode.
8) New laser graphics.
9) Fixed 24-bit memory mode problems.
10) Fixed crashing on PCI Macs.
11) Fixed crashing in System 7.5.2.
12) Fixed last ethereal crashing bug.
13) Level 4 Newton text fixed.
Accelerated for PowerMac.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/giza-20.hqx; 2098K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:45 -0800
From: [email protected],
chuck_smyrniotis*@quickmail.apple.com
Subject: [*] IconSpeller 1.0
It is with great pleasure that I am submitting my IconSpeller shareware
for possible inclusion in the various macintosh archives.
IconSpeller is an educational program, it is simple and fun to use. The
program displays icons in random order and the user has to unscramble the
icon's label by pick-and-click or by typing. It is targeted for kids 6
years of age and older.
IconSpeller was created by Chuck Smyrniotis at Rapid Prototyping
Technology. Special thanks go to his ten year old son, Christopher, for
creating a number of icons and for testing it. IconSpeller requires a
Macintosh computer with a color monitor; preferably MacOS 7.0 or higher. It
requires 384 KB of RAM and 176 KB of disk space. It is distributed as
shareware with a 10 dollar registration fee.
Thank you!
Chuck Smyrniotis
Chuck_Smyrniotis*@quickmail.apple.com (Chuck Smyrniotis)
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/yng/icon-speller-10.hqx; 51K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:55 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] MacCWEBx
Enclosed is a Mac port of Marc A.A. van Leeuwen's CWEBx3.0 I
finished yesterday. CWEBx is an implementation of Levy/Knuth
CWEB Literate Programming system and supports both C and C++.
The MacCWEBx contains the original distribution of the CWEBx3.0
including documents and 68k native applications MacTanglex
and MacWeavex. The applications support simple AppleEvents
to set the commandline options and to process cweb files and
it's all features are scriptable. A short note about the mac
implementation is enclosed in the archive.
The program is freeware and no warranties of any kind of it's
bugfreeness or applicability is given nor any liability for
it's use and possible problems caused by it assumed.
-- Lauri
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/mac-cwebx.hqx; 489K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:51:55 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] MIP Feb/March 1996 (USA)
MacInPlay is a free e-zine in Italian and in English about Macintosh
video games. This e-zine is directed by Roberto Cattaneo with the help
of Marco Silvestri, Attilio Tarabusi, Carlo Volpi, Alberto Porcu and
Augusto Pirovano. MIP is out every month and it's on Info-Mac mirrors.
The English version will be out one week after the Italian version.
In February/March issue we talk about:
- Interview: Bill Dugan, MacPlay - System Update 2.0 - Havoc -
International Tennis Open - Comanche Mac - Tips&Tricks
If you want to send comments and letters, please use
[email protected]
The translation to English was made by Fabrizio Re Garbagnati and
Roberto Cattaneo.
Game Over!
[Archived as /info-mac/per/mip/mac-in-play-96-03.hqx; 939K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:27 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Munchkinstein Demo
Munchkinstein Demo is a scenario for Wolfenstein 3D, and is compatible with
both 2nd and 3rd Encounters. This version replaces the original demo,
which had a bug that caused it to crash on some Macs.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/wolf/munchkinstein-demo.hqx; 465K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:16 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Mystic 8 Ball
Mystic 8-Ball is a fortune telling program similar to the old magic eight
ball. Just concentrate on a question and click on magic eight ball for the
answer.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/mystic-8-ball.hqx; 209K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:18 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Netcom/TIA/PPP Installer 1.0
This installer installs TIA, PPP, and the PPP and MacTCP settings you need
to turn your Netcom shell account into a pseudo-PPP account.
The Netcom/SLiRP/PPP and Netcom/TIA/PPP installers turn a Netcom shell
account into a pseudo-PPP account, so that you can use TCP/IP programs such
as Anarchie, Eudora, Fetch, MacMUSH, Netscape, NCSA Telnet, and Newswatcher
(or YA-Newswatcher). This doesn't increase the fees that you pay to Netcom.
