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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 29 May 96 Volume 14 : Issue 125
Today's Topics:
[*] 3D Star Trek Icons
[*] MortalPongbat 1.4.1
[*] Plug Master 1.3.0
[*] Poly-Dol 1.09
[*] Poly-Kin 1.09
[*] Poly-Off
[*] Poly-Peg 1.09
[*] Poly-RC 1.09
[*] Poly-Tile 1.09
[*] PolyMine 1.09
[*] Polytris 1.09
[*] SoftwareFPU 3.04
[*] TidBITS#330/27-May-96
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[A] Clean Install of system 7.5 (from CD)
Apple Color One Scanner
CGI programs
Clean Install of system 7
FAX Software Opinions, Please
FreePPP & 8500 [A]
How to Delete Duplicate Data??
IBM vs the Mac for table-intensive DTP
Info-Mac Digest V14 #122
Maintaining a Mac Lab
Memory problem?
Microsoft Dialog Lies
Need Advice With Config PPP
Printing Problems (2 msgs)
Puzzle
Q: How to automatically reboot a machine when it crashes
sad mac 0000000F / 0000000C (2 msgs)
Subject: Mac X server?
System 7.5 Update 2.0 Problem
Virus warning for UK MacUser readers
Where to buy Powerbook 180c Hard Drives?
Word and QMS printer
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:21:47 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] 3D Star Trek Icons
Starships 1.1
This is a collection of icons representing starships from the Star Trek
universe. They were carefully hand-crafted in Adobe Photoshop in my precious
spare time. As a multimedia designer I noticed a lack of quality Star Trek
icons in cyberspace and followed the lead of a couple of my co-workers. We
have created several collections that I think you will be very impressed
with. Check out our web pages at http://members.aol.com/ccmarion,
http://members.aol.com/gedeonm, and http://members.aol.com/talosman.
I have recently added 5 icons to the collection and am currently working on
an update with many more starships. Bookmark my web page or check back here
occasionally.
Thank you for your interest and please e-mail me with any questions, comments
or suggestions.
You may include these on your CD-ROM.
Corey Marion
Digital Media Designer
networkMCI Digital Imaging
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/3d-star-trek-starship-icons.hqx; 59K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:10:25 -0700
From: (David C Hirschfield)[email protected]
Subject: [*] MortalPongbat 1.4.1
What is it?
Mortal Pongbat is Pong, taken to a whole new level of vicious,
friend-losing fun.
It runs in 256 colors (automatically changed for your convenience) on
any 68020 (or better) Mac running system 7.1 or later, with 1MB
(actually it only requires about 700k) of free RAM.
There should be two copies available on this archive, the 68k version
for 68000-based Macs and a PPC version for PowerPC Macs.
Why is it?
You might be wondering why anyone would come out with yet another
version of Pong?
Well, I'll answer that...
This one is really fun.
That's not me talking, that's the dozens of students at Carnegie Mellon
University who have played it, as well as many people I have given it
to, talking.
Take original, plain vanilla Pong, add the following features, shake
vigorously and you get Mortal Pongbat:
1. Really cool graphics and effects
2. Neato nifty sounds
3. A beam weapon to burn holes in the other guy's paddle
4. Autonomous Mines bouncing around the field endangering your very
existence as a player
5. Multiple brightly colored pucks
6. Pods that block and bounce the pucks, and contain prizes for you to get
7. Prizes (as mentioned above) like: Invincibility, More Pucks, Bigger
Beam, Fix Shield
8. Two person play, as well as person vs. computer play.
How much?
Mortal Pongbat is shareware.
This simply means that if you like it and play it with friends, family,
pets or household appliances, you should probably go to the trouble of
sending me a friendly letter and a check for $20, or anything you feel
like sending.
If you hate it, throw it away, wash your hands, and write me to tell me why.
David Hirschfield
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/mortal-pongbat-141.hqx; 679K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/mortal-pongbat-141-ppc.hqx; 683K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:32:31 -0700
From: (Mike C Tilstra)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Plug Master 1.3.0
Is your Netscape Plug-in folder starting to look like your Extensions
folder? Want some control over those Plugs? Well, this application works
like System7.5's extension Manager, but for Netscape or Explorer plug-ins.
