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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 2 Sep 96 Volume 14 : Issue 202
Today's Topics:
(Q) Font in menubar
(Q) Word 6.0.1a update missing a file?
[A] Hard drive space problem
[Q] BootP Program for Macs
[Q] GIF/JPEG Translators for ClarisWorks?
[Q] Putting strange accents in a Word doc
Accessing File Server Question
Ammon Skidmore/Terminator Strip?
Apple Visa Card A Goner!?
ARA crashes on second disconnect
Default paper tray and envelope tray
Expresso (3 msgs)
FreePPP 2.5v2
Hard Disk Catalog Problem
Hard drive space problem (3 msgs)
Help needed in running executable files
Help with a couple of minor annoyances?
Help with INIT and Extension owners
Image Maps (Q)
Info-Mac Digest V14 #200
Info-Mac Digest Volume 12 Issue 57
Internal SCSI ID jumper stumper
ISDN experiences needed..
LW8.4 and IIci (A)
Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
modem initialization string thing
Navigator 3.0 - Microsoft's secret weapon?
Open Transport 1.1
OS 7.1.1 Update?
Printing to a color Stylewriter (Q)
QuickMail & IM-digest dashes missing...
recommendation for LaserWriter version
Speech Recognition
SUMMARY: Startup Disk Order
The Info-Mac HyperDigest Experience!
Tool for having more than one system folder?
Underware 2.0 demise - more details
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:53:40 +0000
From: Peter Peldan
Subject: (Q) Font in menubar
Does anyone out there know how to change the font in the menubar?
The background to my question is that some special characters doesn't
show up correctly in the menubar in my performa 5200. However, in my
powerMac 7200/90 there's no problem. I have problems with e.g a and ~
(that is, a with a acute accent and the tilda). In my performa 5200,
these characters show up as a square, and this happens both in
applications as well as in the finder.
Peter
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Date: 01 Sep 96 15:35:40 EDT
From: Dan Castelhano
Subject: (Q) Word 6.0.1a update missing a file?
Dear digest readers,
I recently updated my version of word 6.0 to word 6.0.1a via the MS empowerment
pack. When I tried to run word 6.0.1a, I got a alert box that said: "The
appication 'Word 6.0.1a' could not be opened because 'MicrosoftDialogLib" could
not be found." I have reinstalled word 6.0 and then updated it to version
6.0.1a
to no avail.
If anyone has had a similar problem or has the "MicrosoftDialogLib" file, could
you please tell me how to overcome the problem, or tell me where I can find the
file, or email me it.
I am running word on a ppc performa 6115cd, with 16mb of ram.
Thanks in advance for all the help,
Dan Castelhano
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:51:39 -0400
From: "Robert E. Winston"
Subject: [A] Hard drive space problem
At 8:12 PM -0400 8/28/96, James Owens wrote:
> My PowerMac 7100/66 has a 250mb hard drive with about 8MB available unless
> I boot without extensions. Without extensions the drive has about 33MB
> available.
>
> My guess is that the Memory control panel is responsible for this since the
> difference is the value in the adjustable window of the Virtual Memory
> section.
> What I want is to have Virtual Memory on at the minimum value (1 megabyte)
The problem is that Apple VM uses a swap file on the drive that is equal to RAM
+ VM. So, if you have 24MB RAM plus you set VM to 1MB, 25MB of hard disk space
is consumed.
Two alternatives:
1) A bigger hard drive. Internal 1.2gig hard drives are going for about $250.
2) Use Ram Doubler. It allows PPC programs to load in segments, just like
Apple's VM, plus, it's faster and its swap file is only the size of VM, not VM
+ RAM.
Robert E. Winston [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:01:32 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling"
Subject: [Q] BootP Program for Macs
Another question. I'm the computer coordinator for a small private school
in Central New York, with a number of Macs on an Ethernet network, and I'm
getting tired of having to change IP numbers on every machine whenever we
change service providers (which admittedly has only happened once, but I
don't want to have to do it again).
Someone had suggested that we use Apple IP Gateway to dynamically assign
IP addresses to machines as they needed them, but either it won't work with
machines that are already on an Ethernet or we're reading the manual wrong.
My student assistant says that we should be looking for some sort of BootP
program for the Mac, and that he's looked, but couldn't find anything.
Can any of you point us in the right direction?
Thanks.
keg
* Keith E Gatling [email protected] *
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 04:37:36 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling"
Subject: [Q] GIF/JPEG Translators for ClarisWorks?
Are there any XTND translators out there that will allow me to *directly*
save a ClarisWorks file as a GIF or JPEG file?
Thanks!
keg
* Keith E Gatling * [email protected] * http://web.syr.edu/~kgatling *
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 18:47:13 +0000
From: [email protected] (T. Hodgson)
Subject: [Q] Putting strange accents in a Word doc
The usual story - I know I've seen this answered in the past, but now that
I need the info...
I'm helping a friend to prepare her dissertation for submission, using Word
5.1, and she needs to insert some unusual accents in the text. They are:
'o' with a small circle above
'c' with an acute accent
'u' with a short horizontal line above
'u' with a small u above (like the union symbol in set notation?)
Sorry I don't know the proper terms for any of these! The two 'u'
characters appear in transliterated Chinese of some kind, the 'c' in one of
the Balkan languages and the 'o' in Finnish - we think.
The main text is in 12pt Times, which of course doesn't contain any of the
above. Is there either a suitable shareware/freeware font or some ResEdit
cleverness that would solve the problem?
TIA for any suggestions.