The installers install PPP, and the PPP and MacTCP settings you will need
to set up Netcom and PPP. The installers also automatically install either
SLiRP or TIA into your regular personal dial-up account on Netcom, and PPP
on your Macintosh. No Unix commands need be entered by you nor do you have
you access your shell account at all, all the work is done by the
installers. Installation in your user directory takes less than 100 bytes.
The installers also detail the specific step-by-step instructions for
configuring PPP and TCP/IP programs for your user id and modem. Netcom does
not support SLiRP or TIA and will not answer any questions about it, but
allows its use.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/conn/netcom-tia-ppp-installer-10.hqx; 200K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:09 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] netscape-baltic-cyrillic-12.hqx
This patch is intended for use with Netscape Navigator 2.0. It is freeware.
It adds Baltic and Cyrillic capabilities to Netscape Navigator 2.0.
You will be able to read web pages and to send e-mail in Latvian,
Lithuanian, Russian, and Ukrainian - using only native Macintosh fonts
*without* installing non-Macintosh ("KOI8") fonts.
ResEdit is no longer required (as opposed to previous versions).
Version 1.2.1 fixes a tiny bug.
Arnis Gross
Andreas Prilop
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/web/netscape-baltic-cyrillic-12.hqx; 127K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:07 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Netscape Alta-Vista Hack 1.0.1
all that it does is hack the Net Search button in netscape to go to the
alta vista search engine instead of netscapes engine.
this is the second version because i made the hack and 12 hours the new
version came out. how do you like that?
das
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/web/netscape-altavista-hack-101.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:20 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] pppPrefFix 1.1.0
Many times when using MacPPP the error message:
The control panel "Config PPP" cannot
be used now because not enough memory
is available.
is encountered when our Web Browser launches a third or fourth helper
program. "Config PPP" is forced closed at this time by the Finder and when
we attempt to open it afterwards we are greeted by the error message:
Config PPP Error!
Opening Preferences
This program, "pppPrefFix", is an AppleScriptR application which was
inspired by a work around to this problem of Lofty Becker's. He found that
he could solve the problem of opening "Config PPP" being unable to open by
duplicating the PPP preference file, moving the old file out of the
preference folder, renaming the copy to the original's name, and then
opening "Config PPP".
By double clicking "pppPrefFix" you launch an AppleScriptR application
which automatically performs the above outline steps. You only need to make
sure that you have at least 200 kbytes of free RAM before double clicking.
This program requires system 7 or greater, the "AppleScriptTM" extension
installed and the extension "Finder Scripting Extension" installed or that
you have the runtime library "FinderLib" somewhere locatable with the
finder. You also should have ran "Config PPP" at least once before
attempting to use this program.
This version corrects the problem encountered with system 7.5.2.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/conn/ppp-pref-fix-110.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:18 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Same Game tiles
Here is a small collection of tiles I made for Same Game.
Let me know what you think. =)
[Archived as /info-mac/game/same-game-erics-tiles.hqx; 75K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:11 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] SynchWWW 1.1.1 - Smart upload from Mac to FTP
SynchWWW 1.1.1
by Aaron Freimark ([email protected])
March 18, 1996 (this is the first public release).
Here's an AppleScript I wrote which allows you to keep a local copy of your
html directory. Why? so you can edit the pages & gifs & whatever on your
Mac, and automatically suck up the new/changed items to your server. It
remembers the last time you ran the script, and only sucks up those items
which have changed since then. It works with multiple sub-directories and
will even create server-side directories as needed.
IMPORTANT THINGS:
* You need Anarchie version 1.6 or above.
* The first time you run it, it will suck up everything. So you should
first make sure your Mac has the most current versions of everything, if
you don't want to clobber your server-side pages.
* You need to edit the script with "Script Editor" for it to work for you.
Details are in the README file.
-- Aaron Freimark
[email protected]
http://www.inch.com/~aaron/
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/web/synch-www-111-as.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:37 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Tragliatella TrueType
*Tragliatella.suit*, a Macintosh truetype decorative font. It includes 21
characters.
Nios Goulandris
([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/tragliatella-tt.hqx; 117K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:52:57 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] video-toolbox-96-03-18-c.sit
The VideoToolbox is a collection of two hundred C subroutines and several
demo and utility programs that I and others have written to do visual
psychophysics with Macintosh computers. It is fully compatible with 680x0
and PowerPC Macs and with Metrowerks CodeWarrior 8 and Symantec C
compilers. It's free and may not be sold without permission. It should be
useful to anyone who wants to present accurately specified visual stimuli
or use the Mac for psychometric experiments.
