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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 16 Jan 96 Volume 14 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
[*] ddSortPPC 0.0.0
[*] Stereo "Symphonic Beep"
[*] TidBITS#310/15-Jan-96
"Modem Lights" Software.
2 Macs; 1 Printer
[A] FoolProof and PowerMac
[A] HP Deskwriter Printing Garbage
[A] Pulldown Menus (2 msgs)
[A] Question re Linking Macs
[A] Small scanning program
[Q] Mac CD's on DOS Burner
Clearing the Clipboard
color stylewriter on a macSE
DeskWriter 540 !!!HELP PLEASE!!!
directory info into FTP (2 msgs)
DOS Card/Win95/MacShare? (2 msgs)
Driver Support for Canon BJ-200?
Eudora Probs with 5300c, 7.5.2 update & RAM Doubler
File Sharing pane not in Sharing Setup
Info-Mac Digest V14 #13
Info-Mac Index?
Looking For Files
Power supplies--all the same?
pulldown menus (3 msgs)
Quicken 5 problem (Q)
Redux Deluxe and Zip drives
Retrospect 3.0 freezes (2 msgs)
Retrospect freezes
Shutdown Crashes
System Updates (7.1 -> 7.1.1) (R)
Terminal Emulator
Word 5.1 File Conversions
Word 6.0 and Font Confusion
Xpress bugs
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:59:51 -0600
From: Philip Fleischer
Subject: [*] ddSortPPC 0.0.0
ddSortPPC is a small app for the PowerMac
which sorts records of a file into ascending
order based on a case sensitive compare of
the first 10 chars of each record. It
believes a record to be a sequence of bytes
terminated by a carriage return (0x0D).
ddSortPPC sorts in memory and overwrites the
input file with its output .
BEWARE: any file dragged to ddSortPPC will
be sorted and rewritten, even if it is an
app.
ddSortPPC has no UI--drag and drop only.
Memory can be a limitation. Temp Memory
(system) is used if enough is available.
A 68K version is possible but I don't have
one now.
Philip Fleischer (604) 483-4701
[Archived as /info-mac/app/dd-sort-00-ppc.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:59:48 -0600
From: Jeffrey Click / CLIXSOUNDS
Subject: [*] Stereo "Symphonic Beep"
Introducing the new "Symphonic Beep," a unique sound file that will leave
you wondering whether or not this actually is a digital creation or a
sample of a real symphonic instrument. This great new freeware beep is
>From the library of original sound creations at the CLIXSOUNDS WWW site
at http://www.edmondsun.com/clix/ .
This sound is a stereo file that utilizes two sound channels, making it a
very impressive, while short, sample. It pans very quickly from left, to
right, then back to the left. If you have a set of external speakers
that have good bass response, this is a sound to crank it up on! It is
available both in 8-bit/22kHz, and a crystal clear 16-bit, 44kHz.
This sound is easy to use as your system beep and includes instructions
for proper installation.
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/symphonic-beep-16bit.hqx; 484K]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/symphonic-beep-8bit.hqx; 178K]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:18:36 -0800
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#310/15-Jan-96
TidBITS#310/15-Jan-96
This week we bring you news from the Macworld Expo in San
Francisco, including an extensive overview of Web-related
products at the show, plus our annual superlatives collection of
the show's best and worst. Also, check out the latest on turmoil
at Apple, a complete system update for 5300-series PowerBooks,
and forthcoming Macintosh models. Finally, we sadly say goodbye
to Robert Hess, one of the Macintosh industry's best known and
most respected journalists.
Topics:
MailBITS/15-Jan-96
Goodbye Robert
Macworld SF 96 Superlatives
Light at the End of the Tunnel: Web and HTML at the Expo
Reviews/15-Jan-96
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-310.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:20:05 +1000
From: Tim Nicholls
Subject: "Modem Lights" Software.
I have an internal Apple personal Modem
I am looking for a sharware/freeware program, much in
the manner of "pppfloater", which will give me an
indication of my connection speed from modem to modem
rather than from my modem to my computer.
It would also help if the program included a set of
"Modem Lights" which would give Transfer/Receive lights
when appropriate.
Can anybody help?