What's New?
Sets are now fully functional!!
With that, major changes were made to the Preference file. You will
need to throw out the old one.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/ntscp/plug-master-13.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:29:32 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Poly-Dol 1.09
Poly-Dol is another board game with color pieces on hexagonal or
square grid. The object of the game is to match the pieces on the
board to the given shape. You can slide pieces on a line horizontally,
vertically or diagonally, or rotate pieces.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/poly-dol-109.hqx; 266K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:31:52 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Poly-Kin 1.09
Poly-Kin is yet another game with falling blocks. The objective is to
stay in the game by removing blocks, of course. Blocks with 1 to 4
squares drop from top and stop when they hit other blocks or bottom.
The squares can be removed if 4 or more of same color squares are
connected. They may not be in a line unlike Poly-RC or Polybrid. The
squares will not stick together and all the squares will fall to the
bottom. The game ends when the blocks are piled to the top.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/poly-kin-109.hqx; 300K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:29:56 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Poly-Off
Poly-Off is another solitare board game. The objective is to turn all
the pieces into grey. If you click on a piece, the color will be
changed, so are some of its neighbors. The changing neighbors will be
decided depending on the shape of the switch. This simple game is not
that easy as it looks. There are more than 1 million possible states
for the easiest board.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/poly-off-102.hqx; 211K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:30:30 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Poly-Peg 1.09
Poly-Peg is a classic board game on hexagonal or square grid. It is
easy to learn, but hard to master. The object of the game is to remove
all the pieces except one. Pieces can be removed by jumping one piece
over another piece and landing on a blank space.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/poly-peg-109.hqx; 240K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:32:05 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Poly-RC 1.09
Poly-RC is a game with falling rows and columns. The objective is to
stay in the game by removing blocks. Although it looks similar to
Polytris, it is a different game. Rows or columns with 1 to 4 squares
drop from top and stop when they hit other blocks or bottom. The
squares can be removed by arranging them in sequences of 3 or more of
the same color horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Poly-RC
features bomb, weight and radiation.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/poly-rc-109.hqx; 299K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:30:49 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Poly-Tile 1.09
Poly-Tile is a board game with color pieces on hexagonal or square
grid. It is easy to learn, but hard to master. The object of the game
is to remove all the pieces except one in as few moves as possible. A
move is a piece jumping over another piece and landing on a blank
space or another piece.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/poly-tile-109.hqx; 268K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:31:41 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] PolyMine 1.09
PolyMine is a game with special grid and mines. The objective is find
all the safe place without stepping on a mine. You can adjust the
difficulty of the game by selecting the number of mines, holes and the
shape of grid.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/polymine-109.hqx; 203K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:32:08 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Polytris 1.09
Polytris is a game with falling polyomino blocks, 1 to 5 connected
square blocks. The objective is to stay in the game by removing rows.
Rows will be removed when they are filled without holes. Polytris is
more challenging because it has 29 kinds of blocks, bombs, weights and
water balloons. You can adjust the difficulty of the game by setting
preferences.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/polytris-109.hqx; 309K]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 03:12:34 -0700
From: (John Neil & Associates)[email protected]
Subject: [*] SoftwareFPU 3.04
SoftwareFPU is a Macintosh utility which allows applications requiring
a Floating Point Unit (FPU) to work on computers without one, such as the
IIsi, IIvi, LC series, Classic II & Color Classic series, Performa series,
Power Macintosh, and some models of PowerBook, PowerBook Duo, and Quadra
series. Put the SoftwareFPU control panel in your Control Panels folder
and restart and FPU applications that formerly crashed will begin working.
SoftwareFPU requires a 68020, 68030, 68LC040, or PowerPC processor.
SoftwareFPU is fully System 7.5 compatible.
The shareware 68K-only version of SoftwareFPU is available on America
Online (keyword MUT), CompuServe (GO MACSYS), via anonymous ftp
(ftp.netcom.com, /pub/jo/johnneil), from our Web site (http://www.jna.com)
or from Macintosh User's Groups around the world. If you use shareware
SoftwareFPU you must register with John Neil & Associates. The shareware
version will work on Power Macintosh computers but is not PowerPC-native.