Tim
Leicester UK
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:19:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (H. Perry Mixter)
Subject: Accessing File Server Question
I am using ARA 2.0 to connect to my company's Appletalk network from my Mac
at home. I can access the main file server (the one with the modem attached
to it), and look at all files on that machine, but I cannot access any
other mac on the network. I get a "Server is not responding. Try again
later" message. I can see the machines in the Chooser but get the above
message after double clicking on them - don't even get to the next dialog
box.
I _do_ have the "allow access to entire network" button checked in the
Remote Access CP, and file sharing is enabled on the other macs on the
network. (I know this because they can be accessed from other macs in the
office). I have tried to access both when the Macs are sleeping (disk
powered down) and when awake with no screen saver in use. Same results
either way.
What am I not doing or doing wrong here? Any advice appreciated. Technicals:
Home Mac: 6300CD, Sys 7.5.3, 16 MB ram
Server Mac: Centris 650, Sys 7.5.3, 16 MB ram
Other office macs include 2 PCI macs (8500/120), 7600, some Quadras and
Centrises. Cannot access any of them with current configuration.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Perry Mixter
Appalachian State University Office of Cultural Affairs
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:58:42 -0700
From: kee nethery
Subject: Ammon Skidmore/Terminator Strip?
> I was wondering the whereabouts of Ammon Skidmore, author of the
>fabulous Control Strip _Terminator Strip_. Formerly at ,
>that address as well as the one on his Web site seem to no longer be
>available.
>
> Ammon -- if you are listening -- I want to pay my shareware fee!
Ammon is doing volunteer work for a year in Australia and his father is the
acting Ammon until he gets back. You can reach his father at:
[email protected]
Kagi handles the payments for Terminator Strip so if you run the register
program that comes with terminator Strip and supply the information and
send the payment to Kagi, we'll process it.
Kee Nethery
Kagi
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Date: 31 Aug 96 07:07:10 EDT
From: Robert Warner
Subject: Apple Visa Card A Goner!?
Many of us use the Citibank Apple Visa card which accrues substantial
credits each year toward the purchase of Apple products.
Word from Citibank is that this card will be discontinued at the end of
year "because of lack of interest"!
The President of Citibank is Thomas W. Jones. His address is Office of
the President; Citibank; P.O. Box 6000; Sioux Falls, S.D. 57117.
This is/was one of the best deals in town for Mac Users. It would be a
shame to let it slip away.
Regards, Bob.
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:18:22 -0500
From: [email protected] (Barry Markovitz)
Subject: ARA crashes on second disconnect
I use ARA between my home (Centris 650) and office (PM 6100->80) Macs, with
client software (now 2.1) at home and server (2.1) at work (USR 28.8
Sportsers on both). The first connection is always flawless; transfer
files, out to the Internet, etc., and disconnection is smooth. However,
EVERY time I connect for the second time, ARA cannot seem disconnect
properly. It hangs with the dialog box: disconnecting, and I have to
force-quit to get out of it. Trying then to restart the machine results in
a freeze (after all other programs seem to quit OK), mandating hitting the
reset button. Quitting and restarting ARA doesn't help, and it doesn't
matter how I disconnect (button, Apple items menu) or whether ARA is "open"
or not.
This happened with ARA 2.01 and still happens with 2.1. I have tried
several USR CCL files, all to no avail. (And I cannot get further than a
dial tone using the USR Universal file that came with ARA 2.1 update anyway
- though it seems to work fine on the server machine!)
Anybody else experience this "second time is NOT a charm" phenomenon?
Searching sys.mac.comm, info-mac, and the TIL turned up nothing. Basically,
I have to restart the machine each time before connecting a second time in
one night to avoid this from happening.
TIA,
Barry Markovitz
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 15:30:29 -0500
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: Default paper tray and envelope tray
>I have a LaserWriter Pro 600 and two questions:
>
>(1) Where can I obtain the Postscript code that will switch the default
>tray to Multi-purpose?
>
>(2) I installed a new Envelope Feeder today. The PPD now says I have it,
>but neither my 5300 or 6100 can see the tray as available in the Print
>dialog box? Both are running Laserwriter 8.3.3. Is this a known bug?
(1) LaserWriter 8.4 solves this nicely, by letting you save settings as
defaults. Not sure about the 5300, but LW 8.4 works fine on my 6100.
(2) You may need to run Setup on the PPD from the Chooser.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected]) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page at:
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:22:48 -0400
From: "Peter J. Paul"
Subject: Expresso
> When I got my Mac Performa, one of the things installed was "Expresso". I
> try to get rid of it by trashing everything I found with that name, in fact
> "find" shows nothing with that title in the hard disk. Still the icon
> appears on the top menu next to the question mark for the Mac help. Why and
> how do I get rid of it.
Trash a file called Flashback in your Extensions folder.
>
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 02:59:56 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ian Burt)
Subject: Expresso
Hi Maccies
In Info Mac V14 #200 1/2:
>Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:43:13 -0400
>From: "Norman R. Friedman"
>Subject: Expresso
>
>When I got my Mac Performa, one of the things installed was "Expresso". I
>try to get rid of it by trashing everything I found with that name, in fact
>"find" shows nothing with that title in the hard disk. Still the icon
>appears on the top menu next to the question mark for the Mac help. Why and
>how do I get rid of it.
>Thanks in advance.
>[email protected]
In your Extensions folder, in the System Folder you will find a file called
FlashBack. Trash it and your troubles are over. I once used a demo of
Expresso and it took me a couple of reboots to rid myself of it, when I
found I preferred DoItAll, all the time. Still do. There is another
extension called Expresso Notifier in the same folder, but as it has the
title Expresso, I guess you found that one
O.K?
