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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 12 Jun 96 Volume 14 : Issue 141
Today's Topics:
[*] Active Memory 2.01 US personal organizer/database
[*] A Day In New York City 3.3
[*] Babylon Book V.9 Season 1
[*] CHN calculator
[*] DiskTracker 1.0.2->1.0.3 updater
[*] DiskTracker 1.0.3
[*] IntelliBots 1.1.0 Updater
[*] IntelliBots 1.1.1
[*] IntelliBots 1.1.1 Press Kit
[*] IntelliBots 1.1.1 Updater
[*] MacZoop- a tiny C++ app framework
[*] NameCleaner 1.3.0
[*] Omega for Macintosh Ver.0.80.2 rev2
[*] PrefKiller 1.0
[*] Seth's Wolf 3D Levels
[*] Sound Studio
[*] TidBITS#332/10-Jun-96
(A) Remote users & groups
8500 Video Out Woes
[A] Multiple Eudora Passwords
[A] two macs one geoport--check out Stalker.
CD-ROM Drive Trouble
ConfigPPP
Espy Sans TT font
Get more info
Info-Mac Digest V14 #138
Info Alley
Microsoft Project and alternatives
Modem Speed monitor????
MS Exchange Mac client & NT Server
PC Exchange in reverse?
Power Macintosh GeoPort support
Question on adapters for TV/VCR
Ready,Set,Go 7.0 ships for MAC ONLY!
SCSI Director and 7.5.3?
Solution: Zip disks unreadable
Summary of Ram recommandation.
System 7.5.3 R2 (C)
Telnet to a remote POP account?
Using a PC Formatted SyQuest 270meg with a Mac
View Control Panel
What is my RAM speed?
Zip Drive on PowerBook 5300
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:20:30 -0700
From: (Philippe Caudron)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Active Memory 2.01 US personal organizer/database
Active memory is a personal organizer used as an application with MacOs 7
and later. It allows you to track personal, or group oriented, informations
and to organize in time your projects or day to day actions.
Active Memory has all the functions needed to define:
- the type of activities,
- their expiration date,
- the eventual list of participants,
- The alerts or events to take place at a given time, ...
Active Memory can import or export all your data to and from other
applications. It gives you the possibility to define macros that are
launched at a precise time. Using standard System 7 functionalities you can
Publish&Subscribe data, get balloon-help, or launch AppleEvents at a set
time and/or date.
Active Memory can also be used for real-time communications on a network.
it will work as a "lite" version if not registered.
=A91989-1996 BCDL
http://www.netinfo.fr/ObjectLand/Active/
thanks
[Archived as /info-mac/data/active-memory-201.hqx; 403K]
[Archived as /info-mac/data/active-memory-201-fr.hqx; 413K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:51:18 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] A Day In New York City 3.3
A Day In New York version 3.3 is a HyperCard game which puts you into
New York City as a graduate student, and presents you with the
problems that follow (or, at least, a few of them). Based on the
writer's own experience, A Day In New York has been expanded to
include an extra day and a sojourn in Rhode Island. Most objects are
clickable and surprises are intended.
Requires HyperCard or HyperCard Player 2.0 or higher. Should run fine
on a Mac Plus or above.
$5 shareware. Registration allows the user to bypass an annoying page
but that's about it - full access is given to everyone.
Version 3.3 brings some code and text streamlining.
Thank you.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/day-in-new-york-city-33-hc.hqx; 160K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:52:34 -0700
From: (Ken Linger)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Babylon Book V.9 Season 1
This Newton book contains the complete text from the online Babylon 5
Episode Guide which can be found on
http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurker.html. Originally, I created one book
which contained only the episode descriptions and a little background
information. I had to truncate the "jms speaks" sections due to space and
memory. The few letters I received about the guide asked me to either put
them back in or, at least, provide an alternate, larger version for those
with the memory and gas-powered Newtons.
I now have both, so I decided to recreate the guide from scratch. But, to
be fair, I'm splitting each season into a seperate book. Those of you with
20 meg flash-RAM cards can fill up a percentage with the entire episode
guides (currently three). Those of you with less can install the seasons
they want to read.
