Info-Mac Digest V14 #35
Posted: February 7th, 1996, 6:00 am
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 7 Feb 96 Volume 14 : Issue 35
Today's Topics:
[*] c++advio: Advanced i/o & arithmetic compression classlib
[*] CDMatica 1.0
[*] Cindy's Newsmailer v1.0
[*] Cinematic Land 1.0
[*] descent_hack
[*] February issue of Mac Net Journal is out
[*] Giza v1.0.3 3D adventure game
[*] Glidel 2.7
[*] grayimage-21: _enhanced_ grayscale image processing classlib
[*] JumbleCatIcon
[*] KM's QuickTime plugin for Netscape, Version 0.2.0
[*] macnopoly - game
[*] MacSense February 1996
[*] mactk4.1b1 (Tcl/Tk scripting language interpreter)
[*] Mikey's Apple external HD Icon
[*] Mikey's MacBrickout Levels
[*] MyEyes 2.1.2
[*] RaceVIEW, Cub Scout Derby Manager
[*] Yet another...
(no subject)
[A] Help!!! (Extracting binaries)
[A] Internet Config
[A] Performa 630 drive won't show (2 msgs)
Annoying dialogue boxes
AppleScript strange behavior
Depersonalizing Software
Deskwriter C to a PC
HELP: Alphabetizing
ICeTEe (was: Internet Config)
Info-Mac Digest V14 #34
Internet Config
Keyboard layouts
LaserWriter Bridge?
Mac Netscape 2 font display problem
problem with icon of new formatted LC630 IDE disk using Drive setup
1.0.3.
Serial port missing
Sleep mode extend unit life?
Smart text-searching utility wanted
System 7.5.2 needed (Japanese -> English swap maybe?)
Unable to open SIT! files
Where can I
Word Eqn Editor question
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:06 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kiselyov Oleg)
Subject: [*] c++advio: Advanced i/o & arithmetic compression classlib
Attached is an updated version of c++advio, an advanced i/o &
arithmetic compression classlib, Mac distribution. Please replace an
old version
info-mac:/dev/lib/advanced-io-cpp.hqx
which you currently have. The most significant change is a 4-line
tweak with sharing of an i/o buffer (which became necessary as CW8 has
changed the way virtual classes are destroyed). The current
implementation hopefully gets rid of these specific dependencies for
good. All projects and the library are recompiled with CW8. For the
first time it became possible to use PowerPC alignment of structures
in the CW projects that use C++ streams (it crashed before).
c++advio: Various advanced i/o codings of streams of integers
Keywords: arithmetic coding, start-stop coding, endian i/o, compression
Hot points:
- variable-bit coding of sequences of integers
(including the Arithmetic compression)
- explicit endian specification in dealing with integer streams
- a trick of sharing a stream buffer (a "file") among several streams
- with a validation code to verify everything
- with a commented source and CW8 projects
Please see a README file for more details.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/advanced-io-cpp.hqx; 97K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:11 -0600
From: [email protected] (Otto Krauth)
Subject: [*] CDMatica 1.0
CDMatica is a powerful database tool for music CD collectors, Clubs D.J.,
radio stations, Music fans, etc. CDMatica lets you store all your CD's
titles and songs, permitting you to search by song name, composer, artist,
year of release, song durations and many more. The database is relational
so you could add any observations to your favorite CDs or songs. You can
easily keep track of all the work of soloists or song writers in your
collection. Generate song lists for recordings or to program musical events
with complete play time, sorting and total N# of songs
Some of the features
- Import and Export of data from other applications
- Customizable pop up menus to classify your CDs
- Programmable Play List.
- Catalogue printing
- Keywords searching
System Requirements
- 68K Macintosh or Power Mac (fat file)
- Hard Disk
- 2 Meg of RAM available
- 68020 or better
- 640 x 480 monitors (Color or monochrome)
[Archived as /info-mac/data/cd-matica.hqx; 1475K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:13 -0600
From: Cindy Carney
Subject: [*] Cindy's Newsmailer v1.0
Version 1.0c is out, and fixes the problem many Power Mac users were
having with the product. The problem occurred if there was an odd menu
at the top of your screen, such as an icon menu. This affected mainly
Power Mac owners, but the occasional PowerBook was affected, as well.