Ian Burt
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 17:29:13 -0400
From: [email protected] (Ed Mroz)
Subject: Expresso
I had this problem myself:
>From: "Norman R. Friedman"
>Subject: Expresso
>
>When I got my Mac Performa, one of the things installed was "Expresso". I
>try to get rid of it by trashing everything I found with that name, in fact
>"find" shows nothing with that title in the hard disk. Still the icon
>appears on the top menu next to the question mark for the Mac help. Why and
>how do I get rid of it.
>Thanks in advance.
>[email protected]
In addition to the Expresso application folder, and another Expresso folder
installed in the system folder, Expresso installs (at least) two
extensions. One is the "Expresso Notifier," the other is called "Screen
Posters". Try removing the "Screen Posters" extension, too, if you've
gotten rid of all the rest.
--Ed Mroz
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 23:00:40 -0700
From: [email protected] (Jim Tanner)
Subject: FreePPP 2.5v2
I recently downloaded FreePPP 2.5v2 from the Tidbits archive--to replace
FreePPP 1.0.5 on my LCIII (030, 8MB RAM, Ram Doubler). When I try to run
the installer, it checks my system, then, as it is supposedly installing
reference material, it hangs up, necessitating a "force quit." The
destination I've specified is my internal 160 MB hard drive, where the
system folder resides. I also have an external 1 GB drive, divided into 4
partitions.
Has anyone else had a problem with this? Any idea what's wrong?
Jim Tanner
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 11:44:44 +0200
From: John Steele
Subject: Hard Disk Catalog Problem
Friends,
After many attempt to fix this problem, I plead ignorance and throw
myself on the mercy of Info-Mac. I really don't know what to do next.
After several disk crashes (having to do with a Java-scripted mail order
music company whose initals are...) I ran Disk First Aid v. 7.2. It
gives me a rather convoluted error message. I don't know how to fix it,
and the DFA won't, after several runs. It doesnt say it won't fix it,
just runs the Repair for a microsecond and then stops.
I've pasted this in from DFA:
Checking disk =B3II ci=B2.
Checking disk volume.
Checking extent BTree.
Problem: Invalid BTree Header, 0, 0
Checking extent file.
Checking catalog BTree.
Checking catalog file.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Rechecking extent file.
Problem: Catalog file entry not found for extent, 3, 2
Problem: Catalog file entry not found for extent, 3, 2
Problem: Catalog file entry not found for extent, 3, 2
Problem: Catalog file entry not found for extent, 3, 5
Problem: Catalog file entry not found for extent, 3, 5
Checking volume info.
Checking for locked volume name.
Rechecking catalog file.
The volume =B3II ci=B2 needs to be repaired.
Obviously. I'd like to repair it, I just don't know what to do next. =
Any help would be appreciated.
John [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:47:28 -0500
From: [email protected] (Peter John Roberts)
Subject: Hard drive space problem
> My PowerMac 7100/66 has a 250mb hard drive with about 8MB available
> unless I boot without extensions. Without extensions the drive has about
> 33MB available.
>
> My guess is that the Memory control panel is responsible for this since
> the difference is the value in the adjustable window of the Virtual
> Memory section.
>
> What I want is to have Virtual Memory on at the minimum value (1
> megabyte) since conventional wisdom is that, in general, this model will
> perform better with Virtual Memory on. This would give me a total of
> 25MB: 24MB on SIMMs and 1MB virtual. The virtual memory section says the
> hard drive has 33MB available on disk and 24MB available built-in. The
> window with the arrow adjustment can be as low as 25M or as high as 33M.
>
> About This Macintosh claims: Built-in Memory 24,576K, Total Memory
> 25,920K and 25,920K used as RAM on Hard Drive (the name's been changed to
> protect the guilty).
>
> Either something is not right or I do not understand the Virtual Memory
> settings. The extensions I use are pretty much standard Apple with a few
> others thrown in. The non-Apple extensions have been on and off without
> affecting the hard drive available memory.
>
> Am I forced to turn off virtual memory?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> James Owens
Apple's scheme for virtual memory allocates a VM Storage file equal in size
to the total amount of memory, real+virtual, requested.
By contrast, RAM Doubler allocates bytes to its VM Storage file only has
needed, and their scheme is such that, for me, VM Storage most commonly is
allocated 0 (yes, zero!) bytes.
Hope this helps.
Pete Roberts
MacPartners Development [email protected]
(617)332-5082 (Voice) (617)965-7425 (Fax)
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 18:50:41 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Hard drive space problem
James:
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, James Owens wrote:
>My guess is that the Memory control panel is responsible for this since the
>difference is the value in the adjustable window of the Virtual Memory
>section.[...]
>Either something is not right or I do not understand the Virtual Memory
>settings.
Yes, Apple's Virtual Memory scheme maps your *entire* RAM onto your hard
drive -- that way there is a one-to-one correspondence between the RAM
memory and the virtual memory and there is no chance for software
confusion.
>My PowerMac 7100/66 has a 250mb hard drive with about 8MB available unless
>I boot without extensions. Without extensions the drive has about 33MB
>available.
Here is where you might be able to squeeze out some more performance. 250
MB with only 8 MB (or even 33 MB) free on your hard drive is *awfully*
full. If I remember correctly, virtual memory requires contiguous segments
of hard drive to be effective (I could be wrong). You might consider
putting some of your lesser used applications on a ZIP drive, compressing
unused files with StuffIt or Compact Pro, and weeding out all the unread
"ReadMe's" and other detritus from your hard drive. Then defragment your
drive with Norton Utilities' Speed Disk (or do a backup and complete
restore).