WHAT'S NEW:
*Compatible with Metrowerks CW8 and Symatec C 8--see Changes.
*Surprising timing results for PCI Macs--see Video synch.
*Update on our request to Apple for support of high frame rates--see
Video synch.
*I recommend the PowerMac 7500 (best specs) or 7200 (best buy) over other
models to anyone that wants to buy a mac to show movies (i.e. copy images
to the screen in real time)--see Video synch.
*Raster graphics bibliography.doc, written by David Brainard, in Notes
folder.
Denis Pelli
Department of Psychology
New York University
6 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/video-toolbox-93-03-18-c.hqx; 2785K]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:53:13 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] WebStationery Vol.II
WebStationery is just that - gifs to use as cool backgrounds for your
browser (if that option is available on your particular browser) and/or as
background images on your own web pages.
Browser-readable (HTML) files are included to facilitate convenient
previewing of the backgrounds.
Christopher Hunt.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/web/web-stationary-v2.hqx; 64K]
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:19:32 +0000
From: [email protected] (Jens Eickhoff)
Subject: (Q) Claris Draw not printing picture elements
Hello Netters,
I am currently preparing a rather large Claris-Draw drawing, an information
flow chart with lots of lines and text elements. Elements belonging to a
common group are identified by lying a coloured box below them, so that
everything "within" this box in the huge chart can easily be identified as
belonging to one information group.
Now I have the problem that the drawing is a multi page document and on
some of the pages, the coloured boxes below my text do not print whereas on
other pages the same box - streching over several pages - prints. I tried
various printers and drivers. It doesn't affect the output. On screen the
image appears correctly.
I also already tried to assign more memory to Claris Draw, suspecting
memory problems while preparing the print postscript information. This
didn't fix the problem either.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for help
J. Eickhoff
([email protected])
Jens Eickhoff
Dept. RST 46 email: [email protected]
Dornier Satellitensysteme GmbH phone: (+49)(0) 7545 / 8-4178
D-88039 Friedrichshafen fax: (+49)(0) 7545 / 8-3210
Germany
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 12:25:33 -0500
From: [email protected] (Mark J. Gandler)
Subject: 7.5.3 and HP driver on a P6115 (C)
Friends:
After much fiddling, I finally got 7.5.3 up and running with a DW 560 C
printer. It seems fine now, although it took many hours and a few
reinstallations.
I initially had a Performa 6115 (40MB) configured to drive a HP DeskWriter
560C using System 7.5.1 and QuickDraw GX. The upgrade to 7.5.3 did not go
smoothly, and I suspect that this platform/printer combination is so common
that other people might be interested in getting it to work. I'll cut to
the chase. After a few false starts, this worked:
First, I got a disk image of the Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter 6.0.3 driver
installer, the one originally meant to fix serial problems on 9500s (it is
available, compressed, as "dw110en" at
[http://www.hp.com:80/cposupport/indexes ... l#software]). I also
got the 14 "Update" disk images from apple's ftp site. Then I started in
earnest. I built the "System 7.5 Update Net Install" folder and put it on
the hard drive as instructed by the ReadMe. I also set aside a few
hard-to-replace extensions and control panels in another folder on the
desktop, along with the entire preferences file and my Eudora folder, just
in case I needed them later. Then I rebooted from the Performa CD and ran
the "disk first aid" (no problems). I threw out the whole system folder
and emptied the trash while working from the System on the CD. Next, I let
the CD's System installer put a totally fresh copy of System 7.5 onto the
hard drive. It made me restart, so I found myself using new, clean System
software from the HD. Onto that clean System, I inflicted the "System 7.5
Update Net Install" that I had created earlier. Next, I let M$ Office
4.2.1 restore itself by using the Office CD and the file it had parked on
my HD when it was installed long ago. These two CDs thus restored almost
all of my extensions, control panels, and preferences. I dragged the few
extensions and control panels which I had set aside (such as FreePPP) back
onto the system folder icon, and the computer dropped them into the
appropiate folders. I put my Eudora folder back into the System folder in
same manner.