Thanks
Tim Nicholls
Victoria, Australia
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 03:36:26 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: 2 Macs; 1 Printer
Greetings all Mac advocates, evangelists, &/or devotes,
I've already received some advice from the great gurus of Info-Mac. This post
is just to say that, unexpectedly, I'll be away from my beloved Macs for a
couple of weeks; I am being sent to the World of WinTel
. Well, orders isorders. At least it's very temporary--& I'll still be able to get my mail.
When I return, I'll busy myself with my Macs & your suggestions. Until then,
heaps of thanks to all who have offered advice & to all whose advice is yet
to come. I'll fill each of you in on the details when I return to my Macs. I
just didn't want you to think I hadn't received & appreciated your help. My
Mum always insisted on good manners.
Pity me among the PCs,
Toby Moore
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:15:09 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mark E. Ingram"
Subject: [A] FoolProof and PowerMac
I don't believe the following posting made it to you. If it did, I
aplolgize for the duplicate use of bandwidth.
MI
------------
[snip]
> [...] FoolProof is not PowerMac native, and I believe (I'm not sure)
> that it is pre-System 7.5.
> Any help in solving this problem would be appreciated, because our 5200s
> and possibly our 7500 are almost useless until this problem is fixed.
> These are our primary page layout and graphics computers, and are
> essential to publishing our newspaper.
Jesse,
This may not be an answer that you even care to hear about, but since we
have installed the 3.0.1 update of At Ease for Work Groups on a
45-computer school network - which includes LC 575's, 6100's, 5200's and
5300's - AEWG has worked quite well for us. Now that we are running
AppleShare 4.2 on the WGS 9150/80, moreover, the speed of the
Ethernet-based system is perfectly acceptable.
There still are important features missing from AEWG - like automatic
broadcasting of mass software and configuration files to client machines -
but we have at least heard *rumors* that Version 4.x eventually will
address many of these needs.
Mark E. Ingram
[email protected] | or | [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:19:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Basil
Subject: [A] HP Deskwriter Printing Garbage
Jack -
I've had a similar problem. It's always been because Appletalk was
turned on but I was using the HP Driver for a direct serial connection to
the HP printer, not the network HP driver. The garbage showing on the
printer was Appletalk chatter.
Good luck.
- Tom Basil, Annapolis, MD
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:35:17 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jack S. Yee)
Subject: Printer problems at startup
I have a Macintosh Centris 610 and since I've upgraded to System 7.5 every
time I turn on my computer my printer wants to print out half a page of
garbage.
I have an HP deskwriter and I have updated the driver software to the most
recent version.
If you can help please reply via my email address.
Thanks,
Jack
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:23:41 -0800
From: [email protected] (Maurice "Mike" McNeil)
Subject: [A] Pulldown Menus
> Does any one know if there is a method (cdev,app,init) which will
>hold the pull down menus -down- like Windows does, then release with
>another click?
Now Menus part of Now Utilities includes this capability along with lot's
of other extremely helpful features. Well worth the price!
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 03:20:43 +0000
From: [email protected] (Doug Brouwer)
Subject: [A] pulldown menus
*This message was sent using a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) SMTPGate*
Sharing Setup) probably best on
the 5300.
3) Select the HD to be shared, In the finder, Select File->Sharing and turn
on sharing.
4) On the other machine, use the chooser to select AppleShare and the name
of the other machine should appear in a list.
5) Use "Guest" to logon, unless you want to set up user accounts on both
machines.
There is a lot more detail in your user's manual, both machines should be
able to share disks (functionally included in Sys 7+).
I suspect that most "net" games are driven by the speed of the slowest
machine since all machines have to "time sync"...good luck.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 08:08:33 CST
From: [email protected]
Subject: [A] Small scanning program
Many other image programs can use PhotoShop plug-ins. Color It (commercial) and
NIH Image (freeware) are two of them. You could probably use NIH Image to do
the
scanning/faxing you now use PhotoShop for, with less overhead. I believe you
can
download the Image docs seaparately, so why not check into that. I do know that
I used a PhotoShop compatible plug-in with Image to digitize directly from my
QuickCam.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:22:16 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mark E. Ingram"
Subject: [Q] Mac CD's on DOS Burner
A colleague is using the DOS/Windoze version 1.02 of "Corel CD Creator"
(on an Intel platform) to create ISO-9660-format CD's that are *supposed*
to be usable on Macs as well. All data files for both platforms are
identical, but there needs to be one additional Mac-specific executable
included on the CD also: A version of the Aladdin Installer.