Do this and you might see a pickup in disk access times. Also, I
wouldn't be surprised if you have trouble printing occasionally -- print
drivers often write large temporary files to disk before printing. Maybe it
is time to invest in a second hard drive, even!
Meanwhile, I am a big fan of Connectix's RAM Doubler that picks up where
virtual memory leaves off -- well worth the $50 or so. That would help,
too.
Best of luck,
Clint MacDonald |
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 23:34:44 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Hard drive space problem
James Owens wrote:
>What I want is to have Virtual Memory on at the minimum value (1 megabyte)
>since conventional wisdom is that, in general, this model will perform
>better with Virtual Memory on. This would give me a total of 25MB: 24MB on
>SIMMs and 1MB virtual. The virtual memory section says the hard drive has
>33MB available on disk and 24MB available built-in. The window with the
>arrow adjustment can be as low as 25M or as high as 33M.
>
>About This Macintosh claims: Built-in Memory 24,576K, Total Memory 25,920K
>and 25,920K used as RAM on Hard Drive (the name's been changed to protect
>the guilty).
Yep, that's how Virtual Memory works on a Mac, it has to reserve an amount
of hard disk space equal to the desired "Total Memory" size. To get 25Mb
total memory you have to reserve 25Mb of hard disk space, regardless of how
much or how little physical RAM you have.
It's not a bug, it's a design trade-off. Reserving disk space equal to the
"total memory" size makes the Virtual Memory code easier to write, more
compact, and slightly faster.
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:18:43 -0600
From: Robert Zimmerman
Subject: Help needed in running executable files
>Whenever I double-click on a file with .sea extension my computer
>load the program FreeHand, so I could not run any other program.
>
>Its seem that the SEA extension is associate with the program FreeHand
>in my computer.
You must have Macintosh Easy Open (MEO) running (or a similar program).
This is causing an application substitution to occur. The braindead way to
fix this is to dump your Macintosh Easy Open preferences from your
preferences file.
Other programs with application substitution are Now Menus and Aladdin's
Desktop Makeover. In these programs, it is possible to delete specific
links (they come under Document Linking (Desktop Makeover) or Substitutions
(Now Menus) dialogs.
And to throw a question out to the InfoMac-ers is there a way to delete
just one link in MEO?
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 09:16:53 -0400
From: [email protected] (Howard M. Fried)
Subject: Help with a couple of minor annoyances?
I have two really minor annoyances with my Quadra 660AV but wondered if any
one had some ideas about their causes.
1. I pasted a custom icon on to the generic (boring) hard disk icon. The
custom icon was there for ages. All of a sudden now, on occasion, when I
boot up the icon is back to generic. Rebuilding the desktop doesn't
restore it, only copy/paste. The hard drive icon appears to be the only
icon with this reversion behavior.
2. I run Norton Disk Doctor about once a week. Almost always it reports
that some files/folders have bad modification dates, usually new files but
sometimes older ones as well. Norton cheerfully fixes them and, again, not
a serious problem, but could this be a harbinger of something worse?
TIA,
Howard Fried
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Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 17:30:22 +0000
From: [email protected] (Peter Grundy)
Subject: Help with INIT and Extension owners
In article ,
[email protected] (The Info-Mac Moderator wrote:
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:53:07 -0500
From: Paul Kleeberg
Subject: Help with INIT and Extension owners
:Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:53:07 -0500
:From: Paul Kleeberg
:Subject: Help with INIT and Extension owners
:
:After years of Macintosh use I think I am finally reaching senility. I
:used to know the purpose of all my INITs and I used to be able to identify
:their owners. Alas I can no longer to a few.
:
:Could someone please tell me the applications which require and the
purpose
:=
:of:
:
: =87TSM Fix 1.01 (That is "Omega"TSM Fix 1.01)
: ODBC SQL Server Setup (And several other ODBC extensions)
:
:to name just a couple. *Better still* Is there a searchable database on
:the net where these inits and their function are identified?
:
:Paul Kleeberg
:[email protected]
"The InformInit 1.1.1" by Dan Frakes.
You should be able to find it in all the
usual archives or at . It gives you all the
info you need.
You can download the latest version of The InformInit from:
Update summaries/revision histories can be found at:
The final chapter of The InformInit also lists its revision history.
Peter.
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:31:14 -0400
From: Jason Hecker
Subject: Image Maps (Q)
Can someone direct me to a program that will let you create clickable
_client-side_ image maps for GIF graphics? I have Claris Home Page, but
it seems to only create server-side image maps, and I don't want that
kind of a hassle. My ISP has several programs for Win 3.1 and 95, but
none for the Mac (they don't seem to have ANYTHING for the Mac). Thanks
in Advance. Please email directly to me. I will post results.
Jason Hecker
[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 10:54:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Scott Besman)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #200
>Is there a healthy FileMaker Pro list going out there? If not, if there is
>interest, I will start one after I get the ISDN project completed.
>
> Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
> 713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
Absolutely there is:
To: [email protected]
Subject: leave blank
body of message: subscribe FMPRO-L yourname
Very active list/group all different skill/experience levels...
Scott Besman
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 17:44:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (Grant Schampel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest Volume 12 Issue 57
Where can I get a copy, including the mail messages? There was a query
therein that I want to follow up; the list of subject headings in the
digest, but not the contents, was on AOL. TIA.