Next, I did the HP 6.0.3 printer driver installation, which was painless.
I didn't install QuickDraw GX at all, because I have a gut feeling that it
caused some of my (infuriating) printing problems when I attempted this
whole upgrade the first time.
More importantly, however, I think that the key to avoiding another day of
hair-pulling is to use the Extension Manager religiously. I never liked
the darned thing, since I generally prefer to see icons before I throw them
into any "disabled" folders. Unfortunately, my aversion to the Extension
Manager did not make System 7.5.3 very happy. I needed to get used to
using the Extensions Manager, particularly in order to throw away the
default StyleWriter II desktop printer.
I still don't have a desktop printer, beacuse the HP 560C icon doesn't seem
to show up on the desktop (although it does get "chosen"). At this point,
however, I can wait until the next-generation driver comes out. This one
seems to work fine in the background, and that's good enough for now.
I hope this helps somebody.
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:43:06 +0100
From: Paolo Galante
Subject: [Q] RAM Doubler and DOS Compatibility Card
I own a PowerMacintosh 6100/60 16/500/CD with a DOS Compatibility Card
and System 7.5.1, and I cannot work with the DCC without problems due to
RAM Doubler and Speed Doubler. After re-installing the Connectix
products the system seems to work but only for a while. The only
solution for now is to disable RAM & Speed Doubler. Is there any trick
for avoiding disabling these extensions, i.e. deleting some preferences,
or something else?
Thanks.
-- Paolo Galante
-- Architect
-- San Vito al Tagliamento, PN, Italy
-- E-mail: [email protected]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:41:55 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Deleting files by single keypress
Adriano Santoni wrote:
>1) Wouldn't it be much easier to be able to DELETE any file by simply pressing
> a key? (eg ). Does anybody know of an extension, init, patch, add-on,
I use Now Utilities' Now Menus to easily add command-equivalents to the
menu choices; you could also use ResEdit or almost any macro utility.
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:42:05 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Don't force quit Netscape 2.0.1
"Don't Panci!" wrote:
>It appears Netscape 2.0.1 has a feature that is probably unwanted. If you
>force quit (command-option-escape simultaneously) it due to impatience, the
>next time it is reloaded, the preferences file gets corrupted. As a result,
>you won't be able to use that installation of Netscape 2.0.1 anymore.
You can probably just delete the Preferences file: nearly all apps will
recreate the Prefs file if they find it's missing.
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Date: 24 Mar 96 16:24:04 EST
From: Robert Warner
Subject: Easy View Doesn't Work
I've been using EASY VIEW to read Info-Mac. Works fine when I d/l
Info-Mac directly from AOL or CIS or the Internet.
Doesn't work when I receive it directly (subscription) via Claris
Emailer 1.0v3.
Any ideas?
Many thanks!
Bob Warner
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:38:23 +0000
From: Peter Peldan
Subject: extension conflicts
I have found two serious extension conflicts on my Mac Performa
5200, 16Mb RAM
1. Gatekeeper 1.3 and Connectix RAMDoubler 1.6.1 do not function
togethet although they work perfectly alright alone. If both
extensions are loaded at startup, I get a systemerror alert
already when the extensions and INIT's are being loaded. The
systemerror alert explicitely mention GateKeeper as the cause/victim.
2. MacsBug 6.5.2 and PowerMacDebugServices 2.0.b14. Both works
fine separately but not at all together.
Any known cures?
Peter Peldan
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:42:09 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Give me some reasons _not_ to upgrade from 7.1.1 to 7.5.3
I have a PB 540, 12/340/RAM Doubler, running the 7.1.1 that came with it. I
keep hearing that 7.5.3 is the greatest thing since sliced bread and am
tempted to make the upgrade. However, some of my favorite utilities may not
be compatible with 7.5.3, and most of the features of 7.5.x are duplicated
by many of those afore-mentioned utilities anyway.
Still, I hear good things about it, and as a consultant, I took it upon
myself to get a copy whether I used it or not, just in case I ever needed
to install it on a client's Mac. Now I just need to decide if I should use
it myself, or whether it would be worth the effort. I'm leaning towards
going for it, and am now looking for people to give me _rational_ reasons
not to, so I don't enter into it uninformed.