These guides are made without permission (or knowledge) from J. Michael
Straczynski. You should not have had to pay anything to get the books,
except for the minimal cost of obtaining them (such as download time, cost
of a CD-ROM, etc). Permission is granted to redistribute this in small or
large quantities. However, if you are going to mass distribute it (such as
on CD) then I just ask that you let me know and give me the option of
obtaining a copy at cost (or free). While the writing is not mine, I did
spend many hours compiling all the text, formatting, and indexing.
Future versions will possibly have more indexing and links. Perhaps it may
even mimic the Hyperion web site with graphics and such. Perhaps.
Comments are welcomed and encouraged. E-mail me: [email protected].
The more comments, the greater the chance that there will be a next version.
Seasons two and three will be uploaded shortly.
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/info/babylon-5-book-season-1.hqx; 290K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:52:13 -0700
From: (Gabriel Weatherhead)[email protected]
Subject: [*] CHN calculator
This is a Filemaker Pro 3 file for chemists. It will calculate the
theoretical Carbon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen percentages from a molecular
formula. It will also calculate the CHN with a mole percentage range of
an impurity. Great for matching a CHN with an unknown amount of an
impurity. It has a standard list of common impurities, as well as the
abillity to enter the molecular formula of the impurity. There is also a
reaction calculator included, that will determine quantities of reagents
based on density, equivalents, molarities, etc. It was created by myself
and is shareware.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/chn-calculator-fm3.hqx; 393K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:19:50 -0700
From: (Mark Pirri)[email protected]
Subject: [*] DiskTracker 1.0.2->1.0.3 updater
This file updates DiskTracker updates DiskTracker 1.0.2 to 1.0.3. It
requires that you already have DiskTracker 1.0.2. You can also download
the entire 1.0.3 package elsewhere in this forum.
Changes in 1.0.3:
- Fixed bug that causes certain files not to be able to be opened (bug
produced error -39 or out of disk space error)
- files which behave this way in previous versions of DiskTracker open fine
in 1.0.3.
- Bug with mispositioning rotated, non-left-justified text when printing
labels has been fixed.
- Overall memory management improved - should increase stability.
- -49 error when saving over existing open file fixed.
- Option-clicking hierarchy triangles now expands all sub-hierarchies
(before you could only do this by option-shift-right-arrowing)
- You no longer can open more than one label template editor window or
label preview window from the same catalog (DiskTracker used to crash if
you tried to do this).
- Improved (slightly faster) sorting algorithm when opening files.
- Memory leak when cancelling open-file fixed.
- Crash when nothing is selected in Search Result Window and return is
pressed was fixed.
- Crashes when dealing with multiple Get Info windows in several different
catalogs have been fixed.
- Style changes on groups of selected items in Label Template Editor now
work properly.
- File saving behavior bugs fixed in Label Template Editor.
- When opening catalog files, window width is now more intelligently set.
- Redraw glitch with selection marquee and scroll bar fixed.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-tracker-102-to-103-upd.hqx; 174K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:20:01 -0700
From: (Mark Pirri)[email protected]
Subject: [*] DiskTracker 1.0.3
DiskTracker is an extremely powerful and flexible disk cataloging and
management system. It combines a huge feature set with a really easy to
use Mac-like interface. With DiskTracker, you can quickly and easily
create a catalog of every file on every one of your floppy disks, hard
drives, CD-ROMs, optical drives, servers, or whatever. Naturally,
DiskTracker can read into StuffIt and Compact Pro archives and
self-expanding applications.
After scanning your disks, you can then search the catalog at unbelievable
speeds with the powerful searching facility (including multi-parameter and
duplicate file searching). You can easily create professional looking disk
labels with the built in disk labeling facility and label template designer.
Features include:
-View the contents of scanned volumes in a familiar easy-to-use
System-7-style file list.
-Built in (fast!) virtual memory scheme ensures that you won't run out of
memory, even when scanning huge volumes and CD-ROMs with only 600K of
allocated RAM!
-Intelligent disk scanner can operate in the background and allows either
scans of online volumes and servers or floppy disks (insert disks one at a
time to scan them).
-Launch files directly from the program, or have the finder display them
for you.
-Fast, multi-parameter (use AND, OR, or XOR) searches. Search on almost 20
different criteria!