Grant Schampel
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Date: Sun, 01 Sep 96 23:19:17 EDT
From: Allan Hunter
Subject: Internal SCSI ID jumper stumper
Some kind soul (I think it might have been Al Bloom?) wrote in not too
long ago with information on how to configure internal SCSI devices
using those damned jumpers, and the directions assume that one's device
has a block with pins marked A0, A1, A2, TE, and FK. Most of the at-
tention is on pins A0-A2, which set the SCSI ID. TE is jumped if you
want the disk terminated, and for reasons the poster did not profess to
know, one is supposed to jump the FK pins at all times.
(For those of you who missed the original posting, SCSI 0 = A0/A1/A2
all open; SCSI 1 = A0 jumped; SCSI 2 = A1 jumped; SCSI 3 = A0/A1 both
jumped; SCSI 4 = A2 jumped; SCSI 5 = A0/A2 jumped; SCSI 6 = A1/A2
jumped.)
My own concern is with termination, though. I am staring at an old
Quantum and it has no TE (or FK, for that matter) pins; it has six
sets instead of five, and the three other than A0/A1/A2 are marked
WS, EP, and SS. I also have a newer (but still not entirely modern)
Quantum at work and I will have to look at its pins on Tuesday when
I go back to work. If it has TE I will be reasonably confident, but
if it is like this old one here I'm gonna have problems. SCSI being
what it is, I sure can't count on the machine politely refusing to
boot and mount disks if I guess and guess wrong and have both internal
drives terminated!
Anyone got a clue about these WS/EP/SS pins?
-Allan Hunter
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 11:53:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Scott Besman)
Subject: ISDN experiences needed..
>We are about to go with ISDN as a precursor to hooking up our operation to
>the Internet. My current number one candidate is a Farallon Netopia because
>I simply don't want to fuss with it. Your positive and negative
>experiences, URL references, etc. would be appreciated.
>
> Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
> 713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
I have just "acheived" ISDN with the Motorola BitSURFER Pro... My research
led me to that choice for a variety of reasons as follows:
1) TWO (2) POTS (plain old telephone system?) line access... I NEED to have
SIMULTANEOUS voice phone and fax modem access... case closed - nobody else
has two...
2) ISP providers and telcos are relatively familiar with this "adapter"...
My telco, NYNEX (NYC), actually sells it... Obviously, this means that
support will be fairly distributed amongst the various players required to
have ISDN function at it fullest potential...
3) Easy to configure... Well it is, despite having to go through the
included "Localmenu" terminal configuration program, I found the manual
setup guides to be the most readable and accurate I've yet experienced from
ANY provider of communications equipment... By the way, learning how to
directly configure the adapter (I am a power user, but NOT a digit head)
has given me some confidence that I will be able to take advantage of some
of the more esoteric capabilties such as callerID, 3 way calling, and call
waiting, all of which are supported.
4) GOOD support... There is a dedicated WWW page...
There is a cutesy service called "ISDN Lifeguard" which is available 7 days
a week (although, not 24hrs) which worked VERY WELL for me.
5) NOBODY I called (NYC) was familiar with Farralon's offering.
6) Motorola's adapter is "upgradeable" through software.
7) Apple supports ARA at ISDN speeds for this adapter! Now I just need to
get ISDN for my ARA server ($$$).
... and as an afterthought...
8) IT WORKS REAL GOOD!
My personal setup is a Performa 640CD DOS which does not have a high speed
serial port, so I am limited to "only" 57,600 bps access - twice as fast as
my 28.8 connection was... but access to my ISP is MUCH more reliable and
almost IMMEDIATE (10 seconds tops).
Scott Besman
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:22:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeffrey Berman
Subject: LW8.4 and IIci (A)
On Wed, 28 Aug 96, "Allan M. Bloom" wrote:
> Folk, a puzzlement that maybe y'all can help with.
>
> I snagged the new LaserWriter 8.4 driver (all five HD floppies worth)
> and installed it on my home IIci and my office Q650/PPC. I tend to let
> myself be the guinea pig before I foist new stuff on colleagues/spouse.
> Saves wear and tear on my body.
>
> I've seen no problems with the new driver on my office machine ('cept
> the multiple-screen PRINT dialog seems designed by MicroSoft), but it
> is for sure goofy on the IIci. Both run Sys 7.5.3r2. At home it looks
> like it prints, but something gets to the LaserWriter IIf at random.
> First time is usually not the charm. Second time is usually the charm.
>
> I'd been thinking I'd forgotten something or done something silly like
> pressing cancel instead of print. Old folks do that. Leslye noticed the
> same thing when she was on my machine (It's connected to the world. Hers
> isn't), so I started checking for oddities. If I choose good-ole-LW
> instead of LW8, no problem, mon. I suspect the 8.4 driver. I switch back
> to LW 8.3.3 and all is hunky dory again.
>
> This is depressing. Despite my experience, I still expect Apple to be
> backward compatible in its wonderful new toys. I suspect I did something
> terribly stupid and deserve to die. Y'all have any thoughts?
>
> Al Bloom
Al:
Don't die over this one. I have encountered the same problem with
LaserWriter 8.4 on a Power Macintosh 8500 (System 7.5.3 Revision 2) and on a
Quadra 700 (System 7.1). The first print job sometimes seems to get lost.
What appears to be happening is that the file is spooled but the
PrintMonitor is not activated. Manually launching the PrintMonitor
application (which should be in your Extensions folder) will complete the
print job. I've put an alias of the PrintMonitor in my Apple menu for just
these cases until Apple comes up with a fix.