Is there an official list/web page/FAQ of what is and is not compatible
with 7.5.3, and/or the disadvantages (if any) of that particular upgrade?
TIA!
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:42:22 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: How do I know if I need Open Transport?
Simple question, horribly complex answer, I suppose.
I have a PB 540, 12/340/7.1.1, with a PPP connection to the 'net. I'm
currently using FreePPP 1.0.5, MacTCP 2.0.4 (the current version is 2.0.5,
but I can't upgrade the copy in use: I have to upgrade the original), and
PPPfloater 1.2, along with enough startup things to choke Jabba the Hut (65
startup icons, count 'em).
I hear horrid things about OT 1.0.x, and then 1.1 comes out and the press
turns from "boo" to "whew!" What's the scoop, and should I bother?
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:13:01 -0500
From: [email protected] (Lee Larson)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #68
[email protected] (Fabiano Petrone) asks
>1. when I launch mathematica double-clicking on the front-end, this
>operation launch also MacPPP: so if the modem is off, MATHEMATICA can't be
>opened.
This happens because Mma has a network copy protection scheme which causes
it to look out at the network for other copies with the same serial number.
There are two ways of curing this: (1) upgrade your Mma to a newer version
such as 2.2.2, which is smarter about such things; or, (2) switch to
FreePPP and disable the auto connection feature by clicking the check box
on the main ConfigPPP screen.
Lee Larson (502)852-6829
Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:32:07 -0600
From: [email protected] (Bruce A. Bromberek)
Subject: Installing Office 4.2.1 & 7.5.3
I've had problems installing office 4.2.1b from CD onto my 7100/66 ever
since I upgraded to 7.5.3. It had been awhile and I was having problems
so I razed my harddrive before doing anything. Booted from CD and installed
7.5, then updater 1.0 then updater 2.0. Now I go to installed new clean
version of my favorite software.
The office installer just kept dying about three quarters of the way
through - claiming a IO disk error occured. Excuse me, IO disk error from
a CD that worked fine a few weeks ago? So I try it again - same error. I
delete everything installed by Office and try again installing 1 office app
at a time. No crash but when I ran the applications - type 11 error.
So now I'm mad. Something has to be conflicting with the installer right.
So I go into the System folder and move out everything that I don't need
for the CD and anything that wasn't present back at 7.5.1 - finder update,
OT , MacSLIP, all out.
Office installed, no problem. Dumped everything back, office still works.
My questions: 1) What is conflicting with the office installer?
2) Has anyone else had this problem, or has everyone just done
updates on existing systems. (Which is what I did at work and
had no problems at all)
Bruce A. Bromberek - U of M - Dept. of Che & Mat Sci -
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:20:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul Koch
Subject: Key combo to delete files
I use CanIt, available in the info-mac archives. Works great, less
dragging. Contact [email protected] for info. Shareware $10.
Paul Koch
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:17:21 +0000
From: [email protected] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: Language selection in MS Excel
I own Microsoft Office (which includes Excel 5.0 and Word 6.0.1), and it
seems that I cannot swith languages in Excel. I know how it works in Word
(and often switch there between the English and the German dictionaries),
but I cannot find a possibility to do the same in Excel. I have the manual
and looked through it, I looked into the online help of Excel, but I did
not find it.
Please email copies of your replies.
Thank you for all help.
[email protected] -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:41:17 -0600
From: [email protected] (Bill Cummins)
Subject: Native software sniffer
I've been blessed to recently receive an upgrade to a PowerMac at work
(Power120) from my Quadra800. Is there any easy way to find out if
software/extensions are Native?
I know that apps will read "if you don't turn on Virtual memory, you'll
have to buy more memory to use this expensive machine," but I don;t know
how to find out about _all_ the stuff I ported over. I thought I had read
about a utility, but I can't find one.
--
--
Bill Cummins, 3490 Planning, Policy Studies and Information Systems
Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-3490
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:47:21 +0300
From: [email protected] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: need PinnacleMirco's optical formatter (Help)
Hello,
I have a 600 MB optical disk that failed right after I upgraded to system
7.5.3 (not 7.5.3's fault-the software is great!). Anyway after exchanging
emails with the tech support people at Pinnacle-Micro I found out that
there is a newer version of the drive formatter software (current is
PMO3.0.9 and we have SCSIinit 1.8 and PMO2.0.1a).