Cindy's Newsmailer v1.0c is an offline newsgroup and emailer with
many advanced features, including the following:
1. Sends and receives email and newsgroup messages at times you
specify, and allows you to read and compose offline.
2. Supports background downloading, so you can read and compose
messages while the software is transferring messages.
3. Resizable, colored, scrolling windows, and different color "quoted"
text. The colors are user-settable.
4. Automatic routing of incoming messages to different folders based
on content. This allows you to, say, send all mailing list
messages to one folder, and all "get rich quick" messages to
another!
5. Indefinite message retention. You can keep all messages forever, or
expire messages as desired.
6. Address book to store frequently used addresses.
7. Tagline capability to store your favorite signature lines.
8. Form letters feature allows you to write standardized messages that
have wildcards for certain information, such as logonid, name,
date, time, your name, etc. When you choose a form to send to a
user, it automatically fills in these wildcards with the
appropriate information. Use this feature to send standardized
information with a "custom-built" look.
9. Carbon copies, blind carbon copies, and "message received"
acknowledgements.
10. Can use either MacTCP for an Internet connection, or the Apple
Modem Tool with the comm toolbox to use a "shell" account.
11. Will run on Power Macs, and older machines with limited memory.
12. Includes a new "sound notification" facility which will notify
you when new mail comes in for certain folders.
Try it, you'll like it!
-- Cindy M. Carney, [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/cindys-newsmailer-10c-hc.hqx; 351K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:24:22 -0600
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Cinematic Land 1.0
Cinematic Land is a graphic simulation system of cinematic chains for
Macintosh and accelerated for PowerMacintosh. It resolves the position,
the speed and the acceleration of any point and any member. You can edit
closed or opened chains, using blocked and movable points. Standard tools
are available in a palette window to make easy editing. Every member or
point could have indipendent time evolution.
You control any cinematic size through an unlimited number of control
windows adjustable on your screen. More new features have to come in
next releases.
Some examples are bundled, like the model of a rod & crank in internal
combustion engines, the core mechanism of a textile machine, the principle
of motion-picture projectors.
Cinematic Land requires System 7.0 and Color Quickdraw. If your Macintosh
can't run Cinematic Land, please email me why.
This archive contains two applications:
Cinematic Land 68K 1.0: intended for low-end users (68000 to 68LC040).
Cinematic Land 1.0: fat binary for power users (68020 and FPU to PPC).
Help system is integrated with an AppleGuide, though coaching isn't even
available, because lack of coming AppleScript features in Cinematic Land.
Cinematic Land is a shareware software of 15$ fee and you could reach
its author at [email protected].
I suggest to put this file into /sci directory.
Ciao
Marco
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/cinematic-land-10.hqx; 418K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:48 -0600
From: das
Subject: [*] descent_hack
its a small patch so that you dont have to have you can copy descent to
your HD and not have to have the cd in every time that you want to play.
das
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/descent-hack.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:00 -0600
From: [email protected] (Rob & Natalie McNair-Huff)
Subject: [*] February issue of Mac Net Journal is out
Hello to all,
The latest issue of Mac Net Journal is out and on the Net. Written in
down to Earth language, MNJ reviews shareware, gives personal articles on
Macintosh-related topics, and how-to sessions to help people get the most
out of their Macs while on the Internet. In this issue: Mac Net Journal
switches editors, we serve up a dish of hot PowerBook humor, we look back
at MacWorld Expo and this month's SpiderWeb column looks ahead to what
will happen to the Net in '96. We also throw in a dose of shareware game
reviews.
MNJ has been around for nearly a year and a half and is available in
two formats: a downloadable multimedia file via FTP or via the World Wide
Web.
For the Web:
http://www.blol.com/web_mnj/
For downloading:
ftp://amug.org/info-mac/per/_MacNet/
Subscriptions are still available and very, very free - simply email us
at [email protected].
Businesses interested in advertising in this new media, please contact
us at [email protected] - we do static and multimedia ads.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/mnet/mac-net-journal-96-02.hqx; 471K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:47:08 -0600
From: [email protected] (Bob Mancarella)
Subject: [*] Giza v1.0.3 3D adventure game
Giza is a 3D, first person perspective, fully texture mapped adventure game
for the Mac.
You are a scientist who has discovered that the great pyramids of Egypt
will soon be destroyed. The secrets that can save them lie within the
pyramids themselves. You must try to collect all the information you need
without getting yourself killed.