A commercial 68K/PowerPC version with twice the performance on Power
Macintoshes can be obtained by registering with John Neil & Associates.
Current registered 68K-only users can upgrade to the 68K/PowerPC version
for $10.
To register, send a check, money order, credit card, or purchase order
to John Neil & Associates, P.O. Box 2156, Cupertino, CA 95015. The
registration fee for the shareware 68K-only version of SoftwareFPU is just
$10. To receive the "fat" 68K/PowerPC version with twice the performance
on Power Macintoshes, send $20. You can register on-line using CompuServe
(GO SWREG), or by calling (800) 663-2943, or by fax at (415) 661-2944, or
by e-mail at [email protected]. All registered users will receive a special
registered version of SoftwareFPU in the mail that allows the startup
"thank you" balloon to be hidden. Sorry, the registered version cannot be
delivered by e-mail, but overnight delivery is available.
Registration information and a registration form are available at the
end of the "About SoftwareFPU" document or by clicking the "Plea" button in
the SoftwareFPU control panel.
SoftwareFPU 3.04 fixes a problem on Macintoshes with PowerPC upgrade
cards, repairs a bug in some trigonometric routines, and includes updated
registration information. It also contains information on PowerFPU, a new
and much faster 68K FPU emulator for the Power Macintosh only. Updates are
also included to upgrade registered SoftwareFPU 3.01, 3.02, or 3.03 users
to SoftwareFPU 3.04.
John Neil Information: [email protected]
John Neil & Associates Sales: [email protected]
Support: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/software-fpu-304.hqx; 369K]
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Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 23:36:49 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#330/27-May-96
TidBITS#330/27-May-96
Thinking about buying a $500 Internet appliance this year? Apple, IBM,
Netscape, and others are looking for your business! Also this week,
information on a new update to RAM Doubler and a virus-infected CD-ROM
>From MacUser UK, plus an overview of StuffIt Deluxe 4.0. We round out the
issue with a look at Apple's new impossible Web marketing, and Tonya
re-examines something you'd think would be simple: ReadMe files.
Topics:
MailBITS/27-May-96
Get Stuffed, Yet Again
Visions of a Network Computer
To Read or not to Read
This Site Will Self Destruct in Five Seconds
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-330.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 21 May 96 08:33:12 +0200
From: Kirk McElhearn
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=b9A=9c_A_tricky_text_substitut?=
>> >This might seem odd, but I need to be able to replace sections of a =
Word
>> >document which might look like:
>> >
>> >...and he _demanded_ the money right away or...
>> >
>> >where the word (or words) between the underscore ("_") should be turned
>> >to
>> >bold face and, ideally, the underscores deleted...
>> >
>> >Save the file in RTF format. In the rtf formatted file, do a global
>> =B9...=9C
>
>> It is easier than that. Go to Replace. For the Find leave the string
>> blank, Click on Format popup and choose Character. Click on Underline.
>> For the Replace leave the string blank, Click on Format popup and choose
>> Character. Click on Bold. Replace all.
>
>Nonsense. Of course it wouldn't work. For two reasons, (1) because
>the question here is of the underscore *character*, not the underline
>*format*, and (2) because the initial poster wanted to add a format to
>the string of character contained *within* the underscores. The RTF
>route, as described by Darrah Chavey and myself, is the only way to
>solve the problem, other than using a word processor with grep
>capabilities, such as Word 6.
Ha! Nisus Writer can do it easy!
Kirk
Kirk McElhearn
Translations from French to English, English to French
Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais
[email protected]
http://www.nirvanet.fr/kirk/kirk.html
91 rue de la Mesangerie
37540 St Cyr sur Loire
France
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Date: Tue, 28 May 96 09:23:21 -0400
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [A] Clean Install of system 7.5 (from CD)
Matt wrote:
>I was also told that if you have a system CD(which I do), that you must press
CMDshift K when the install screen comes up.Unfortunately on my Performa
>6200 CD, I only have something called restore system software
It really is much easier than that, you were told incorrectly, the
CMD shift K sequence can not be used with the performa CD's.