So PinnacleMicro has no FTP site and are sending the software to me via
mail. I am more into instant gratification so I thought I would try this
list If someone could email me the latest version of the formatting
software (the only way you can get it is by parcel mail or downloading it
>From their BBS - 714 area code), I would be very greatful.
Thank you, David
Rehovot, Israel
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:42:58 -0600
From: [email protected] (Bruce A. Bromberek)
Subject: OT 1.1
I updated my office 7100/80 to 7.5.3 and since I have direct ethernet I
switched over to Open Transport (after installing it twice then reading the
Read me files). I've noticed a long delay when first doing something
requiring connections over the ethernet.
For example: I boot Telent, open a session, and there is a delay about
5sec. Then everythings fine and subsequent sessions connect almost
instantly. By comparison, the other Powermac's (still at 7.5.1 - I'm the
test rat) make their
first connection at the same speed as later ones about 1 sec.
Anyone else experience this or is it my imagination? BTW I did unlcick the
'load only when needed box' under options in the TCP/IP control panel.
Thanks in advance
Bruce A. Bromberek - U of M - Dept. of Che & Mat Sci -
[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:42:13 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Phantom file
Dennis Perzanowski wrote:
>I have a zero K file on my hard drive, created by (I really am not sure). It
>is called "Temp SD Copy File."
My guess is that it's for SpeedDoubler's SpeedCopy module.
>Can anyone give me any pointers on how to eliminate this pesky file
I'd leave it alone. After all, if it's only zero K, drive space is not a
concern.
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:42:16 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Power Computing
Greg wrote:
>Does anyone in this group have any experience with Power Computing products?
I use a Power 100 at work (16/1G/7.5.2). No complaints. I really don't even
think about it as a clone: it looks and feels just like a real Mac.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:45:19 +0100
From: [email protected] (H.U. Kohler-Kruner)
Subject: StuffIt Browser (Part II)
>All,
>
>I use Stuffit to archive all my software. I find it handy and I've neve had
>any problems with it. Now I am looking for aa utility or extension that
>will allow me to get into the archives quicker. I don't want to unstuff
>everything or open StuffIt every time I just want to have a quick peak.
>
>Now I've heard something about an INIT called StuffIt Browser, but hav
>ebeen unable to find it in the usual places. Can someone help, send it to
>me, or suggest an alternative ?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
Thx for your pointers at Greg's Browser. It does too much for me. I didn't
want to start another app, but rather want an INIT of Controlpanel (add
that to the 60-80 I tart on a regular day and I know I'm asking for
trouble, but that's what I've got CC3 for
) to do the work for me. I_know_ there is one called StuffIt Browser, I have found it referenced on
certain BBS. Can anyone help me obtain it or point me at a different
source.
Thanks
Hanns 'The Keeper' [email protected] [email protected]
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 00:15:09 +0000
From: [email protected] (Alun J. Carr)
Subject: System 7.5.3 (a.k.a. System Update 2.0) (C)
Just to let people know about some of the problems I've encountered with
System 7.5.3 (on a Centris 650 16/500):
SCSI drivers
============
_Please_ make sure that your SCSI disk drivers are SCSI manager 4.3
compatible. It turned out that one of mine on an external disk wasn't, and
it led to strange behaviour: copying a file from that disk to another
caused the Finder to crash or hang, but copies using DeskZap were fine.
AutoDoubler
===========
Looks like 7.5.3 isn't too compatible with AutoDoubler (part of DiskDoubler
Pro 1.1), especially if you have General Controls installed. I've had to
delete a load of files and uncompress everything on my hard disk, then
remove AutoDoubler, in order to get a stable system.
General Controls
================
Despite Apple rewriting it, it's still _evil_.
Note that I did a clean install of 7.5 prior to the update, which is what I
would recommend everyone to do.