It would seem that in order for Mac resource forks to be accommodated,
Apple is using their own extension or subset of the ISO 9660
specification. Does any reader know if this is true?
In any case, this person has tried a number of strategies, but so far has
been unable to make the Mac Installer program run from a DOS-created CD.
Is there any way to make this work under these circumstances? (Of course,
a Bin/Hex file would be readable, but this would force any Mac user of the
product to already have both the tools and the knowledge to decode it -
something that is unacceptable in this case).
If there is no way to "burn" the CD master on the Intel and have it usable
on the Mac, this person will have to acquire the newly-available Mac
version of Corel CD Creator, and cobble up a SCSI connection to the
Intel's internal-mount HP CD writer. Surely there is an easier solution?
Mark E. Ingram
[email protected] | or | [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:42:34 EST
From: "Peter C.S. Adams 7-5263"
Subject: Clearing the Clipboard
[email protected] (Irwin Mortman) wrote:
> Does anyone know how to clear the system clipboard?
Yes. :->
I assume you're not needing to do this via a system call or in a
programming language, but just need to do it. Position the cursor
BETWEEN two letters in a text string (in a word processor or in the name
of an icon in the Finder) and COPY. This replaces the contents of the
clipboard with nothing, clearing it.
---
Peter C.S. Adams, co-owner. PageMaker mailing list
Vegetarian since 1980. Ask me why!
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:23:53 -0700
From: jacob reichbart
Subject: color stylewriter on a macSE
I've installed a serial color stylewriter on a macSE running 7.1 with printer
share. It's on a localtalk network with a 6100. the physical connection works
well but when trying to print a color file from the 6100 the print monitor
comes back with a message that color quickdraw isn't installed on the SE.
Is there a way of installing color quickdraw on the SE without changing the
ROM's?
B+W prints fine. any suggestions?
jacob
reichbart
westmount
[email protected] p r e s s
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:59:27 -0600
From: [email protected] (Mike & Wende Conwell)
Subject: DeskWriter 540 !!!HELP PLEASE!!!
I Know what you are going through, but don't really have an answer.
Perhaps you can use what I have learned though.
I have a DeskWriter 855C and have very similar problems. My Mac 8500/120
is connected to this printer with a serial cable.
First, the driver that came with the printer was out of date. The result
was that I couldn't print anything. So I called HP and they said that
there was a newer version of the driver that would solve all of my
problems.
Second, after d/l the new driver, my print jobs took a very long time, and
when I chose Background printing, it would print the first couple of pages
then hang, like yours. I called HP again. They said that this is an Apple
problem. So I called Apple. They didn't know what was going on, but
suggested that I d/l the Printer Fix for my computer, but said they weren't
sure if it would help.
Third, after I d/l the printer fix, installed it, reinstalled my HP
drivers, I could then print (in the foreground). The speed improved
remarkably. Background printing was no different. The system would print
a couple of pages and then seem to hang. I called HP, asking them if there
was any known problem with their Background Printer program or if there
were known conflicts between it and Ram Doubler. The tech said that the
Backgrounder was bug free and then said that the only cure was to add more
memory AND buy their AppleTalk kit. She said that my 16MB was not enough,
and the system was using Virtual Memory to process the job. AppleTalk was
faster than serial, so since the printer could get the data faster, the VM
wouldn't be a factor. I stated that I only was trying to print a 5 page,
all text report, and I couldn't believe that all of my 16MB was being used
by the data. She was sure that it was.
Solution: I noticed that everytime I booted my Mac AppleTalk was active.
I still haven't figured that out. I even went so far as to turn off
AppleTalk via the AppleTalk control panel, but it would activate itself
each boot. I find that I have to manually turn off AppleTalk using the
control strip in 7.5.2. Next I avoid background printing. HP's
implementation sucks, whether they admit it or not. So now I print in the
foreground only, appletalk off, with no problems at all. It would be nice
to be able to print in the background, but I am learning to live without
it.