Here is what to do:
1) Restart from the CD.
2) Rename you old system folder 'Old system folder'
3) Trash the system and finder files from your old system folder,
be sure to empty the trash.
4) Copy the system folder from the CD to your Hard Drive.
5) Restart and then replace third party extensions and control panels.
Hope this helps.
Romulo Romero [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 96 02:11:32 -0600
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: Apple Color One Scanner
>Well, after getting everything to work properly, I went to scan once again.
>Low and behold, the same thing happened (flashing ?). I finally realised
>that if I started up with the scanner turned OFF, things were normal, but
>if it was on, it wouldn't boot up. I even tried starting up, then turning
>on my scanner, then starting the scanning software, but the result was a
>crash.
>
>I reinstalled the scanning software once more, etc., but it still won't work!
It's not software; it's a SCSI/termination problem. Usually, the Mac
won't boot if the scanner is OFF, but will if it's ON; yours is just
weird.
.Try swapping cables around and using different terminators to identify
the culprit, since it's probably a bad cable or resistor. If all else
fails--or if you just don't want to fuss with it--buy an APS SCSI Sentry
II ($80) and the problem will almost certainly go away. Brute force
solution? You bet. But it nearly always works.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected])
Creative Services, St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page at:
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Date: Tue, 28 May 96 22:32:46 EDT
From: "Robert W. Bland"
Subject: CGI programs
Dear All,
Does anyone know of a good CGI script that interprets and
executes image maps? Please e-mail respones.
Thanks,
--
Rob Bland Phone:(540)879-9974
4264 Countryside Dr. Internet: [email protected]
Bridgewater, Va 22812 http://www.agmart.com
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 11:19:33 +0200
From: [email protected] (Stefano Pizzetti)
Subject: Clean Install of system 7
Restart your Mac from the Performa CD, then open your hard disk, move the
System folder to the desktop and change its name. Trash the Finder and
reinstall System software from the CD.
Stefano Pizzetti
Roma, Italia
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Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 21:37:17 -1000
From: [email protected] (Ed Cesar)
Subject: FAX Software Opinions, Please
Hi Netters!
I would appreciate your opinions and reasons about which program you
consider best for sending and receiving faxes using a Performa.
I tried MacComCenter, Faxcilitate, and Global Fax; however, all of them
require a lot of steps. I am looking for a program that is simple to use.
A couple of years ago, according to the Mac Bible, Global Village was
considered the best. Is there anything better now?
Many thanks,
Ed Cesar
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 20:15:05 -0500
From: Eugene Cohen
Subject: FreePPP & 8500 [A]
At 4:32 PM -0400 5/25/96, Timothy Colson wrote:
> That said -> I can get FreePPP 2.5 to dial, to connect, to let me
> actually get packets across using MacTCP Ping.
> Fire up Telnet, Netscape, anything -> I can get perhaps one page...but
> DNS service is dead (despite the correct numbers in Free PPP...and after
> that first page...nothing. Dies. Type 11 error next.
Simple... those fields in FreePPP have not yet been implemented!! You must
go into MacTCP (I'm assuming MacTCP because MacTCP ping doesn't support
Open Transport, right?) and enter the DNS information there.
Eugene M. Cohen E-Mail:
[email protected]
Bradley University [email protected]
Electrical Engineering Major [email protected]
Latin School of Chicago Network Technician Phone:
Chicago: [E-mail Me]
Peoria: (309)677-1164
Home Page:
http://www.latin.pvt.k12.il.us/users/1994/eugene/
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Date: 28 May 1996 15:21:39 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: How to Delete Duplicate Data??
Help. I need a program that can look at the data in two files (source and
target) and delete any duplicate information (such as email addresses)
before copying into the target file. Any help on where to find that?
Thanks,
Mike
(please email to [email protected])
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 01:33:17 +0000
From: Jack Campin
Subject: IBM vs the Mac for table-intensive DTP
I am soon likely to be involved in preparing a small but fairly prestigious
newsletter. I would like to influence the purchasing decision about what
hardware and software to go for. This thing will have a lot of tables and
graphs, but not much other imagery - the readership doesn't care about
wimpy stuff like photos. And it will have ironclad deadlines.