-Really powerful disk labeling system allows completely automated disk
label production.
-Draw your own label templates using the built in MacDraw(tm)-style
template editor, featuring powerful file-lists and rotatable text.
-Fat binary runs in native mode on PowerMacs or on 680x0 based machines.
-Plus much, much, much more!
DiskTracker requires System 7.0 or later and at least 600K of available
memory.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-tracker-103.hqx; 781K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:22:52 -0700
From: (Harry Mahoney)[email protected]
Subject: [*] IntelliBots 1.1.0 Updater
IntelliBots 1.1.0 Updater is an updater for users of previous versions of
IntelliBots. It contains the bug fixes and enhancements.
IntelliBots 1.1.1 is a demo version of the complete IntelliBots system
including the first six chapters of the student's manual. It can be fully
enabled after purchasing the software. This new version, besides bug fixes
and enhancements, now runs native on PowerMacs.
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/intelli-bots-110-updt.hqx; 577K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:22:54 -0700
From: (Harry Mahoney)[email protected]
Subject: [*] IntelliBots 1.1.1
IntelliBots 1.1.1.sit is a demo version of the complete IntelliBots system
including the first six chapters of the student's manual. It can be fully
enabled after purchasing the software. This new version, besides bug fixes
and enhancements, now runs native on PowerMacs.
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/intelli-bots-111.hqx; 3427K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:22:56 -0700
From: (Harry Mahoney)[email protected]
Subject: [*] IntelliBots 1.1.1 Press Kit
IntelliBotsPressKit contains information to help decide if you want to
try IntelliBots. This includes the press release and screen shots.
IntelliBots 1.1.1 is a demo version of the complete IntelliBots system
including the first six chapters of the student's manual. It can be fully
enabled after purchasing the software. This new version, besides bug fixes
and enhancements, now runs native on PowerMacs.
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/intelli-bots-press-kit.hqx; 172K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:52:41 -0700
From: (Harry Mahoney)[email protected]
Subject: [*] IntelliBots 1.1.1 Updater
IntelliBots 1.1.1 Updater is an updater for IntelliBots 1.1. It contains
the PowerMac code.
IntelliBots 1.1.1 is a demo version of the complete IntelliBots system
including the first six chapters of the student's manual. It can be fully
enabled after purchasing the software. This new version, besides bug fixes
and enhancements, now runs native on PowerMacs.
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/intelli-bots-11-to-111-updt.hqx; 224K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:18:56 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] MacZoop- a tiny C++ app framework
Description: MacZoop is a tiny C++ application framework suitable for
learning C++ or small projects. Easily extensible, totally FREE. Requires
CodeWarrior 8.0 or similar.
Author: Graham Cox ([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/mac-zoop-10.hqx; 170K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:20:20 -0700
From: (Gideon Greenspan)[email protected]
Subject: [*] NameCleaner 1.3.0
NameCleaner is a utility to clean up messy file names. It's purpose is to:
* Give files with DOS/Windows extensions Mac Type/Creator codes and suffixes.
* Remove non-viewable characters, "smart"en quotes, and pad out punctuations.
* Automatically capitalise words of different lengths, and apply a dictionary.
* Find and replace any definable phrase with a corresponding phrase.
* Append file information (size, date and type) with a dictionary for types.
* Filter Mac names for MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows95, NetWare and others.
* Give files with definable Types corresponding DOS and Windows Extensions.
* It is specially designed to help move files to and from foreign file systems
such as MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows95, Windows NT, NetWare, UNIX and Linux.
Version 1.3.0 improvements
-------------------------
* Added in default DOS to Mac and Mac to DOS extensions and suffixes.
* Improved memory shortage management, including occasional crashes.
* Cleared up small issues, including notifying the Finder of name changes.
NameCleaner is shareware, and requires System 7.
(c) Gideon Greenspan -- 29th May 1996.
eMail : [email protected] (until May 1998)
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/name-cleaner-130.hqx; 93K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:19:13 -0700
From: (Fukuda Yoshibumi)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Omega for Macintosh Ver.0.80.2 rev2
"Omega for Macintosh" is a rogue-like multi-dungeon game which runs on
Apple Macintosh series.
