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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 3 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 275
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#356/02-Dec-96
[A] Power Mac 7500 / PPP TCP/IP
[Q] Electronics Program for Mac?
[Q] Using Quicktime in a .pdf?
Corel Word Perfect 3.5 & rebuilding desktop problem
CPU Energy Saver won't go. (Summary)
Desktop Printing
Disallow Cookies?
Folders with Dates as names
GateKeeper
hp560/how many lpi ?
info-mac directory for old versions of softwareReply
LC & CD-ROM drives
Location of original Apple APD utility?
Netscape plug-in for application/octet-stream
Output Quicktime Movie To Tape
Powermac crashes--why?
seeking info/opinions on DOS compatibility card
Troubleshooting
using an AV1710 monitor w/centris 610 (q)
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:57:48 -0800
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#356/02-Dec-96
TidBITS#356/02-Dec-96
Are you an established or aspiring Web author? Be sure to read Tonya's
detailed review of Adobe PageMill 2.0! Also this week, Apple confesses to a
serious bug affecting some applications on 68K Macintoshes, Bare Bones
Software release BBEdit Lite for OpenDoc, and Adam explains how to get
"soft-power" Macs to restart after a power failure. And, if you don't have
time to read TidBITS each week, you can now have it read to you... on tape.
Topics:
MailBITS/02-Dec-96
TidBITS on Tape
The Power Key Mystery
Adobe Grinds Out PageMill 2.0
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-356.etx; 30K]
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 15:25:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: [A] Power Mac 7500 / PPP TCP/IP
(Context: "Sibbett F. Sapp" described problems with
ConfigPPP 2.1.4 and MacTCP J1-2.0.6 on a Powermac 7500)
Dear Sapp-san,
I thought the 7500 was a PCI mac and as such required Open Transport-
if you are trying to install "Classic" networking on a Mac that is
documented as requiring OT, I'd expect problems.
You can grab OT 1.1.1 from Apple, and install it; I'm using it and
OT/PPP 1.0 under 7.5.5 on my 7200 now, and it seems more stable than
my old system (I forget the versions now- there were so many! I
had been using the one Apple recommended for the 7200 before OT/PPP
1.0. I think it was FreePPP 2.5, but I'm not sure).
If that doesn't work you might consider a clean system install, since
it is possible that installing Classic Networking on the 7500 may have
munged something.
Good luck-
Ethan
_____________
Ethan Benatan [email protected] http://www.pitt.edu/~ethan
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:19:55 -0400
From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
Subject: [Q] Electronics Program for Mac?
I was wondering if anyone knew of any electronics program available for the
Mac. preferably freeware/shareware. I am looking for one that has
electronic parts you can use to design a circuit and test it etc. like one
i have at my school, but it runs on DOS (yuk) called electronics workbench.
TIA,
Andrew Murray
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 23:43:19 -0500
From: [email protected] (Aaron Vegh)
Subject: [Q] Using Quicktime in a .pdf?
Hello Macintosh masters,
I'm using Pagemaker 6.0 to create a .pdf file for use with Acrobat (duh!)
via the "Create Adobe PDF..." command under the File menu. That's not so
crazy; in fact, it's easy as pie.
However, one little problem has me flummoxed. The document I'm creating
will be read exclusively on a computer (not over the Internet, off a disk),
but it needs to have Quicktime movies in there as well. I know that Acrobat
Exchange allows this, but I don't want to drop the couple hundred bucks to
buy that one (especially given the much cheaper option of using DocMaker).
My question then is this: am I missing a function of Pagemaker's
PDF-creating powers in not being able to place a Quicktime movie? Please
someone, deliver me some good news!
Thanks in advance,
Aaron Vegh.
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:39:34 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Corel Word Perfect 3.5 & rebuilding desktop problem
At 11:33 AM -0500 11/27/96, Jon Butler wrote:
>...the desktop rebuild stops about mid-way...
>Any suggestions?
Some thing very similar happened to me recently.