So the requirement is for a DTP package that will interwork as smoothly
as possible with a spreadsheet. It will have to import text, graphs and
numerical data from a variety of other sources.
TPWWAWTC (the person who will actually write the cheque) is suffering an
acute case of Microsoft-induced FUD. The way I see it, there isn't likely
to be a great deal of difference in user interface between IBM and Mac-based
solutions for a task this simple, but the idea of depending on a Windoze
machine for anything with hard deadlines in a situation where I'll probably
have to do all the system maintenance myself is enough to put me in a cold
sweat - this message comes to you from a very low-end Mac, but I've easily
got far more functionality and incomparably more reliability out of it than
TPWWAWTC has with his current much bigger, faster and more expensive IBM
machine. The thing regularly collapses in a twitching heap and has twice
required the electronic equivalent of a heart-lung transplant.
I presume the spreadsheet better be Excel, on whatever platform. Does
anybody out there have experience with this combined with a major DTP
package on *both* Macs and Intel machines? Or some figures on what the
DTP business as a whole tends to go for? - pretty much everyone I've ever
heard of who does small-scale DTP uses a Mac, and I presume there's a good
reason for that.
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 12:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Scott G. Lewis"
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #122
From: [email protected] (Ken Laskey)
Subject: LockFont
I recently noticed that I something called LockFont in my font list. On
the screen, all characters appear as bullets and nothing prints out on
hardcopy. I have no idea from where it came from or for what is it used.
Any suggestions?
-------------------------------------
Probably an application (most likely shareware). I've seen that font (or
one similar to it) on Info-mac, it's supposed to be an easy way for
someone writing software to allow passwords to be hidden, since every
character looks like a bullet, if that font is used in the field where a
password would be entered, it would appear to echo bullets, as opposed to
putting the actual password on screen.
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 13:21:07 +0200
From: [email protected] (FranCois Lombard)
Subject: Maintaining a Mac Lab
[email protected] asked
>
> Does anyone know of any good, affordable shareware products which help
> manage a school Macintosh Lab.?
*Assimilator (any infomac archive) is good and very Macintosh-like in its
manners: you give a color to the files on th server according to what has
to be done to them (updating, deleting etc)
*RevRdist (cc.purdue.edu) is very powerful, but the learning curve is steep.
You have a script with this sort of syntax
Audio stack : VuNuE-
F. Lo
FranCois Lombard
[email protected]
-
Centre informatique Pedagogique /2-4 Rue Theodore de Beze /CP 3144
CH- 1211 Geneve 3
Switzerland +41 22 318 05 30 Fax + 41 22 318 05 35
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:35:46 -0400
From: [email protected] (Norman R. Friedman)
Subject: Memory problem?
Hi,
My new Performa 6290 came with "Time" CD. This is "Time Magazine" complete
with magazines from 198? to 1995, complete with each issue, story picture
and VIDEOS.
My Mac has 100 mhz, 1.2 G HD, 40 RAM installed and yet on some of the
latest (1995) videos, I get a message that there is not enought memory to
run. It does run and run well with videos from earlier magazines. Before I
try to contact the publisher of the CD, I wanted to ask the folks in
info-mac land (who know more than the tech reps)
Thanks for all responses in advance and if anyone else has the problem, I
will forward responses.
Thanks
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:18:35 +0100
From: [email protected] (Andy Law)
Subject: Microsoft Dialog Lies
Jeffrey,
> If you turn virtual memory off (as is requested by certain applications
> such as Looking Glass Technologies "Flight Unlimited" flight sim) on a
> PowerMac and then try to launch Microsoft Word 6 or Excel 5, neither
> application will launch. Instead they will put up dialog boxes that lie to
> you. Word will say, "Can't Find Microsoft_OLE." Excel will issue a
> similarly misleading dialog box. Neither application will tell you that
> virtual memory needs to be turned on. It took me a while to figure out
> what was going on. Rather poor programming from the folks in Redmond, I
> think.