Giza is full of secrets, gold and dangers. There are tricks, traps and evil
inhabitants in the pyramid that will try to stop you. There is also a
special ring, transporters, secret passageways and magic potions that can
help you. 25 levels of mystery and adventure.
Giza also comes with an editor that lets you create your own pyramid
levels! Challenge your friends with levels you created or upload them for
others to try. The editor is so easy to use that anyone can create great
levels in minutes.
Version 1.0.3 changes.
1) Changed required memory to 4100k.
2) 68k machines can now go past level 8.
3) Added no-fade code.
4) The system's date format is now reset correctly.
Accelerated for PowerMac.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/giza-103.hqx; 1992K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/giza-103-updt.hqx; 65K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:05 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gilles Berkovitch)
Subject: [*] Glidel 2.7
Glidel est une extension qui sert, a partir de la selection du Finder, =
=E0 :
- declencher les actions correspondants aux articles du menu Fichier,
- ouvrir des documents par des applications ne les ayant pas crees,
- mouvoir ou copier la selection,
- creer des alias de la selection.
Nouveautes de la version 2.7 :
- Glidel tient compte du nouvel article du menu fichier que revele
l'extension du systeme "Finder Alias Extensions
Enabler",
- Glidel marche aussi avec les sous-menus des vieilles versions de
PopupFolder (merci Dana Nau).
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-27-fr.hqx; 35K]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-27.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:09 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kiselyov Oleg)
Subject: [*] grayimage-21: _enhanced_ grayscale image processing classlib
The new release of the code has a few minor memory allocation tweaks:
it matters actually only for CW, where delete and free() do differ,
even for primitive types. The most significant change is that all
projects and the library are recompiled with CW8. Projects'
preferences are now changed to include PowerPC alignment: it wasn't
safe to do before if the code used C++ streams. The old submission had
CW6 projects and library, which are clearly obsolete (and must be
recompiled/converted to work with the latest CW). That'll warrant
resubmission, I figured.
What: grayscale image processing class library and verification code
Keywords: image arithmetics, image filtration, lazy image, C++, class library
Hot points:
- all standard algebra/arithmetics on an image/image slices
- LazyImages, and PixelAction iterators for fast sweeping actions
- very *fast* convolutions, median filtration, and look-up
table substitutions
- morphological filtration
- assigning an image of _really_ any size to another image _to fit_
- Fractal clouds generator (as an example of a Lazy Image)
- reading/writing XWD/PGM/grayscale_TIFF files with automatic
input file format recognition
- with a validation code to verify everything
- with a commented source and CW8 projects
A README file gives more details.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/gray-image-21-cpp.hqx; 442K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:12 -0600
From: Keith Cooper (Keith Cooper)
Subject: [*] JumbleCatIcon
Hello there
As the name says, this is an icon of a cat called Jumble.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/jumble-cat-icon.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:16 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kevin McMurtrie)
Subject: [*] KM's QuickTime plugin for Netscape, Version 0.2.0
A fat binary multimedia plug-in for Netscape. Version 0.2.0 (2/5/95)
This is a multimedia Plug-in for Netscape 2.06a. Web surfers can
use this
to watch movies and listen to music right from Netscape. This plug-in
offers HTML authors the ability to play background music, stretch movies,
present slide shows, and use continuously looping animations. The plug-in
should be placed in Netscape's "Plug-ins" folder.
Supported media:
QuickTime, MPEG, Midi, Windows WAVE, Sun =B5Law, AIFF, and Mac PICT.
Improvements since 0.1.0 (1/31/95):
* Lots of seemingly harmless bugs fixed.
* Importing of many media types.
* The default settings will not change the aspect ratio of
shrink-to-fit images.
* Movies will continue where left off when web pages are left and
revisited, memory permitting.
* Printing works.
* Plain controllers on soundtracks are centered.
* Zero-area destination boxes are safe.
=46ree, Pascal source code included.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/web/kms-qt-netscape-plug-02.hqx; 57K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:39 -0600
From: [email protected] (Chad Kluck)
Subject: [*] macnopoly - game
This HyperCard stack is much like the original board game. There is an
added bonus for sending the shareware fee. Requires HyperCard 2.0 or
later.