-Jeff Berman
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 06:33:56 -0700
From: [email protected] (mike & zab)
Subject: Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
>I want to buy at least one good Mac resource book pitched at the
>sort of person who knows little about electronics or computing
>but is nontheless a pretty sophisticated Mac user (i.e. me). The
>ideal book should contain as much sort-out-your-own-disaster
>advice as possible. (God knows I've needed a lot of that in the
>past year or so and though I'd like to think that my troubles are
>over with an imminent change-over to a Power Mac 8200 I'm
>not holding my breath). The two possibilities that I know of are
>the Mac Bible and Hayden's Maclopedia. I gather that the latter
>is up to date with System 7.5.3 - but the publisher's data also
>says it (the book) can tell you who Steve Jobs is - which sounds
>a little Mac-for-dummiesish. Advice/comments on these - or
>any other - possibilities would be gratefully received.
>TIA -
>Fergus Lalor
Actually, my favorite one by far is "Mac Secrets". It seems to have the
most hardcore information a non-programmer could need.Highly recommended.
Michael S.
--
m.laveau records
po box 426737
sf ca 94142-6737
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:20:54 -0500
From: [email protected] (Rose Stasuk)
Subject: modem initialization string thing
Thanks to those of you who responded to my connection woes. Changing my
modem init to AT&F&Q0 in the ConfigPPP control panel for FreePPP 1.0.5 gets
me past the initialization phase now without the following nuisance:
Rose
>Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #198 [repeat request]
>
>on Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:03, [email protected] (Rose Stasuk)
>wrote:
>>snip>Now when I open a connection, as soon as dialing begins, I get
>>a warning message which comes up over the PPP status window
>>and states:
>> !There was a problem with the modem. You might try
>> turning the modem off then on again and clicking "Retry".
>>snipDate: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:33:02 -0900
>From: "N. Esteban"
>Subject: Open Transport 1.1
>
>I have Open Transport 1.08 and would like to use 1.1.1 b7, which tells
>me that I need OT 1.1 in order to install it. I understand 1.1.1 b7
>fixes the memory fragmentation problems that I've been experiencing on
>my 7200......help! I can't seem to find 1.1. I already have 1.1.1b7
>
>Thank You
Subject: OT 1.1.1b7 STATUS UPDATE
From: [email protected] (Richard V. Ford)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 03:51:12 -0800
We've received well over 100 emails now (many duplicates) and patterns
around the major issues with b7 are becoming clear. With b6, the feedback
was all-over-the-place. With b7 there are a few, consistant reports and
lots of duplicates that provide extra detail about the hot issues. There
are definitely items we need to address before GM.
We know it's challenging with so many parts of your Internet software from
Apple and 3rd parties under concurrent development (OT, OT/PPP, FreePPP,
AOL, NetScape)... We thank you for your dilligent efforts testing the
software and sending in the reports. (Especially the reports that were
complete enough to figure out what was going on... We did get some pretty
brief reports, but assume that some of you were frustrated by the b7
update. Brief reports like "b7 crashed my Mac, don't use it" that don't
provide system model, os version, other s/w, ot versons etc... -- are of
little help to us. That's why we provided the bug report form for you to
paste into your email and edit)
We are also getting some b7 is great email from folks who either figured
out the problems described below on their own or did not encounter
them... Perhaps they'll speak up soon on news. (Though I might be called
biased, b7 has been running like a champ on my office and home machines,
no problem, no trauma)
That said, so "What's the deal with b7???"
--
1. We got lots of reports from people who installed b7 and then crashed
after restarting. They were able to back down to b6, or to 1.1 without
difficulty.
It ended up that *lots* of you are also beta testing AOL 3.0 and there is
an incompatibility between the "AOL Link" module of the current AOL 3.0
beta, and OT 1.1.1b7. Remove AOL link, and the crashes on restart cease
to happen. So far almost everyone who had the crash-after-install problem
was also an AOL beta site.
We're in contact with AOL and think we'll have a fix in the next releases
of our respective software. b6 did not have the same conflict with AOL
link.
2. Lots of report regarding FreePPP 2.5v2 and unexpected disconnects.
After the unexpected disconnects happened 2-10 minutes into a PPP session
and subsequently apps would crash.
Our best thinking on this one so far (we're still pinpointing the cause in
more detail) is that the change described in the Read Me to the
"DoLapClose" routine of the MDEV Compatibility module -- that was intended
to provide 2 fixes (1) FreePPP can auto-connect the first time but not
following times (2) resolution for freezes at sleep or shutdown time after
opening and then closing a PPP session -- had the side effects of causing
the spurrious disconnects. We've since learned that the FreePPP Group
thinks (1) was a bug in FreePPP 2.5rf that was fixed in 2.5v2. Again,
we're working to reproduce and better understand the problem here... stay
tuned.
If you have problems with disconnects and FreePPP you have two options (1)
revert to an earlier OT release -- 1.1.1b6 or 1.1 (2) change to OT/PPP
which seems to not have this same problem.
There were a lot of reports of random crashes with applications, but for
folks not impacted by the above, they don't seem to happen...
3. We've received multiple reports that say that OT/PPP 1.0f1c6 works
much better with b7 than b6 and that the change in OT seems to have
resovled the problems of staying connected with OT/PPP.
We still believe some of the people who reported difficulty staying
connected with OT/PPP were suffering from the "echo timeouts" problem
documented in the OT/PPP Read Me, but apparently there was something else
as well going on. OT 1.1.1b7 did make several fixes to the OT Serial
STREAMS module and they seem to have had a positive effect for OT/PPP
users. OT/PPP uses this module, FreePPP & MacPPP do not.