Hope this helps.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:04:13 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: directory info into FTP
On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 20:04:45 -0800, [email protected] (Danny Skarka) wrote:
> At the end of each listing is something like this:
>
> [Archived as /info-mac/sci/name_of_file-demo.hqx; 391K]
>
> Has anyone invented a script or other fast way of getting this into Fetch
> or another FTP application (other then cut and paste)?
IcEtEe will allow you to command-click on a URL as a trigger to launch
Anarchie to go and get it, or launch Netscape to go look there. As you
read Info-Mac, you can just keep command-clicking to your heart's content
(eventually Anarchie will catch up!). It should be available on Info-Mac,
or if not, let me know and I'll try to find it for you from Peter Lewis's
or Quinn's sites in Australia.
Also, Easy View, a handy Info-Mac, TidBITS, and other digest viewer, comes
with some BBEdit Extensions which allow similar operations from the menu
(but I use IcEtEe *WITH* Easy View!).
Hope this helps. Cheers!
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:00:48 -0800
From: [email protected] (Florian Boyd)
Subject: directory info into FTP
>At the end of each listing is something like this:
>
>[Archived as /info-mac/sci/name_of_file-demo.hqx; 391K]
>
>Has anyone invented a script or other fast way of getting this into Fetch
>or another FTP application (other then cut and paste)?
Hi Danny-
Have you tried reading the digest with BBEdit and using the "Get URL"
extension to call Anarchie? Works good for me!
Here are the parts you'll need:
/info-mac/text/bbe/bbedit-lite-351.hqx
/info-mac/comm/tcp/get-url-13-bbedit.hqx
/info-mac/comm/tcp/anarchie-16.hqx
-Florian
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:43:21 -0700
From: [email protected] (Bruce Carter)
Subject: DOS Card/Win95/MacShare?
>I installed Windows 95 on my PowerMac 6100/66 DOS Card in order to run
>FileMaker Pro 3.0. Several of my FMP files are larger than can fit on a
>floppy. Under Windows 3.1, a DOS program called MacShare.exe would allow
>you to view a designated folder on your Mac hard drive as a drive in Windows.
>
>This allowed me to drop the files in that drive and then copy them to
>other media for backup or transfer to my client's site. MacShare does not
>appear to operate under Windows 95, so I seem to have lost this capability.
You just need to manually edit the config.sys file and add a LASTDRIVE
statement. I had this same problem, and adding LASTDRIVE=M solved it.
--
Bruce Carter, Boise State Univ., Boise, ID 83725 [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 14:51:45 -0500
From: R Shapiro
Subject: DOS Card/Win95/MacShare?
>I installed Windows 95 on my PowerMac 6100/66 DOS Card ...
>Under Windows 3.1, a DOS program called MacShare.exe would allow
>you to view a designated folder on your Mac hard drive as a drive in Windows.
>...MacShare does not appear to operate under Windows 95
Works fine for me on a 6100/66 Dos card running W95. Are you sure it
wasn't accidentally removed from autoexec.bat when you switched? The
other thing to check is your lastdrive setting (in config.sys). It has to
be at least as high as F:, otherwise there aren't any drives available to
share.
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:04:16 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: Driver Support for Canon BJ-200?
On Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:34:35 -0800, [email protected] (Michael Jones) wrote:
> Short and sweet: I recently upgraded from the DOS world to the Mac. I am
> attempting to connect my Canon BubbleJet (BJ-200) to the Power Mac -- the
> physical connection is easy enough, but software driver support is wanting.
> Canon USA's Web site is of little practical use, Canon Europe is OS/2 and
> Win 95 oriented, and Canon France was the only site with the abiliity to
> ask a question. The owner's manual contains addresses, but no phone
> numbers. (I could sell the thing quicker than getting a response, I'm
> sure...)
>
> Any options available out there re: contacting Canon and/or downloading a
> Mac driver for the BJ-200/BJ series?
Sorry, I'm not familiar with that model printer, but if it's analogous to
an Apple printer (most of their ink-jets are Canon), you might try the
appropriate driver. Example: BJ-70 = Color StyleWriter 2200.
The Mac and DOS versions of the same printer are not identical (the DOS
versions need lots of extra switches and winky-blinky lights, which Mac
versions don't require), but the drivers might work okay.
Good luck, and let us know if it works. Cheers!