You have a corrupted file somewhere on the disk.
When you rebuild the desktop, the MacOS looks at every file on the disk to
see if its "bundle" bit is checked. If it is, the MacOS looks into the
file to get the contents of a couple more resources [BNDL, FREF, and some
icons], which it uses to build the appropriate entries in the desktop
database. This information tells the Finder that, for instance, files of
type "TEXT" and creator "R*ch" are to be opened with BBEdit, and they
should carry this particular icon.
What's happening in your case is that the MacOS is proceeding without
trouble until it gets to some particular file. It opens that file, and one
of the resources it needs to read is corrupted in such a heinous way that
the desktop rebuild process hits a tree. Or, maybe the resource is
corrupted in a non-heinous way, and the desktop rebuild code just has lousy
error handling. Whatever.
What I did to fix it is the following. It was painful, but it worked.
First, remove any recently installed software and try rebuilding the
desktop. If that works, great. Reinstall the new software and try again.
If you experience no joy after trying that, then copy everything on the bad
disk to another disk.
Now, copy stuff back, one folder at a time, rebuilding the desktop after
every folder is copied. Eventually, you will add some folder and your
problem will resurface. Something in that folder is the culprit.
At that point, you can either chuck that whole application folder and
reinstall it, or you can repeat the exercise with each file within the
offending folder, if you *really need to know* which file is causing the
problem.
In all likelihood, the culprit file will be an application, control panel,
extension, or system file. It will most likely not be a document owned by
another app, as these files don't need to be internally accessed [as
discussed above] during a rebuild.
Hope this is of some help.
chazl
12.02.96
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:30:50 +0100
From: Tobias Kuipers
Subject: CPU Energy Saver won't go. (Summary)
Hi everyone,
Thanks for your reactions. I now know everything there is to know about Macs
and saving energy.
Apparently I wasn't the only one that was confused. Apple published an article
about it. You can find it in their Tech Info Library (or TIL) at:
(Thanks Benjamin!)
Hope this'll do you some good, cheers,
Tobias
--
URL: http://adam.wins.uva.nl/~kuipers/index.html
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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 22:30:29 +0000
From: Mark Stephansky
Subject: Desktop Printing
Hello All:
I recently installed the latest version of Apple's Desktop printing
software (version 2) on my PB 5300CS and immediately started getting
type 15 errors. Also desktop printer icons were being created by the
100s (really). I deleted about 800 desktop printer icons!
Anyone experience anything similar using this software, or have any
suggestions?
TIA
Mark Stephansky
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:03:12 -0600
From: "Steven M. Fish"
Subject: Disallow Cookies?
Has someone written (or is someone writing) a bit-o-code to automatically
disallow the writing of cookies for Macintosh? I know there are several
"kill the cookie file" programs out there. Thanks to everyone who wrote
them, but I would quickly pay reasonable shareware fees for a program that
completely refused to allow the writing of cookies without me having to
manually deny each cookie request. Something like a new Netscape
preference that said "Never allow cookies" would be ideal! I'd settle for
a hack that just automatically returned a "No" everytime Netscape pops up a
dialog box asking me if I want to allow one.
Thanks
Steven M. Fish ([email protected] http://www.jump.net/~newman)
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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 13:40:07 -0500
From: [email protected] (Craig T. Martin)
Subject: Folders with Dates as names
I have a PowerMac hooked up to a building-wide EtherTalk network, open for
password-protected file sharing (guest connections not allowed). For some
time now, empty folders mysteriously appear in the top directory (not
DeskTop) with names like:
Sat, Nov 30, 1996 12-29 AM
In other words, the folders' names are time and date stamped. The name
corresponds exactly with the creation and modification dates of the folder.
The folders are empty.
Anyone have a clue what is putting these folders on my drive?
Any good way to monitor to see who is putting these things here?