This game is based on Omega version 0.80.2 and is implemented some more
features in it. Also, some bugs within the previous release are fixed (see
release note).
---------
Una ola desde el mar.
Yoshibumi Fukuda
e-mail: [email protected]
homepage: http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~fuk/
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/omega-0802-rev-2.hqx; 468K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:22:59 -0700
From: (T.Kosaka)[email protected]
Subject: [*] PrefKiller 1.0
'PrefKiller' is an application to clean up 'NOT NEEDED' preference files
in 'preferences' folder. You can search preference files that have no
owner files (Applications, Extensions or Control Panels) and move
them into trash. I think that this is small but useful.
This is Shareware but fully functional.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/pref-killer-10.hqx; 142K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:51:46 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Seth's Wolf 3D Levels
This is a Wolfenstein levels file,please distribute this as much as possible!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/wolf/seths-wolf-3d-levels.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:23:01 -0700
From: (JEFF R Ellis)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Sound Studio
Stack that is used to put sound in your stack. Like audio help but more
space to put buttons. Also has directions on how to add sound to your
stack. Freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/sound-studio-hc.hqx; 74K]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:44:42 -0700
From: "Adam C. Engst"
Subject: [*] TidBITS#332/10-Jun-96
TidBITS#332/10-Jun-96
This issue comes to you despite a plethora of SCSI problems and
includes articles miraculously retrieved from the jaws of complete data
corruption. This week we bring you news about the latest System software
update from Apple, a review of Gif*gIf*giF (a utility for making animated
GIFs of onscreen actions), and a long look at the computer book publishing
process, complete with lots of advice for aspiring authors.
Topics:
MailBITS/10-Jun-96
Hold It Right There, Buster!
Go for the GIF: Gif*gIf*giF
The Process of Publishing
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-332.etx; 30K]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:47:09 -0700
From: [email protected] (Doug Brouwer, Santa Cruz)
Subject: (A) Remote users & groups
suggests:
>The solution to your client's problem is to purchase Claris Emailer,
>designed specifically for multi-account email users.
I would offer a less expensive solution that may work for the original
poster. FreePPP 2.5, available in the archives, is freeware connection
software that replaces the various versions of MacPPP and allows the user
to choose from multiple account and location configurations when making a
connection. switching between location-specific modem or dialing
configurations is useful, for example, when you need to dial zero for an
outside line from the office but not from home. I use FreePPP with Eudora-J
(the Japanese environment version of Eudora), and once I figured out how to
input the modem inits properly, I have had no trouble. The interface is
also a charmer. Best of luck.
Hart Larrabee, Nagano Japan
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:39:53 -0700
From: [email protected] (Doug Brouwer, Santa Cruz)
Subject: [A] two macs one geoport--check out Stalker.
>we have a mac with a geoport on the modem port and another mac connected =
to
>the first one via localtalk. Any possibility to have the second mac being
>served the geoport for ppp?
Give PortShare a try. It works very well for me for several Macs using the =
same fax-modem, including PPP. [email protected] should be able to tell =
you if it works with the Geoport. InfoMac archives have the demo version, =
so does Stalker's server. I have found all of Stalker Software's products =
to be excellent. I also use LineShare which allows one modem to have =
incoming and outgoing connections for data, ARA and Fax. PortConnector =
lets apps which only allow modem or printer port connections to use other =
ports (such as PortShare ports). And Communigate is a great network =
e-mail, fax and (soon, I hope) voicemail suite which requires only one =
voice capable fax modem on one non-dedicated server! And it works! And =
it's very reasonably priced! And their e-mail support is responsive! All =
by Stalker: .=20
Believe it or not I have no ties to Stalker. I'm just a great fan. I =
should say, though, that if you try any of these products and they don't =
seem to work correctly, don't give up. They do need to be configured =
correctly, and my experience has been that the manuals/instructions are =
sometimes a bit cryptic but once you figure it out and get the =
configurations right, they're quite solid.
Doug=
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:07:11 -0700
From: [email protected] (Rob C.)
Subject: CD-ROM Drive Trouble
Hi-
After using it for awhile, I've been having trouble with my CD-ROM drive.