4. We've received many reports that the install script does not work
correctly on PowerMac/Performa 52xx, 53xx, 62xx, 63xx systems where OT was
not previously installed. We did update the Read Me's install
instructions, but they did not reflect this bug that users found later.
In b7 we were also working on another installer problem which was that
after doing a custom remove of b6, you could not re-install b6 without
first installing 1.1... In making that change we seem to have introduced
the bug described above.
If you have a one of these CPU models you'll need to first install OT
1.1.1b6 and then update to b7.
All I can say here is that the OT installer is very complex. We're sorry
for the grief the bug caused. OT's installer is not as complex as the
System Update installer, but very complex none-the-less and we'll try to
not let this happen again... Much more complex than your average
install. Thanks for all your undertanding that this is beta software...
5. Don't use the Network Software Selector on Performa/PowerMac 52xx,
53xx, 62xx, 63xx machines running OT 1.1.1b6. It does incorrectly report
that OT can't be used on this machine even though OT is successfully
installed and loaded. The problem (fixed in b7) is that the installer
script did not update the list of machines that were OT-capable and so the
NSS was relying on out-of-date information.
If you run the NSS on one of these machines it reads the list of CPU's,
incorrectly thinks you can't run OT, makes a note in the AppleTalk Prefs
file and then presents you incorrect information.
The workaround should you get yourself in this situation is to:
1. Trash the AppleTalk Preferences file
2. Trash the NSS
3. Reboot
4. Don't re-install the NSS on b6. If you need to remove OT, use the
installer.
-Richard
Product Manager
Open Transport
Apple Computer
In article ,
[email protected] (Erik Schwiebert) wrote:
> Well, i'm one of the ones bitten by the OT1.1.1b7 disconnect/crash bug.
> I'd like to revert to OT1.1.1b6, but silly me deleted it without waiting a
> day or two to verify b7. SO, if any kind soul out there had an archive of
> 1.1.1b6, i';d appreciate hearing from you so i can set up an ftp of it or
> something.
>
> Please dont email the whole package to me, as my ISP chokes on 5-meg
messages!
>
> Thanks all -- Schwieb
To help folks in this situation, I've temporarily placed a copy of 1.1.1b6
in the unsupported folder on . seeding.apple.com
is a low-capacity ftp server, please be gentile with it. The most current
release, OT 1.1.1b7 is not posted there and should be retrieved from Apple
Software Updates sites.
-Richard
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 00:25:27 +0000
From: [email protected] (Daniel Frampton)
Subject: OS 7.1.1 Update?
Dear all,
Is there a 7.1.1 (7 Pro) update available via the internet?
All I can find is something called System Update 3.0.
I would like to try out Cyberdog for which I need OpenDoc for which I need
at least 7 Pro.
Can I cheat? Ie, is there an init I can install to kid OpenDoc into
thinking I have 7.1.1?
I have 7.1 (actually B1-7.1 it says) on a Duo 250, 4/200, + ram doubler.
TIA
Daniel
London, England.
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:47:08 -0400
From: "Michael E. Grabenstein"
Subject: Printing to a color Stylewriter (Q)
Question: I am trying to get our PCs as well as our Macs to print
to a new Color StyleWriter 2500. I have the StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter,
but can not find PC drivers anywhere. We have an NT server that could
spool the print jobs, but wouldn't it still need drivers?
Thanks,
Mike, [email protected]
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Date: 01 Sep 96 22:58:34 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: QuickMail & IM-digest dashes missing...
Subject QuickMail & IM-digest dashes missing... 1.9.96
22:53
Anyone seen this:
We have the latest version (3.5.1 I believe) of QuickMail (QM) with their I=
nternet software (which bridges the QM server to the internet). Ever =
since the Internet software was installed on the server my daily Info-Mac =
digests are being stripped of the dashes between each message within the =
digest. This, of course, renders Easy View useless and I have to go in =
manually and insert the dashes again (it's of course not so bad since I do =
a find/replace using "Date:" as my search string, but it's still a pain).
Anyone seen this before? CESoftware claims to know nothing while the =
moderators at Info-mac were equally at a loss to explain this anomaly.
Any leads as to what to check or how to solve this would be GREATLY =
appreciated. =
As a final note, I also receive the Info-Labview daily digests but these =
seem unaffected (they come through just fine). I'm wondering if it doesn'=
t have something to do with MIME encoding but this is really out of my =
realm.
Thanks MUCH in advance,
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:04:59 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ken Laskey)
Subject: recommendation for LaserWriter version
I am still running System 7.1 and IIsi at home and at the office. At the
office, I'm connected to network printers and am using LaserWriter version
7.1.2; at home I use a Personal Laserwriter LS and am not sure what driver
version. What are the recommended driver versions for these
configurations?
TIA,
Ken Laskey
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 10:06:19 +0100
From: "Goeran Haglund"
Subject: Speech Recognition
Does anyone know about a mac-application capable of recognizing
the voice, whereby text can be imput in a word processor using a
microphone, instead of using the keybord? I look for something
rather professional and not for a 10-words-toy. Since I need it
for the Italian language, the thing must be fully "trainable"
>From scratch. In case something like that exists, what hare the
hardware requirements, both "minimal" and "optimal" to make it
work?
(Please, if you can answer, mail it to the E-mail adress of a
friend of mine, because I will not be able to get the next
issues of Info-Mac at least until October. Thank you so much).
Pietro C.