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:01:45 -0600
From: Pete Resnick
Subject: Eudora Probs with 5300c, 7.5.2 update & RAM Doubler
On 1/15/96 at 12:26 PM, Paul Kleeberg wrote:
>Just upgraded my PB 5300c with the update for system 7.5.2.
>[...]
>The Update went fine and the machine seems to run faster, Netscape 2.0b5
>runs fine as does fetch, and telnet but as soon as I try and startup Eudora
>Pro I get the splash screen, the pendulum starts to swing and then the
>machine locks - no mouse control or anything. Removing RAM Doubler 1.6.1
>(my favorite program with which to have problems) is the only way I have
>found yet to get Eudora to run. Thought I should report it in case anyone
>else has encountered this. I have notified the folks at Qualcomm but the
>problem was news to them.
Steve Dorner (the lead engineer) doesn't normally read Info-Mac, but I
thought I would float some information. If this is the bug I think it is,
Steve was working on this problem when I spoke to him this morning and has
been working on a similar problem over the last few weeks. It appears to be
a bug in RAM Doubler with regard to asynchronous disk I/O. (Don't worry if
you don't know what that means.) In any event, what seems to fix the
problem (again, if this is the one I am thinking of) is to turn async disk
I/O off in Eudora. To do that, get the Esoteric Settings plugin from the
QUALCOMM FTP site:
Drop that in the same folder with Eudora and re-launch Eudora. (You'll
probably need to have RAM Doubler off while you do this.) If you then go
into the Settings dialog, you will see a choice called "Synchronicity".
Simply turn on the "Synchronous file I/O" checkbox and you should be set.
If that doesn't fix the problem, let me know. Steve is trying to come up
with a work-around to fix this without having to turn off async I/O, at
least until the Connetix folks fix it. However, rest assured this one will
be fixed quickly since Steve himself works on a 5300c and uses both the
7.5.2 update and RAM Doubler.
pr
--
Pete Resnick
QUALCOMM Incorporated
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:29:11 -0500
From: [email protected] (Christopher Ursich)
Subject: File Sharing pane not in Sharing Setup
Hello everyone.
I am working with a PowerMac 7200 (which has Open Transport). The machine
is set up on an ethernet network so that the user can access Appleshare
volumes from the Chooser and also run internet applications. This much is
working. The user would like to share files on his machine with others on
the network, however, in the Sharing Setup control panel, the File Sharing
pane does not appear. Only the name & password boxes and the Program
Linking pane appear. My suspicion is that the Mac is hiding the pane
because of something it notices about the network. Does anyone know why a
Mac would not display the File Sharing pane?
Thanks very much,
Christopher Ursich
[email protected]
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Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:06:18 -0400
From: "Mike Schechter"
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #13
>spread of 7500's, 9500's and even 5300's that we need, but I need
First of all,why buy ANY 9500's? buy 7500's and the clip-accelerators
that bring them up to 150mhz, faster than 9500's.
Unless you need special video needs, use 7500's, WIDE SCSI, and
clock accelerators for ultimate speed.
Are you sure you need a large file server? From your questions,
it sounds like you have experience in managing other than Mac projects.
For maximizing your investment (and productivity), Rethink your strategy
with towards Mac usage.
Do you actually need a large central server?
For what purpose? serving code source from a SCCS? Running applications?
For running applications, consider using license keyserving from
a server (a Plus will do dozens, a Mac II-hundreds)
instead of application serving.
> o Last server question: how good an option are Novell and NT
> Services for Macintosh?
until the 604 macs came out, I've heard that Netware was still
the best choice for Large servers for Macs. With 604's and
the new Appleshare, I've heard it's supposed to be a big improvement.
> o Is the PowerBook 5300 series fast enough to invest heavily in
> it, or should I hold off for a better chip that the 603e?
All indications I've heard are that it is terrible and it's better
to stay with the 540's.
> o Is a _pair_ of 14-inch monitors connected to one machine a
> good alternative to a single 17-inch monitor?
No, they are not, but a pair of multi-scan 15's is.
BTW, I'm coming from doing small team (1-4) development and
managing a 80-user mixed (Mac,Sun,Dos) network of end-users.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:23:50 -0500
From: [email protected] (Daniel Dallaire)
Subject: Info-Mac Index?