Chad Kluck [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/macnopoly-11-hc.hqx; 218K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:05:33 -0600
From: Alex Narvey
Subject: [*] MacSense February 1996
MacSense February 1996. Volume 3, Issue 1.
Got the February blahs? We've got a cure! Download our second anniversary
issue and get the inside scoop on System Update 2.0=E3due any minute!
=46ebruary's issue also brings news of Apple's troubled times, rumors of a
possible merger and big change in management.
Browse through February's MacSense and learn how to keep your home pages
clean, neat and unburdening. Let John Nemerovski tell you about the last
altruist. Learn about the cool new feature set of System Update 2.0, and
read about Brian Fort=C8's day with Open Transport 1.1. Smirk at the inanity
unveiled in five new Tech Support Tales. Name your ImageWriters. Get
psyched with our net net column, Cerebrealilty. Take in a review of
PageMill, SoftWindows, Paperport Vx or Rebel Assault II. On the heels of
his new book, The Game Warden brings you the news and notes from Macworld
Expo. Jim Hines muses about the quality of printed material. And, finally,
Editor-in-Chief Chris McVeigh quells fears that the end is near.
MacSense: The Macintosh=C6 E-Zine is a FREE monthly electronic magazine whic=
h
focuses on the mainstream Macintosh computer market. Each issue of MacSense
details the most significant news stories in the world of Macintosh
computing and explores how these new developments will affect every-day Mac
users. Packed with vibrant color graphics and in depth product reviews, it
is the founding goal of MacSense to shed light on a rapidly evolving
industry. Moreover, because MacSense is created and distributed
electronically, it is the most environmentally friendly method of
publishing. We hope you enjoy this issue!
The attached file is a Stuffit archive. You will need Stuffit Expander or
another Stuffit compression utility to extract it.
The color edition of MacSense requires a Macintosh with at least 16 shades
of grey. For optimal viewing, we recommend 16-bit color. The black and
white edition of MacSense can be viewed on any Macintosh.
NEWS: Apple management plays musical chairs, Apple falls to #3, Apple/Sun
merger rumours abound, and more!
APPLEBITS: New disks sets for PowerBook 5300s, 190s, 2300s and
LaserWriters...and more!
QUICKBITS: Netscape Navigator 2.0 released, Filemaker Pro 3.0 debuts...and m=
ore!
EDITORIAL: Chris McVeigh muses about the future of Apple.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: High praise for HotBits, Large and loving it!,
Salute to War Gamings and more!
BRAVE NEW WORLD: The Last Altruist.
=46EATURE: Getting Started with HTML, Part II. Oliver Dueck helps you keep
your home page clean and neat.
=46EATURE: System 7.5 Update 2.0: A Preview. Brian Fort=C8 gets the good stu=
ff
on Update 2.0, and takes you for a walk with OT 1.1.
MACADEMIA: Mac for Faculty Desktops. Which Mac is right for the educator?
CEREBREALITY: NEW COLUMN! Greg Kramer waxes poetic about the benefits of
the Internet.
ABOUT THIS MACINTOSH: Generic Icons, Naming ImageWriters, PowerBook display
and Macintosh AV Options
TECH SUPPORT TALES: "Fax Facts," "Digital Expectations," The All-in-One
Model," and more!
SOFTWARE REVIEWS: PageMill, SoftWindows, Act 2.5, Studio Pro 1.5.2 and
Vision 3d 4.0, CD-ROM Toolkit, MacEKG!
HARDWARE REVIEWS: DeskJet 850c, Paperport Vx, IRISPen, and FotoFUN!
GAME REVIEWS: Rebel Assault II, X-Wing
THE GAME WARDEN: Macworld Expo '96: News and Notes!
BLUE SUNSHINE: All the news that's fit to print...
You can find the latest issue of MacSense (and back issues) at the
following locations:
eWorld and CompuServe: Within the ZiffNet/Mac areas, path: Software
Center/Software Central/Electronic Publications/Additional Publications.
America Online: The Macintosh Computer Hardware File Library. Keyword:
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=46ile Library, keyword: 'MMW'; in the 'New Uploads' folder.
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views and reviews and a complete library of our issues, set your sites to
http://www.macsense.com/macsense/
Internet FTP site: The Periodicals folder of the Info-Mac archives at
Stanford University, internet address: sumex-aim.stanford.edu, path:
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Please e-mail us if you have questions, comments, suggestions,
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eWorld: MacSense Ed.