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:42:55 -0700
From: Benjamin k Grossman
Subject: SUMMARY: Startup Disk Order
Thanks to all for the fabulous and quick replies!
Original Problem: booting from External HD even when Internal HD is set in
Startup Disk c.p.
Solution to my problem was to Zap PRAM.
Other suggestions (all good) were:
2. Bad SCSI cable
3. SCSI termination issues
4. Problems with SCSI #5 and new Macs
5. Damaged Finder preferences
=============================================================
Benjamin k Grossman
[ work: Network Administrator/Lake Washington School District
[ work: [email protected]
( home: [email protected]
" In the meantime, the best $500 network computer is still a used Mac."
-Geoff Duncan
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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 11:52:19 +0200
From: "Andre' van der Ham"
Subject: The Info-Mac HyperDigest Experience!
Dear Info-Mac readers,
For those of you reading the Info-Mac digest on the web, I have created
a new interface. The new interface uses the frames feature of the more
advanced browsers like Netscape Navigator 1.12 and newer.
The new interface gives you direct access to all issues of 1996. The new
interface has 3 dynamically updated frames and a menu bar. One frame
shows you the issues, another the table of contents and the third shows
the message you selected from the table of contents. I hope that the new
interface will be more responsive than the old and will increase your
reading pleasure. If you have any comments or suggestions, please don't
hesitate to e-mail me.
You can view the new HyperDigest interface at:
Enjoy!
Andre' van der Ham.
(Creator of the Digester).
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 96 22:13:47 0400
From: Ulf Dittmer
Subject: Tool for having more than one system folder?
Hi netters-
I'm looking for the extension that simplifies having more than one
system folder on a hard disk. I think it is called System Picker
or something similar and used to be available from the Apple
Software Archive, but I couldn't find it there anymore.
Does somebody know where it can be found now, or are there other
possibilities?
Many thanks in advance. Greetings,
Ulf
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:06:25 +0100 (BST)
From: Lloyd Wood
Subject: Underware 2.0 demise - more details
More details on the sadly-defunct Underware 2.0, whose demo (with
full-function engine) was uploaded as detailed in Info-Mac Digest V14 #198.
This comes from Stanley J. Silverman
There is currently one source left for Underware 2.0. MacConnection in
the US is selling it for US $5! (Their telephone number here is
800-800-1111.) They claim they're selling version 1, but I ordered a copy
from them 3 days ago, and what I received was indeed 2.0.
2.0 has a serious bug for users of System 7.5.2 or greater. The Desktop
Animation module causes the cursor to disappear. Bit Jugglers uploaded a
2.01 updater to America Online awhile ago; I don't know if the file is
still available online,
If anyone has that updater, can they forward a copy to me or to macgifts,
please?
Thanks,
L.
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:47:38 -0500
From: [email protected] (Peter John Roberts)
Subject: WaterMark program questions
> can anyone recommend a good program that will allow MS Word 6.1 users to
> add a watermark (ie Draft in big letters) anywhwere in a page.
Try the shareware LetterHeader extension found in the Info-Mac archives and
mirrors:
99040 Oct 30 1995 text/letter-header-154-cdev.hqx
Hope this helps.
Pete Roberts
MacPartners Development [email protected]
(617)332-5082 (Voice) (617)965-7425 (Fax)
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 22:02:43 -0400
From: [email protected] (Al Bloom)
Subject: ZMac'a "Now Startup Mgr" (C)
Folk, free can be too expensive.
I got ZMac's latest freebie (Now Startup Manager) this week. Much like my
mother's offer to drive her classic '66 Mustang when last we visited, if it
weren't for the honor, I'd rather walk.
I snagged NSM from home this past weekend, and it seemed to do sort-of OK
on my IIci. I admit to not having given NSM a workout before trying it on
my office Q650/PPC. NSM killed that puppy.
The folk from "Now" seem to have a rep for not testing their products before
release. And for being responsive afterwards, but who cares? I have not
volunteered to be a "Now" beta tester, and I see no reason to be an
involuntary one.
In a rare fit of reasonableness, I thought it a major hoot that NSM -- which
promises to be a big help in resolving init conflicts -- itself blew up when
launched on my Q650/PPC. Bus error. Yee haw!
I was less entertained when I found NSM to be less useful than Extensions
Manager in that circumstance. Gawd! The beast dosn't even have an "all on"
option? Seems a major oversight.
Thanks, ZMac and Now, but no thanks. Extensions Manager and Icon Wrap II
give me most of what you offer for considerably less. And they work on ALL
my machines.
Al Bloom, Virginia Tech
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 06:56:34 -0700
From: [email protected] (mike & zab)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:53:07 -0500
From: Paul Kleeberg
Subject: Help with INIT and Extension owners
"After years of Macintosh use I think I am finally reaching senility. I
used to know the purpose of all my INITs and I used to be able to identify
their owners. Alas I can no longer to a few.
Could someone please tell me the applications which require and the purpose =
of:
=87TSM Fix 1.01 (That is "Omega"TSM Fix 1.01)
ODBC SQL Server Setup (And several other ODBC extensions)
to name just a couple. *Better still* Is there a searchable database on
the net where these inits and their function are identified?"
Not to blatanly plug a web site, but the Macuser site has, for a very
limited time, the new version of Now Startup Manager for completely free
this month. It will not expire, and can be registered. This will give you
info on almost every extension, and helps manage fonts, plugins, conflicts,
etc. A very useful program. Snag it while you can.
Michael S.
--
m.laveau records
po box 426737
sf ca 94142-6737
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