I realize the content changes every day but...
Can anyone tell me if there is any kind of database file of the index of
the Info-Mac archives, with the abstracts??
It would certainly be easier to sit back and look through a FMpro DB at
what pgms one might like to get, without burning on-line time!!
Thanks..Dan
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 13:19:06 CST
From: Mike Sisson
Subject: Looking For Files
I am trying to locate two applications to no avail using Archie, MacCatalog
Search, etc... If anyone has ArtValve or VM Eject please send me a copy or post
a URL that I can get to.
TIA
Mike Sisson: Finger my account for my PGP public key and other minutia
Internet: [email protected]
PGPrint: E3 65 66 0F 4E 99 3F E0 23 DB D8 23 0D 41 F8 EA
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:45:23 -0600
From: [email protected] (Paddy Atherton)
Subject: Power supplies--all the same?
I shepherd a small group of Macs, from a IIcx through Quadras to a couple
PPC 7100s.
I've just come up with an extra IIci power supply. Is the Aztec power
supply the *one* standard, interchangeable Mac part (now that we've got two
different floppy drives)? Can I slide the power supply into *any* desktop
Mac and reboot? Let's hear it from the mavens!
Paddy Atherton
Frostbite Falls, MN, USA
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:04:19 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: pulldown menus
On Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:00:36 -0700, [email protected] (joel southwick) wrote:
> Does any one know if there is a method (cdev,app,init) which will
> hold the pull down menus -down- like Windows does, then release with
> another click? I seem top remember one from somewhere in some distant
> place, (or was it a bad windoze dream). TIA
No dream. Connectix PowerBook Utilities (CPU) does what you want for
PowerBooks; its counterpart, Connectix Desktop Utilities (CDU) does it for
desktop units. I'd hate to use my Duo 230 without CPU!
Hope this helps. Cheers!
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:03:53 -0800
From: [email protected] (Florian Boyd)
Subject: pulldown menus
> Does any one know if there is a method (cdev,app,init) which will
>hold the pull down menus -down- like Windows does, then release with
>another click? I seem top remember one from somewhere in some distant
>place, (or was it a bad windoze dream). TIA
>joel southwick
Try StickyClick:
/info-mac/cfg/sticky-click-12.hqx
-Florian
--
Florian Boyd --- [email protected] --- //www.eskimo.com/~fboyd
"I'm all for progress. It's change I don't like."
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:14:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: pulldown menus
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:00:36 -0700
>From: [email protected] (joel southwick)
>Subject: pulldown menus
>
>Greetings everyone,
> Does any one know if there is a method (cdev,app,init) which will
>hold the pull down menus -down- like Windows does, then release with
>another click? I seem top remember one from somewhere in some distant
>place, (or was it a bad windoze dream). TIA
>joel southwick
I use StickyClick.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:11:58 -0500
From: [email protected] (Don't Panic!)
Subject: Quicken 5 problem (Q)
Dear Digest readers,
It appears that in my haste I have created two Quicken files, and now I'd
like to be able to import one older Quicken File into a new one. I tried
File:Import but the file doesn't appear in the folder I put it in.
How do I merge two Quicken Files, and make sure transactions are not
duplicated in the process? This is with version 5 disk version of Quicken.
Yes I know version 6 is available, but is too expensive for me to consider
now. An upgrade shouldn't cost nearly the same as buying it new.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:26:30 CST
From: Michael Cook
Subject: Redux Deluxe and Zip drives
I currently use Redux Deluxe to backup my harddrive to floppies.
I'm considering purchasing a Zip or EZ drive to make backups easier.
Will Redux Deluxe handle these drives? It is supposed to be able to
backup to any Finder mountable system. Do the Zip and EZ drives fall
into this category?
Alternatively, if someone knows the Inline Software company's e-mail or
web page address, I'll ask them directly.
Or, does Zip's backup software obviate the need for Redux Deluxe?
Thanks for information,
Michael Cook
[email protected]
These are not the opinions of my employer.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:05:44 -0800
From: Ken Workman
Subject: Retrospect 3.0 freezes
Small world! I've had the same problem and I believe I've solved it, at
least on my Mac Quadra 650. I looked for items that would activate some
time after keyboard inactivity and narrowed it down to two suspect items:
Norton Utilities for the MAC (NUM). This application has several options in
the File Saver portion that does "saves" periodically - I deactivated them.