Subject: (no subject)
Dear Sir,
Where do I get Apple Events? ULAW 1.4 says I need it plus System 7.
Please let me know. Thanks!!!
e-yours,
Bill
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:46:07 -0800
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [A] Help!!! (Extracting binaries)
[email protected] wrote:
>Could someone help me? I have a Mac, and I'm confused....
>I am trying to view pictures in the alt.binaries.pictures newsgroup, but
>when I bring up a listing, all I get is gibberish. Apparently it's some...
Dear bgb:
I assume that you are using Newswatcher 2.0 (the latest version).
You should read the Newswatcher manual, it is explained well there.
Here are a few pointers. You need to set in the Newswatcher preferences
the application to decode the files. Go to Preferences, select
extracting Binaries
and then set the decoding program. You can use UULite or UUuncode but
I like
uuUndo myself: it is freeware and works very well. Select this program
in the 'uudecode helper program' box.
When you open a message that has been uuencoded, you will get a little
window
with the title and a small bow with 0's and 1's. Click on it os select
extract
binaries. The file should be decoded when the download is complete.
You can select
uuUndo to automatically delete the encoded files. To view the
pictutes, get something
like JPEG View or JADE and open the decoded files.
As far as I know, Newswatcher can not auto decode base-64 encoded files
(another type of
encoding, more rarely used). If you open a file and get a big text
file that looks like
gibberish, save it, then use something like YA-Base64 1.1.0 to decode
it.
Write back if you need more help.
Romul Romero
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 22:44:36 -0800
From: [email protected] (Darrell Greenwood)
Subject: [A] Internet Config
On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:12:14 -0600 From: [email protected] wrote;
> Kaysen) Subject: [A] Internet Config
> The example address you gave isn't a *complete* url because it
> doesn't include the machine name.
Agreed.
> And this is on purpose--it allows
> Info-Mac readers from all over to use the handiest Info-Mac mirror.
> Here's how you choose yours:
>
> Open Internet Config, click on the "File Transfer" panel, and then
> select the default Info-Mac server machine name from the second
> pop-up menu. Choose one that's relatively near your home (A few
> hundred miles from you, I use UIowa).
>
> While you're at it, click on the "helpers" panel and make sure that
> the "ftp" helper is assigned (I use Anarchie).
>
> Save these changes, then try the "click on the address" trick again.
I did this.
> This time Internet Config puts together the machine name you've
> chosen with the partial URL, creating (in the case of UIowa)
>
>
ftp://grind.isca.uiowa.edu/mac/infomac/ ... -patch.hqx
> then passes the whole string to your ftp helper, which will then
> attempt to connect to the server to get the file.
Nope. Got the "....not by ICeTEe definition..." dialog.
I find this frustrating because this the second time I have checked
Internet Configuration 1.2 and ICeTEe for this capability of acting on
partial InfoMac URLs after hearing that it could.
I can't find any reference in IC's or ICeTEe's documentation that I
have, which claims the ability to act on partial InfoMac URLs and the
dialog comes up to say that it doesn't work.
BTW, I always use Easy-View to read the InfoMac digest. It does work
for partial InfoMac URLs with its own code.
Cheers,
Darrell
--
Darrell Greenwood, Vancouver, BC [email protected]
My web homepage... http://mindlink.net/darrell_greenwood/
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:46:14 -0800
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [A] Performa 630 drive won't show
David wrote:
>Hi the internal drive has disappeared, the HD setup can't find it either.
>I've tried everything I've attached an external syquest to the 630 now so I
>can boot.
>What's going on?
>Thanks.
>david
Dear David:
Sounds to me like you are starting from the CD (or external drive)
while still having the IDE drive as your start up disk.
There are two solutions:
Try to restart from your system CD (if you have one), run disk first aid
and then try to select your IDE drive in the Start-up Disk control
panel.
1) Get the Extension: Mount IDE Drive (1.0)
ftptoo.support.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/Macintosh/System
Software
/Other System Software
Then restart.
2) Get the System 7.5 update. It corrects this problem
Make sure you have/ use the Drive_Set_Up 1.0.3, it is the latest one.
Good luck.
Romulo Romero
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 06:04:27 +0100
From: [email protected] (David Andriessen)
Subject: [A] Performa 630 drive won't show
At 8:46 PM 6/2/96, Romulo Romero wrote:
> Sounds to me like you are starting from the CD (or external drive)
> while still having the IDE drive as your start up disk.