It's been real humid lately, maybe that's affecting it but when I put a
CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive, it just keeps blinking and making noise trying
to find information on the CD and in the mean time I can use the computer
as normal. Sometimes, the CD comes on as a document and when I open it it
says that there is nothing in it but it still has the same name in it and
everything. I've tried some of the settings in the control panel, trashing
the preferences and reinstalling the FWB Toolkit but it isn't really
working. Thanks for any advice you might have!
-Rob C.
* New Light Multimedia *
[email protected]
http://www.nworks.com/Rob
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 21:41:28 -0400
From: [email protected] (Bill Ingraham)
Subject: ConfigPPP
Norton Utilities tells me that I need to get a clean copy of ConfigPPP, but
where? I have looked all over the Net with no luck. Help, anyone?
Bill
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:14:40 -0600
From: Jesse Hall
Subject: Espy Sans TT font
I don't know if anyone is working on a TT version of Espy Sans, but I
know that one version already exists. It was installed by the eWorld
software on my Performa. Although I never used eWorld (even when it
existed), I kept the font around, and I use it for my Finder font (set
in the Views control panel). So if any of you have the eWorld software
lying around, try getting the font from there. It should be installed
in a folder called "eWorld fonts" in your Fonts folder if you ever
installed the eWorld software (and never removed the fonts).
Jesse Hall
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:46:46 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Get more info
A few weeks ago I installed something that gave me a "Get More Info"
command in the Finder for any highlighted file. The type and creator were
displayed and could be changed. Then I upgraded to Sustem 7.5.3 and this
whatever-it-was disappeared. I *thought* it was Stuffit Browser from
Stuffit4, but apparently not. Can anyone remind me?
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:52:47 +0900
From: DJ Feldmeyer
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #138
Subject:
No drag-and-drop support in apple's findfile program
Date:
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:50:12 +0200
From:
Dirk Prange
Hallo to everyone reading this!
I'm using the german version of system 7.5.3 on my 7200/75 and
experienced a little problem with apple's findfile program.
Drag-and-drop with found objects does not work, against all
announcements in the help menu.
You need to have the Apple Scripting Extension loaded in your
extensions folder.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:08:08 -0600
From: [email protected] (Noah Sager)
Subject: Info Alley
For quite a while I have been eager for a Info Alley issue. It is
suppose to come once a day and it has been 4 since i subscribed. I do not
think I subscribed correctly. I have subscribed to many other mailing lists
so I don't think I did anything wrong. Could someone please tell me EXACTLY
how to subscribe to Info Alley. Thank You
Noah Sager
[email protected]
www.tripod.com/~sagern/index.html
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:14:41 -0400
From: [email protected] (Stan Hadley)
Subject: Microsoft Project and alternatives
In the near future I hope to get involved with a new project that will let
me justify upgrading from my Centris 650 to a new machine (hopefully a
PowerCenter 150!) However, the project leader wants me to take over some of
the project scheduling and she uses Microsoft Project on a Wintel box. I
see three options to avoid having to upgrade(!?!) to a Wintel box for
compatability: 1) Microsoft Project comes in a Mac flavor (I don't think
so), 2) use Softwindows, 3) use another project management software that
is either compatible with Project or I can convince her she doesn't need to
have the project on her machine also or the software comes in Windows also.
Do any of you have advice on these options? About 5 years ago I used Open
Plan which sat on top of Foxpro and was available for both Mac and Windows,
but it was pretty heavy duty for what I think will be needed. But I could
go with it if need be. Are there other packages out there? How well would
Project work with Softwindows?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Stan Hadley, [email protected]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:46:39 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Modem Speed monitor????
Dear Info-Mac-ites
Does anyone know if there is a utility available that will monitor the
throughput of my modem? I've got a 28.8 bps modem that seems to be
transferring at much less than the expected speed and I'd like to rest it
to see if it is actually transferring at 28.8 bps.
I know that there used to be a utility that consisted of an extension and
an application that would do this very thing, but the name escapes me.
Thanks,
Aaron Blanchard
[email protected]
[If you need to monitor transfers over PPP/SLIP connection you might try
MacTCP Monitor. BTW, his new Cron is awesome!--Mike]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:47:13 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tim Biddle (317) 306-3258"
Subject: MS Exchange Mac client & NT Server
In answer to this question which provided no return e-mail address, or I would
have responded directly...