Yeah, took us a while to work this one out. This is because the Microsoft
apps shared libraries and code take up so much memory. Having virtual
memory on means that the damn things can run in less than 16MB. If you
don't have at least 24MB RAM, Excel just will not be able to find enough
memory to run unless Virtual memory is turned on. Take a look at the
delightful message about how much the memory requirements will change when
you turn VM on/off in the Get Info... dialog box.
Actually, the dialog is partially correct - Excel _can't_ find
Microsoft_OLE in memory.
Incidentally, Microsoft also market a programming environment called Visual
C++ which runs on IBM compatibles and generates code for PowerMac
computers. I quote from the advertising blurb.
"Code Fragment support for the Power Macintosh, which translates to
better code sharing among applications and faster, trimmer applications."
Mmmmmmmm. I don't think so.
Later,
Andy Law
( [email protected] Big Nose in Edinburgh )
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:21:05 -0700
From: [email protected] (John Watkins)
Subject: Need Advice With Config PPP
Please email me advice to: [email protected]
Problem: - when I close Netscape after a session I frequently get
the message, " The Control Panel Config PPP Cannot Be Used Now Because Not
Enough Memory Is Available. " This occurs in sessions after a large
download and the Netscape icon flashes alternately with the Finder icon.
If I attempt to re-open Config PPP, I get the message " Config PPP Error
Opening Preferences " I then have to Restart to open Config PPP or to close
my connection.
System: - Mac LC (don't laugh, have sympathy); System 7.0.1; 10
MB memory - 6MB free - 3990K used by system; MacTCP; Config PPP 2.0.1;
Netscape Navigator 2.01
Attempted: - have increased Netscape's memory allotment beyond
reason. Can't determine if this can be done for either MacTCP or Config
PPP.
Suspicion: - could this be somehow related to Netscape cache
clean-ups?
I sure will appreciate any guidance offered! Thanks.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* John and/or Judy Watkins, *
* [email protected] *
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:21:48 +0100
From: [email protected] (Max Marrison)
Subject: Printing Problems
Hi Macsters
I would be very grateful if anyone could help by offering a solution to the
printing problems which I am presently experiencing. Basically, I cannot
print out on my Laserwriter 630 (using 7.2 driver software). I use a
PowerPC 5200 running OS 7.5.3 and a Powerbook PowerPC running 7.5.2. Both
machines have 16mb of RAM, with around 10mb free of real memory.
When I go to print, the print monitor comes out repeatedly with
insufficient memory. A dialogue box informs me to adjust the memory size,
however, when I do this it still will not print. I cannot print out a one
page SimpleText document using either foreground or background printing.
On occasions, I can print out when I unmount a server from the desktop.
This may suggest that there is insufficient heap memory.
If anyone can help please drop me an email (at: [email protected])
or write to the info-mac digest. Thanks in advance.
Best Wishes, Max
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:21:48 +0100
From: [email protected] (Max Marrison)
Subject: Printing Problems
Hi Macsters
I would be very grateful if anyone could help by offering a solution to the
printing problems which I am presently experiencing. Basically, I cannot
print out on my Laserwriter 630 (using 7.2 driver software). I use a
PowerPC 5200 running OS 7.5.3 and a Powerbook PowerPC running 7.5.2. Both
machines have 16mb of RAM, with around 10mb free of real memory.
When I go to print, the print monitor comes out repeatedly with
insufficient memory. A dialogue box informs me to adjust the memory size,
however, when I do this it still will not print. I cannot print out a one
page SimpleText document using either foreground or background printing.
On occasions, I can print out when I unmount a server from the desktop.
This may suggest that there is insufficient heap memory.
If anyone can help please drop me an email (at: [email protected])
or write to the info-mac digest. Thanks in advance.
Best Wishes, Max
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 19:53:00 -0400
From: [email protected] (Bill Ingraham)
Subject: Puzzle
I am suddenly getting this error message at almost every turn as I go from
one app to another:
Voice Box error; cannot find the Speech Synthesizer
I have no idea what made this show up, nor how to deal with it. Any help
greatly appreciated. (Performa 630 CD, 7.5.1)
Bill Ingraham
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 16:19:09 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Q: How to automatically reboot a machine when it crashes
I am responcable for keeping a IIcx running a mail gateway up 24/7,
but it likes to crash every 2 days or so. Is there any software or
hardware solution that will reboot the machine when it goes south?