Also, and I suspect this is the real source of my freeze, I find I have to
turn off After Dark 3.0d. I can't just place the cursor in the "Never
Sleep" corner. That way I still got freezes. I needed to turn off AD 3.0 in
the Control Panel. Since I've done this the freezes have stopped. I haven't
had a chance to check the File Saver deactivation. Anything that activates
periodically could be suspect, so check any other items that fulfil this
requirement.
>From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
>Subject: Retrospect 3.0 freezes
>
>On Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:03:01 -0500, [email protected] (Chris Brannon) wrote:
>>
>> Whenever I try to backup my hard drives onto an APS HyperTape drive with
>> Retrospect 3.0, my machine will freeze at some point during the process
>> (anywhere from 5-20 minutes into the backup).
>>
>> This behavior does *not* happen with extensions disabled.
>Oh, boy. I'm not the only one! Retrospect 3.0 crashes about 80% of the
>time when it backs up my SE/30 server, running 7.5.1 with a minimum number
>of extensions (since it's a server only). Often it gets as far as saying
>the backup completed successfully.
>
>I believe there's an elusive bug in Retrospect 3. I tried installing
>MacsBug and have made one log, but it doesn't appear to pinpoint the
>problem. I will attach it to a copy of this message and send it to Dantz
>tech support. I've always found them to be more than helpful in the past.
>
>Anyone else having related problems? Cheers!
>--
>Gib Henry
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Date: 16 Jan 96 12:59:04 ES
From: Andrew H Sherman/SCA
Subject: Retrospect 3.0 freezes
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:03:01 -0500
>From: [email protected] (Chris Brannon)
>Subject: Retrospect 3.0 freezes
>Whenever I try to backup my hard drives onto an APS HyperTape drive with
>Retrospect 3.0, my machine will freeze at some point during the process
>(anywhere from 5-20 minutes into the backup).
>This behavior does *not* happen with extensions disabled.
I've experienced this behavior as well, running 7.5.1 on a Quadra 700, backing
up to a Zip Drive. My solution also has been to restart with extensions off,
but that's pretty inconvenient.
/Andy Sherman
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:53:06 +0100
From: [email protected] (Jan Peelaerts)
Subject: Retrospect freezes
I use a Quadra 650 with PowerPC upgrade card from Apple and encountered
similar problems with Retrospect 2.1i as Steve Rothman and Gib Henry wrote
: the system freezes in the middle of a network backup. The freezing
occured more likely when the backup set was replaced (and the amount of
data was huge).
When I disabled most of my extensions, the backup worked always.
At this moment I think that the reason is the following : I had trashed the
extension "SCSI manager 4.3.1" from Apple, since there were some problems
with it, as I read.
But I have put it back into my extensions folders and now everything works
fine.
Read about it on the internet on Dantz new server, there are some technical
notes about SCSI-problems.
Greetings,
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:07:22 -0800
From: [email protected] (A.K.A. TheWiz)
Subject: Shutdown Crashes
>> ...whenever shutdown or restart is chosen from the finder, the Mac
>> displays a bomb box. It doesn't happen every time, but when it does
>> it's annoying, because I have to reach all the way around back to turn
>> the machine off.
>>
>> If it helps anyone, I use system 7.5.0 on a IIci. Also, the system does
>> not appear to be totally broken, because once when I clicked the "Reset"
>> button (in the bomb box), it asked for a disk and wouldn't shut down
>> until I put it in (grin
.>I would use a Utility to check the disk (e.g.: Apple's "Disk First Aid" or
>a commercial disk checker). You can even use Disinfectant. Since it looks
>into each file it will tell you when one file is so messed up that it can't
>see inside the file (and of course it *also* checks for viruses).
>
>I'd then re-install the system and then install the "System 7.5 Update 1.0"
>which will make your System 7.5.1. Of course the "System 7.5 Update 2.0"
>that will make the system 7.5.3 is supposed to be available some time this
>month.