I think, but am not sure, that the Mac client is in early beta. It only works
against the PRODUCTION release of Exchange server. (which only runs on WinNT,
which is a crock of Micro$oft money making crap!, IMHO). I believe the beta
software is on the CD of the last release candidate for Exchange server. I
have installed the Mac client on a IIci, but can't evaluate it, since we are
running the last RC release of the server. As soon as we get the production
release, which I assume will come on CD, and will include the latest Mac
client beta, I should be able to give you some more feedback. The setup is
relatively straightforward, as long as you are using TCP/IP to connect with.
My IIci is running 7.5.3 with OT 1.1, by the way.
Tim Biddle
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:59:18 +0000
From: [email protected] (Tara Merrigan)
Subject: PC Exchange in reverse?
Fellow Mac-addicts,
This one is for anyone who exchanges files with Windows 95 users. Does
anyone know of a W95-friendly equivalent of PC Exchange? The solution I've
used until now has been MacInDos, which despite the ugly & clumsy
interface, accepted Mac disks & files without too much hassle.
Ideally I'm looking for some kind of extension, rather than application,
but an application will do if that's all I can find. MacInDos is
effectively useless with W95 & it never supported long filenames anyhow.
Any ideas people?
Tara
Subject: Power Macintosh GeoPort support
Ever since I upgraded to System 7.5.3, the support software for the GeoPort
on my Power Macintosh 7100/66AV has been ineffective. Looking for more
recent versions on the Apple.Support.Area has not been very helpful. There
used to be something which made things even worse. Now there does not
appear to be anything at all! Is Apple discontinuing GeoPort support?
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 06:18:45 -0300
From: [email protected] (Jorge Froilan Gonzalez)
Subject: Question on adapters for TV/VCR
Dear people,
I would like to request comments/advice on choosing a mac video signal to
TV/VCR.
It will be used for presentations and tutorial development.
Although I know that the TV signal will give me less resolution than that
of a monitor, I would like to request your opinions on the quality of the
output (by example: how much flickering there may be, how readable can
text be)
Please address your reply to this list or to
[email protected]
Best regards
Froilan
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:33:55 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Ready,Set,Go 7.0 ships for MAC ONLY!
Dear InfoMac
This announcement is from
Mac only since 1985!!!
Ready,Set,Go 7.0 ships for MAC ONLY!
Abbott Systems is now shipping Ready,Set,Go version7.0 - a major upgrade and
re-engineering of one of the original Mac DTP programs.
Abbott, who did major development work on this new version, is acting as a
distributor for Manhattan Graphics Corp.
Ready,Set,Go v7.0 now delivers professional "industrial strength" DTP. It is
positioned at the SOHO (small office/home office) market, with a street price
of $159. It is Powermac native and comes with a set of "real world" templates
to get any small business up and running fast!
Ready,Set,Go first shipped in Jan 1985 and has a devoted following due to its
legendary ease of use and object oriented approach to DTP.
It has always been MAC ONLY.
The new version 7.0 is available now direct from Abbott for $159 with FREE
shipping in the US.
To order call 1-800-552-9157, or Fax 914-747-9115, or email [email protected]
For more information on all our Mac products visit our Web site at:
Abbott Systems designs, develops and markets 9 Mac Utilities.
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:54:09 -0400
From: [email protected] (Eric Johnson)
Subject: SCSI Director and 7.5.3?
Hello Info-Mac readers,
Brief background: I work as a Systems Engineer in a flexographic prepress
company. We have several AppleShare servers, Novell NetWare servers and a
few Unix boxes doing specific tasks. Clients are Mac and Wintel (Macs in
the art department and mostly Compaq's in the administrative areas). Prior
to coming here I worked as an independent support provider for five years,
and I had five years prior to that in technical support for a forward
thinking reseller/dealer.
Recently we upgraded the OS on our PowerMac 6100 AppleShare server to 7.5.3
by way of the System Software 7.5 Update 2.0. We are now experiencing I/O
errors in Retrospect, Apple Internet Mail Server and NetPresenz. The latter
two apps run fine once AppleShare File Server completes its startup, but if
we try to launch either while AShare is still starting up, we get the I/O
error and the app won't launch. Prior to the upgrade, we could launch the
Mail Server and the FTP Server after AShare was launched while it was still
starting up (Startup items). Since the server is normally up and running
round the clock, it has only been an issue when the server goes down. We
wait for AShare to finish its startup, then we launch AIMS and NetPresenz.