Craig Martin
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 15:13:53 -0500
From: [email protected] (Edward Ver Hoef)
Subject: GateKeeper
I have been using GateKeeper 1.3 for quite some time now. Recently I have
been getting a reminder every few days that my version is old and should be
updated by downloading a newer version. Thproblem is that the latest
version I can find in the Info-Mac archives appreas to be version 1.3. Does
anyone have any advice or words of wisdom?
Ed Ver Hoef
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:20:37 +0100
From: [email protected] (Paolo Bartoli)
Subject: hp560/how many lpi ?
Working with images (i.e. Photoshop), I have problems understanding the
relationship between digitizing resolution (dpi) and halftone frequency
(lpi) on the printer.
I read that the digitizing (or image) resolution should be 2 to2,5 times
greater than the halftone frequency. But where do I find halftone frequency
data?
I use an HP 560 C inkjet printer, and on the manual is stated only that the
resolution (which one?) is 300 dpi color and 600 dpi b/w. What about
halftone??
** Paolo Bartoli email: [email protected] **
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 96 02:47:45 +0000
From: Ian Burt
Subject: info-mac directory for old versions of softwareReply
In Info Mac V14 # 274, Matti Haveri wrote:
>There is an increasing number of apps that at some point have ceased to
>work on 68000 macs like Plus, SE, Portable, Classic and PB100. I guess that
>somewhere in near future similar things start to happen to other 68k macs
>and only PPC macs are actively supported.
>
>So I would like to suggest an info-mac directory that contains old versions
>that, unlike newer versions, still work on old macs. The directory could be
>named something like etc. (It could also include versions
>that work only on old Systems).
I agree wholeheartedly. My home 630 is feeling more insecure by the day.
Can we make an issue of this?
Ian Burt
[I agree -- in principle, this is a great idea, however, we are already so
pressed for time (our archivist) that I doubt much will come of this in the
near future. -Gordon]
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 21:57:35 -0600
From: [email protected] (Steve Waechter)
Subject: LC & CD-ROM drives
I have an original Mac LC (running System 7.5 with 10 meg ram). I'd like
to connect a CD-ROM drive to this system. What are my best options? Do I
need to consider any limitations (ie, the LC can only handle a certain
speed CD-ROM drive and no more, etc)? If I connect a CD-ROM drive to my
LC, will it handle the latest stuff on CD-ROM disks? Thanks for the info.
If you'll respond directly to me, I'll gladly forward the advice to anyone
else who might be interested. Thanks again.
Dr. Steve Waechter, Asst. Prof. of Religion ([email protected])
University of Mobile, Latin American Campus (office: 505-43-22314)
San Marcos, Carazo, Nicaragua
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:01:16 -0800
From: [email protected] (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)
Subject: Location of original Apple APD utility?
>Does anyone out there know where I can get the original Apple Personal
>Diagnostic Utility that is supposed to run on the 9500? I have gone to
>the various Apple FTP sites and all I can find is the APD updater utility
>(1.1.3), and you cannot run this without having the original. It does not
>make sense to me that Apple has removed this original which is needed by
>new 9500 users like myself, and it is something that is not included on
>the 9500 System CD.
>
>Please email me if you can help. Thanks!!
>
>--bj
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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 21:37:05 -0500
From: Jeff Frankel
Subject: Netscape plug-in for application/octet-stream
On November 29, John Steele wrote:
> Does anyone know of a plug-in for Netscape 3.0 that will read an
> attachment sent in application/octet-stream ? The attachment is
> text done on a PC. Even Netscape's plug-in page has no idea what to
> recommend.
I don't know about a plug-in for application/octet-stream, but what I
did was designate Stuffit Deluxe 4.0 as the helper application to open
this type of file. Not as elegant as a plug-in, but it seems to do the
trick. (To set helper applications, go to the Options menu, select
General Preferences, and click the Helpers tab in the General
Preferences screen.)
--
Jeff Frankel
Windsor, Maine USA
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Date: 02 Dec 96 17:30:23 EST
From: Dan Castelhano
Subject: Output Quicktime Movie To Tape
I believe you either need 4mb or vram, or you have to restart your computer
without the monitor connected, to output a quicktime movie to a tape. You
would
control the Mac either through the tv connected to the vcr, or the camcorder's
LCD.