>
>The System 7.5 update can be found in the following directory:
>
> System_7.5_Update_1.0/>
>
>Apple's Latest Disk First Aid can be found in the following directory:
>
>
>
>And the latest Disinfectant can be found at an Info-Mac site as follows:
>
> .../info-mac/vir/disinfectant-36.hqx
>
>
>As for asking for a disk, you can press the a time or
>two and it will give up asking for the disk. This is usually caused by
>someone changing something on the disk and ejecting it (not trashing it).
>
Yes ... the point being, there was a bomb box up at the time, and I
thought
it might indicate something about the problem that this could happen during a
crash. Thanks, though.
>The Mac wants to update the disk information (possibly the position of a
>window or the fact that the window was open or closed). There is no harm
>in not updating the disk. You just have to be persistent with the
> keys. This is most troublesome when a disk being asked
>for isn't yours and you don't know where it is (e.g. in a Lab situation).
>
I've already tried disk first aid & a clean install - DFA says
there's a problem it can't
fix (no error message) - I haven't used disinfectant, though.
Also, when I tried to install Stacker, it said there was a problem with the
disk, but I didn't
realize the two could be related.
So, if I've got disk trouble, how can I fix it? (Short of buying
a cartridge drive or
240 mb of floppies and doing a clean format)
I REALLY need help on this one!
Dan K.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:17:16 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: System Updates (7.1 -> 7.1.1) (R)
If you look in
you'll find "System 7 Tune-Up 1.1.1" which is what you need for the US
system software. If you're in Canada you may want to truncate the above URL
at "Updates"; you should get a page that allows you to choose between "US"
and "Rest of World".
If you don't have web access, try ftp'ing to ftp.support.apple.com or
ftp.apple.com
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:08:15 -0600
From: [email protected] (Mike & Wende Conwell)
Subject: Terminal Emulator
I need an IBM 3151 terminal emulation program so I can connect to my work's
IBM RS/6000. Any suggestions?
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:18:04 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: Word 5.1 File Conversions
I have never had much of a problem converting a document into or out of MS
Word 5.1. This includes my PowerPC running 7.5.1.
I recently purchased a PB 5300cs with 7.5.2 loaded. Running Word 5.1 on it
is not a problem until I want to convert a document to Wordperfect 5.1
format. The program begins the conversion, then aborts (sys
error-unimplemented trap). Converting Wordperfect ->MS Word, the program
begins the conversion, then aborts in differing amounts of severity,
depending on the converter used (wp 5.1, wp 5.x, wp 5).
The single converter I didn't have any problems with was the "text with
layout". That one worked fine both ways.
I would really appreciate any ideas as to what my problem is and what
recourse I may have.
Regards,
J. Bull
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:44:30 +1100
From: [email protected] (Alf van der Poorten)
Subject: Word 6.0 and Font Confusion
My fonts are utterly confused in Word 6.0 (yes, I know I should upgrade,
but, hey, I haven't). Going to the font menu in Word and selecting, say,
Helvetica arbitrarily yields Klang, or whatever. It says Klang in the Word
menu, and it klangs. Time seems to correspond to selecting Zapf Dingbats. I
realise that I'm running inits that Word 6.0 doesn't like; but which ones
are they? Surely this problem isn't unique just to my machine?
Of course I checked other word processors. WordPerfect and even MacWrite
Pro are perfectly happy and unconfused. So it's not just a trivial font
conflict.
Alf van der Poorten
ceNTRe for Number Theory Research
[email protected] http://www.mpce.mq.edu.au/~alf/
fax: +61 2 850 9502 voice: +61 2 850 9500 home: +61 2 416 6026
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:05:13 +0100
From: [email protected] (frederic thiant)
Subject: Xpress bugs
does anyone have a complete report of XPress bugs when running under system
7.5.2 on a PCI powerMac, thanks in advance
Frederic THIANT
Computer Bench
Tel : 49 58 11 00 (15 63)
Fax : 46 78 19 11
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:59:56 -0500
From: [email protected] (Floyd Harriott)
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 06:43:19 +0800
>From: [email protected] (Ariel Alampay)
>Subject: Creating Web Pages
>
>Does anyone know any shareware for creating web pages?
My favourite is HTML Web Weaver 2.5.3. It can be found at
/info-mac/text/html
The proof is in the pudding. My personal web page can be found at
http://www.netcore.ca/~odie
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