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:11:55 +0100
From: "H. Schlichter"
Subject: sad mac 0000000F / 0000000C
After experiencing some disk problems on my Mac SE/030 I run Norton
Utilities which discovered a partition map problem. It could not repair it
and suggest to backup the files and reformat the disk. I did reformat the
disk (using the utilities from FWB) and everything went fine.
After caopying back all my saved files I tried to reboot the machine;
however without any success. I got the sad Mac with the error message
0000000F
0000000C
There was also new chance to boot from a floppy or the external Syquest
drive.
Can anybody tell me what the error code mean and what went wrong?
Thanks very much
/Hans
E-Mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:11:55 +0100
From: "H. Schlichter"
Subject: sad mac 0000000F / 0000000C
After experiencing some disk problems on my Mac SE/030 I run Norton
Utilities which discovered a partition map problem. It could not repair it
and suggest to backup the files and reformat the disk. I did reformat the
disk (using the utilities from FWB) and everything went fine.
After caopying back all my saved files I tried to reboot the machine;
however without any success. I got the sad Mac with the error message
0000000F
0000000C
There was also new chance to boot from a floppy or the external Syquest
drive.
Can anybody tell me what the error code mean and what went wrong?
Thanks very much
/Hans
E-Mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:25:11 +0200
From: [email protected] (Alessandro Sbrana)
Subject: Subject: Mac X server?
> Can anyone give me names, prices, and personal impressions for
> Macintosh-based Xwindows servers? (i.e., I want to use my Mac as an X
> terminal). I'm particularly looking for low price, "virtual screens" ala
> ctwm, and a Motif- or Openlook-like window manager.
A complete description/test of four X-servers is on May-1996 Macworld.
A condensed article can be found on Macworld's WWW pages.
Ciao,
Alessandro
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 May 96 13:16:57 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: System 7.5 Update 2.0 Problem
I thought I'd pass along what I believe may be a bug in Apple's System
7.5 Update 2.0 (System 7.5.3) installation diskettes and/or their
installer application.
Specifically, when choosing either the "Easy Install" or "Custom
Install" options, if the installer needs to use disk 13 in the floppy
disk version, the installation will fail. The installer will tell you
that the installation failed due to an error and that your hard drive
was left untouched.
This occurred while running the installer with extensions off.
At first, I believed there was a problem with the hard drive on my
Powerbook 520C running System 7.5 (8 mb RAM). After running Norton
Utilities 3.2, a few disk-related errors were found and were repaired.
But my second installation attempt also failed at the exact same
point...disk 13.
My next guess was that disk 13 had a disk error of some kind. But
Norton Utilities found no errors. Knowing that nothing is foolproof, I
decided to format the disk anyway and create a new diskette from the
disk 13 image file (Apple Disk Copy 4.2 format) found on the System 7.5
Update 2.0 CD-ROM.
As a side note, Apple was nice enough to send me both the CD-ROM and
floppy version at my request...I've got to give them credit for that!.
Anyway, the new disk appeared to copy and verify ok, according to Disk
Copy 4.2. But my third attempt at installation failed again at disk 13.
At this point, I was stumped...temporarily. As a hunch, I tried
renaming disk 13. What if there was some kind of weird error causing an
invisible character of some kind to be present in the disk name on the
original master floppy AND in the disk 13 image file on the CD-ROM?
After deleting the existing disk name I re-typed the original disk
name, "System 7.5 Update 2.0 - 13" and it worked! My fourth
installation attempt went smoothly after I renamed that diskette.
By the way, the CD-ROM version of the update installer worked without a
glitch on my Power Mac 7100/66 (16 mb RAM; ran installer with extensions
off).
So...I don't know if I'm the only one to have run into this problem or
not, but I thought others might be interested to know about this problem
that I've run into.