Aside from the above problems, 7.5.3 seems _much_ faster on my old Centris
(feels like a 30--50% increase in clock-speed when working in the Finder),
and I'm convinced that Apple have done something to the disk cache other
than up the default size, as in: I think they've massively improved the
algorithm.
Hope this helps someone.
--
A. J. Carr, Mech. Engng Dept, University College Dublin, Ireland.
e-mail: [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 09:14:55 +0000
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: System 7.5.3 repost for anyone who needs to get it
To everyone who has been frustrated by Apple's busy signals at getting
System 7.5.3:
1-800-293-6617 extension 984 is Claris's U.S. department for getting
System 7.5.3. It is 15MB, and therefore a major hastle to download,
considering modem speeds are such that a downlaod of that magnitude
takes 5-10 hours. The problem is that the upgrade is so big. It is
better to wait for it to come snail, than have to fight for machine
space on the internet. It costs $15 USD. Perhaps someone should
repost this at the digest every new issue just to get the point across
that it is better to do snail when a download is that big. This until
everyone has System 7.5.3.
So before you worry yourself that Apple was ill prepared for the
upgrade, consider that very few people can yet afford T-1 lines which
are the only speeds decent enough for those size downloads.
Consider this part of the growing pains of the internet being so new,
and the decisions over standard protocols for high speeds still up in
the air.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:14:05 -0500
From: [email protected] (nils dahl)
Subject: Thanks for Responding
Friends,
Tom Gibson, Doug Steele, and Dale Talcott all sent me informative
reponses to my posting about the Startup Disk control panel. One learns.
Dale in particular explained the ritual of blessing and unblessing of
system folders. Thanks to everyone.
Nils Dahl, Hartford, Connecticut [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 22:25:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim J
Subject: Why is BinHex used so much?
Hello, Mac'ers!!!!
I've always wondered why BinHex is used so often in the internet. I
don't know who started it, but doesn't it seem odd, that the method that
we've been using for so long takes up the *most* disk space. It takes
anywhere from 45%-60% (*very* roughly, that is) more disk space than the
original file. I did a little testing on my machine here, and I found
that there are like 3 other methods (that I tested with) that include all
ASCII characters like BinHex does, but takes less room. I found the
"Binary To ASCII" and "ASCII to Binary" to be most effective. I want to
propose that we switch methods of encoding software for use on the
Internet. I would love to change it to this Binary To ASCII mode. I
don't know how many people will back me up, but I am guessing *HUGE*
amount of people will flame me, hate me (more, even), etc for this
proposal, but I don't see the use of more disk space to store files, when
we have another method that takes less space.
Is there anybody that will back me up? Or is everybody against that
idea? I am prepared to send a StuffIt translator for the Binary To ASCII
conversion (and vice versa) to Info-Mac, if this proposal actually does
work out.
I really would love this proposal to become part of the work. Thank you
all for reading this, and I hope I can count on your support.
If you would like to provide tons of information *only* to why we use
BinHex instead of Binary To ASCII method more would be *greatly*
appreciated, but please, *please*, no people who want to express the
little things that why they use BinHex instead of any other data transfer
conversion method. I will take them, but most likely not read the little
ones. I can not stress this enough, because I know there are a TON of
Macintosh users out there, and if I got an E-mail for every Mac user out
there, I would never hear the end of it, literally.
Thank you for reading this, and I hope I can initiate this change. Thanks.
--Tim Judd
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:42:25 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Will NetPresenz 4.0.1 run on PowerBook 540 w/PPP?
I'm using a PowerBook 540 (12/340/7.1.1), and would like to use NetPresenz,
which lets me designate my Mac as an ftp/www/gopher server while I'm
online. NP requires file sharing, however, and since the PB 500-series has
only one serial port, I don't think I can use File Sharing while I'm online
with my PPP account (or vice versa), even with the author-recommended
"Dummy ADEV" in my Extensions folder (which is where I presume it's
supposed to go). I don't believe Dummy ADEV came with any documentation of
its own, and it's only briefly mentioned in the NP documentation.
I've e-mailed the author , but I'm covering my
bases here as well. The documentation recommends upgrading to System 7.5.1,
but I doubt it would make much difference in my case: what I probably need
is another serial port. Do they make a serial port splitter for the PB
500-series? Can you suggest any other options? TIA!
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