Hope this helps,
Dan Castelhano
>I am trying to output a Quicktime movie to videotape in the last few >days but
with no success.
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 96 10:19:18 -0600
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: Powermac crashes--why?
>Help! My powermac 7200/120 keeps crashing on me! It's usually when I'm
>in Netscape Navagator 2.0. The error message says type #11. What does
>that mean??? I'm not sure, but it seems like it crashes more often
>when I'm browsing sites that have a lot of animation, moving GIF's and
>what not.
Netscape 2.0 was pretty buggy. Version 2.02 was a lot better, but I don't
think it's still available. Your best bet is to download 3.0, which is
the most stable version yet released--it almost never bombs on me.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected]) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page:
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:32:14 +0100
From: Ken Laskey
Subject: seeking info/opinions on DOS compatibility card
My wife is a college professor and is looking to replace her IIci. Her
problem is that many of the apps she needs to run require Windows and her
quandry is whether she needs to abandon the Mac for a Wintel machine.
First question: what are people's experiences with DOS compatibility
cards? The current Apple card has a 100MHz Pentium. How well does this
work and are there other third party cards that would be recommended? How
about cards with other than an Intel (e.g. a Cyrix) chip?
Second question: the current 7200 bundle with the DOS card is attractively
priced but I have expressed my reservations about purchasing the last 601
chip machine. My suggestion would be a 7600 or maybe a PowerBase 180, but
with a DOS card, these will cost an extra $1000. Any comments?
Third question: My wife has SoftWindows 95 running on a Powerbook 5300,
but some of her Windows apps won't install correctly. I haven't looked at
this, so I have no idea what the problems may be. But her lack of success
here is what is driving her toward a *real* Windows processor. Any
suggestions on installing apps under SoftWindows?
Thanks for your help,
Ken Laskey
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:08:11 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Troubleshooting
At 10:14 AM +0000 11/27/96, Bohannon, Kim wrote:
[description of problem deleted]
>...The only thing that changed between last week, when
>it worked just fine, and this week when it started crashing, is that I
>added that trackball. Any ideas?
Yes.
Now, I don't mean for this to sound shrill. My apologies if it does.
Generally speaking, if some problem occurs after you add some doohicky to
your system, the first thing to try is to remove the doohicky that
immediately preceded the onset of the problem. Especially if you can
localize the problem as specifically as Kim appears to be able to.
Given that this problem apparently appeared immediately after installing
the trackball [and, I assume, its associated software (mouseworks?)], the
first thing to try would be to remove the trackball and its associated
software. If you can't remove the trackball because you haven't a working
mouse, then just pull the software. The trackball should work fine without
it. I suspect your problem will go away.
If it doesn't, then apparently something else is the problem, and you can
go ahead to reinstalling Netscape and so on. However, if your problem does
go away, you've saved a lot of time and frustration.
For this reason, whenever you install new stuff on your Mac, you should
make notes of what you did and when it occurred, so if problems begin, you
have some way of backtracking to a working configuration without
reinstalling the whole nine yards.
Now, for my trademark extreme analogy:
If you buy a new pair of shoes, and immediately start to slip and fall on
your [unchanged] front steps, which is the more likely culprit? Your
steps, which didn't appear to be slippery yesterday, or the new shoes?
What's the best way to proceed? Reinstall a new set of steps, or go back
to your old shoes?
chazl
12.02.96
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:11:02 -0800
From: "David L. Hirschberg"
Subject: using an AV1710 monitor w/centris 610 (q)
Hello, I have an AV1710 monitor and I would like to find out which macs
have enough VRAM to run it. I called SOSApple and they did not have a
complete list.
I know that a IIsi will not. Does anyone know if a ci or a Centris 610
will run it. I need a beater mac to set up the monitor with a CD room for
kid games.
Thanks, David
[email protected]
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