The dreaded I/O errors are showing up in Retrospect now as well. Dantz says
that we shouldn't run Retrospect on the same machine as a mail server, so
until we come up with another solution, we've been quitting out of AIMS to
run Retrospect. We didn't have any trouble with Retrospect before, but now
it crashes and burns even after quitting everything but AppleShare.
We have 2 external drives (5 volumes) which use the SCSI Director 3.1 driver.
Has anyone else experienced difficulty with drives formatted with SCSI
Director 3.1 and MacOS 7.5.3 (SCSI Manager 4.3.x)? I'd be happy to provide
more detail by direct e-mail to anyone who thinks that they might be able
to help.
TIA
Eric Johnson
Digital Systems Engineer, FlexTec
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:50:39 -0600
From: Jesse Hall
Subject: Solution: Zip disks unreadable
Over the last few months, several people have said they've had problems
with their Zip drives deciding not to read a cartridge. The usual
symptom is that they get a "Disk is not readable by this Macintosh.
Initialize?" message when they insert the disk. The problem, at least
in my case, was that the pointer to the extents b-tree in the Master
Directory Block was bad. I'm not sure what that means, but Norton
Utilities does, and it also knows how to fix it. Here's what you do:
1) Start up with extensions off to disable the Iomega driver.
2) Insert the bad disk (it shouldn't show up on the desktop)
3) Start Norton Disk Doctor.
4) Under the Disks menu, there is an option called something like
"Search for missing disks." Choose it. This scans the SCSI bus for any
disks that aren't mounted. It should find your Zip disk, although it
will show a generic SCSI icon with a question mark in it.
5) Examine the disk. I recommend setting the preferences to do every
possible test, though for this problem the disk information test is the
most important.
NDD should find the problem and fix it. If you have it set to analyze
the files, it will ask you to load the driver, with a warning that if
it is corrupted it could crash your system. If the cause of your disks
problem was the same as mine (bad pointer), this should be safe as it
doesn't have anything to do with the driver.
I don't know if this problem is the cause of all the bad disks that
have been reported, but for those of you with bad disks, its worth a
try if you have NU. I hope it works for you.
If anyone from Symantec is reading this, thank you for saving my data
(not for the first time).
Jesse Hall
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:18:33 -0400
From: [email protected] (Marc Dionne)
Subject: Summary of Ram recommandation.
Thanks to everyone how answer to my question about RAM recommendation.
At this time, I have receive 17 answers to my question.
>Hi everybody,
>
>We plan to upgrade our computer's lab. Until now, we always buy Apple
>memory to go in our Macintosh. >At this time, we are thinking if it's
>still the best choice.
>
>We have to consider that your computer's lab is use 24 hours a day and 7
>days a week.
>
>We have to buy 40 SIMM of 8 Mo, so
>if we buy Apple SIMM it will cost $14 373 canadian including taxes, if we
>buy Kingston SIMM it will cost >$8 692 canadian including taxes and if we
>buy third party SIMM it will cost $3 180 canadian including >taxes.
>
>In your lab or organization wish king of memory did you use?
Everybody tell me that they have good experience with third party memory.
>Can we justify the price by a real better quality?
At this question, I have no positive answer.
>If we buy third part Memory and it goes well for the first year, does it
>have any chance that after 2 or 3 >year that this memory begin to broke?
On this question, I have two person who said me that, generally, if RAM
fails, it will do so soon.
Marc Dionne Email: [email protected]
Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires Fax: (819) 376-5153
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 96 21:33:11 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom"
Subject: System 7.5.3 R2 (C)
I spent some time yesterday snooping comp.sys.mac.system on usenet and
came across a bunch of references to System 7.5.3 revision 2. Say what?
Hadn't seen anything in MacLeak or Tidbits, and they're usually pretty
good at heads ups. Today's Tidbits had an extensive article on it, so
Adam wasn't too far behind usenet.