--
Gann Matsuda
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 96 19:10:14 BST
From: Maurice Naftalin
Subject: Virus warning for UK MacUser readers
I can't vouch for the following (not got access to the disk) but just in case:
>>To: [email protected], [email protected]
>>Reply-To: Paul Leyland
>>Sender: [email protected]
>>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>
>>
>>I'm spreading this information around as widely as I can, given the
>>widespread distribution of the offending CD. Please forward as
>>appropriate.
>>
>>OxCERT have received a warning that there is a Macintosh virus on the
>>covermounted CD-ROM with this fortnight's UK MacUser magazine (the 24th
>>May 96 issue).
>>
>>The virus is MDBF-A and it is in a Director movie called "Blah Blah
>>Blah, It's QTVR" in the QuickTime VR demos -- in a folder called
>>AMXDigital QTVR Folder. We believe that no other files are affected.
>>
>>Please ensure that you do not run this movie.
>>
>>If you think your machine may be infected with a virus you should:
>>
>>a) DON'T PANIC
>>
>>b) Consult your local virus expert for assistance (unless, of course,
>> you are the local expert!)
>>
>>Thanks are due to Tony Brett for first drawing this to our attention,
>>and to Peter Higginbotham for verifying that the virus is present on his
>>copy of the CD-ROM
>>
>>
>>Paul Leyland (OxCERT)
>>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>Version: 2.6.2
>>Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface
>>
>>iQCVAwUBMaNDfKNsRd57vOpJAQFvnAQAr4zrHm/4A6i9XusJpkw8MiACJMszJnj5
>>8WWUrIrgHHfE9GeuIjBgbj7/nmgcm2kpljhQpKoyG1DJhRqa9j/oCsIsZ6eqP3VI
>>OorSqt+wOIyYztQtFWvH6hFWp+tnLksjEEUrd1+m4rpjlybH6vLtPbKQw7ZUylBB
>>vzTux1rDoyk=
>>=Wkoz
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Maurice Naftalin
Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Croydon, UK.
[I think it is safe to say this is a "true" rumor now. I've seen notes about
it in tidbits as well as on comp.sys.mac.announce this morning. Note that
disinfectant will remove this virus (MDEF-B, I think). You can find it in
any of our mirrors, in info-mac/vir/disinfectant-36.hqx. -Gordon]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 16:25:10 -0500
From: Eric Peters
Subject: Where to buy Powerbook 180c Hard Drives?
I KNOW these have been discontinued, but does anyone out there know
where I can buy an internal hard drive for a Powerbook 180c? The
bigger the better. The biggest I have been able to find so far is
>From APS: 340 MB for $399 (YEESH, you can buy 1 GIG IDE drives for
that much!).
TIA,
Eric Peters
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 18:15:22 +0000
From: Richard Huggins
Subject: Word and QMS printer
If anyone is using both MS Word 5.1a and a QMS printer (preferably a
1660), please e-mail me for dialog about one aspect: the Envelopes
feature. I can't figure out a software/hardware settings configuration
that allows for envelopes to print correctly when printed from this
feature. I've resorted to using one of the old envelope templates
provided, but the Envelopes feature is handier and more elegant.to use.
--
Richard Huggins
Tyler, Texas
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 28 May 96 10:38:49 EDT
From: [email protected]
>From jschrade Tue May 28 10:40 EDT 1996 remote from 580howard
Received: from 580howard by gbsmail.gbcs.att.com; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:40 EDT
Received: by gbsmail with Microsoft Mail
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>From: "Jody Schraden"
To: "Info Mac Digest"
Subject: US Robotics Sportster
Date: Tue May 28 10:43 EDT 1996
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Hello,
Thanks to Jim Yarrow of the Orange County Register and all of the other
people who responded to my question on the US Robotics modem. I did get it
to work with my PowerMac 7500 by changing the DIP switches as Jim suggested.
In case anyone missed his suggestion, here it is.
To use a US Robotics Sportster Modem (PC kind not Mac & Fax) on a Mac.
set DIP switches 1,3,5,7 and 8 in the Down (On) position. If you require
auto-answer, leave DIP switch 5 in the UP (Off) position. You will also need
a 'hardware handshaking' cable.
Many people also suggested using specific init strings. This was not
necessary for me. Changing the DIP swithces did the trick. Modem works like
a charm now.
Thanks again,
Jody Schraden
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