I snagged a copy of R2 yesterday, before the news broke so it was quick
and dirty to get into ftptoo.support.apple.com and download the two disk
images. From the second of its three "system software" folders. They seem
to have a disk management problem. But I digress.
I read the docs, and Adam Engst seems to agree with them that R2 is for
specific Mac models only. I also agree with one usenet contributor who
said he posts all Apple updates to all machines 'cause Apple has a long
history of putting generally useful bug fixes in otherwise specifically
targeted updates. So I applied R2 to my office Q650/PPC and my home IIci
and my secy's 7100. None of those was targeted. Each used "something" on
both R2 disks. Didn't seem to hurt anything.
Today I applied R2 to the office 7200's and my 5300cs. Both are targets
for the update. Neither used Disk 2 of the R2 update. Hmmm.
One of our grad stoonts wandered in as I was installing R2 and asked what
earthly good it did. I am brutally honest with our grad stoonts. I said
I hadn't the foggiest flipping notion. She left the room with possibly
even less regard for her professors than she had previously.
Granted, R2 is brand spanking new. But have any of y'all seen anything
positive from it? We haven't. 'Cept some of our staff got needed training
in Extensions Manager (Turn off all but 7.5.3, install, then turn on all
your goodies afterwards). I suppose that's valuable in itself.
Al Bloom
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:40:38 -0500
From: [email protected] (Rod Decker)
Subject: Telnet to a remote POP account?
Can anyone get me started in the right direction for accessing a remote POP
mail account via telnet? I've been told it can be done, and I have the NCSA
Telnet 2.6 application (1994 release date), but haven't the least idea how
to start. I need to do that now on an LCIII (7.1 using FreePPP connection
to local ISP) and after I move on a 7200/90 (7.5.3 rev. 2 on a WinNT
network over ethernet into a 56K leased line connection).
Thanks for any help.
Rod
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:51 -0700 (MDT)
From: "Daniel S. Bailey"
Subject: Using a PC Formatted SyQuest 270meg with a Mac
What do I have to do to use a PC formatted SyQuest 270 cartridge with a Mac?
I'm using system 7.5 and am able to read & write PC floppies, but it refuses
to recognize the SyQuest drive. It was my understanding that PC exchange
2.0 is supposed to read PC drives.
Thanks for any help
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:57:39 -0400
From: [email protected] (Andrew Shearer)
Subject: View Control Panel
> I've verified all the proper drivers for the HD, done everything I can think
> of, and the problem persists.
What drivers are you using? Maybe it's one that doesn't properly flush the
drive cache on newer drives at shutdown, causing data corruption (all
drivers I know of except Apple's suffered from this at some point).
Silverlining 5.6.3 and APS PowerTools 4.0.4 get it right.
> Problem 2: When I take the old drive out and put in my original 350mb hard
> drive, which I also know to be working I have few to no problems with 7.5.3,
> but the one thing that is driving me nuts is the Views control panel is not
> saving settings. It also defaults back to the initial settings, and I
> like having grid alignment and other things turned on.
Trash the Finder Preferences file, in the Preferences subfolder of the
System Folder.
--
Andrew Shearer
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:06:11 -0400
From: Pat Ellis
Subject: What is my RAM speed?
> From: hermit
> Subject: What is my RAM speed?
>
> I am trying to find the speed of my one 16MB simm
> which is in my desktop Performa 5300.
>
> As I understand it if you add RAM, I would like to
> add another 16MB, you have to have the same speed
> or faster.
[stuff deleted]
According to Apple's Specifications, the Performa 5300 ships with and utilizes
72 pin, 70ns SIMMS.
Pat Ellis
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:15:52 +0100
From: [email protected] (John Cundall)
Subject: Zip Drive on PowerBook 5300
Hi,
I've encountered a weird problem attaching Zip drives to a PowerBook
5300, whereby the drive appears at every SCSI address. When I insert the
disk I get 6 icons on the desktop. Whilst this may be a funky way of getting
600Mb out of a 100Mb disk, I'd rather it worked properly ! Anyone else seen
this ? The PowerBook is running System 7.5.3 (British) and the Iomega driver
is v4.3.
Cheers,
John Cundall
([email protected])
[Actually this is just a new version of the RAID system for Iomega drives
--Mike]
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