>
> There are two solutions:
>
> Try to restart from your system CD (if you have one), run disk first aid
> and then try to select your IDE drive in the Start-up Disk control
> panel.
Thanks for your help but I think it turned out to be a hardware problem.
The only application that could detect the drive was Drive_Set_Up 1.0.3
and that gave me a type 1 error every time it tried to initialize. I
returned the Mac:)
So it's to late to try the mount IDE drive but I'll keep that one handy
incase it happens again.
cheers!
david
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:52:40 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Annoying dialogue boxes
Dear Mac-Infomeisters,
I have another annoying problem. I have two computers (IIci and an LCII)
networked together with local talk, and i share the stylewriter I have
between the two. The printer is hooked up to the LCII so I can use the modem
with teh IIci. However, in order for me to use the printer, the LCII must be
on also. That is not a problem since I don't print to often. Not printing
too often poses it's own problem, though. When ever I turn on the IIci
without the LCII being on, and thus the printer being "down", I keep gettinga
dialogue box saying "Printing Operations will not be available until you
choose a a printer from the chooser. I would like to know if there is any
way that I can bypass that dialogue box, and avoid it coiming up every 30
seconds.
Another problem I have is the dialogue box asking if I want to connect to the
other computer via file sharing. I need to click cancel 3 times because when
I click it the first time, the dialogue box just comes up again, and then a
third time. How do I stop these things? Any help would be deeply
appreciated.
Later,
kurt
[email protected]
-> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Eval:23Apr95
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:28:01 +0100
From: [email protected] (Stefano Pizzetti)
Subject: AppleScript strange behavior
I have a Performa 6300, 16Mb of RAM, Virtual Memory and Modern Memory
Manager both always off. Recently I trashed the Finder prefs because I had
problems with some icons. After restarting, the icons were restored but the
first time I tried to launch any of the AppleScript commands (those that
come inside the AppleScript folder when you install it) from the Apple Menu
I got a message that in english should sound something like this: "The
application (unknown name) has unexpectedly quit because a type 1 error
occurred". This doesn't happen if I launch the same scripts by double
clicking them, nor if I double click an alias of any of them. All the other
aliases in the Apple Menu are working fine, and so does everything else.
The problem seems to lie in the "Automatic commands" folder alias in the
Apple Menu, but I couldn't fix it.
I tried the following:
1) Trashing AppleScript prefs and reinstalling the whole AppleScript
package, including extensions, making a new alias of "Automatic Commands"
folder and putting it in the Apple Menu.
2) Trashing Finder prefs again and rebuilding the Desktop with TechTool 108.
3) Zapping the PRAM with TechTool 108.
4) Checking my hard disk with Disk First Aid, which found no problem.
5) Disabling various extensions and control panels that I thought could
cause problems.
I already know that a type 1 error is a bus error, but I also learned not
to trust this kind of error messages. Any help is welcome.
TIA
Stefano Pizzetti
Roma, Italia
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 11:01:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Neeraj Jain
Subject: Depersonalizing Software
Hi All,
A few issues back there was a talk of a shareware that can depersonalize
software. Unfortunately I did not save the massage, and am unable to find
the messages in the Info-Mac archives. Now I need it since I have acquired
an old version of a Microsoft Software. I would appreciate pointers to the
software. An e.mail reply is welcome since it has recently been discussed
in the list.
--neeraj jain
([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:37:05 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Deskwriter C to a PC
Hello All!,
Has anyone successfully connected an HP DeskWriter C to a PC via a serial
port? My employer gave me a Toshiba laptop with a docking station as my
work PC but I have a Mac setup at home. Any hints would be greatly
appreciated...
Oleg Chaikovsky
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:58:45 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: HELP: Alphabetizing
Is there a utility available that will force the finder to alphabetize
normally rather than ASCII format?
I would rather see:
1
2
3
12
14
24
Instead of:
1
12
14
2
24
3
Thanks in advance.
In Good Health,
Dr. Ed
Written with EMailer on a PowerMac, the only real computer!
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:31:58 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: ICeTEe (was: Internet Config)
John Bucy wrote:
>When I click on addresses you put in Info-mac like this -
>/info-mac/gui/aaron-12-enhancer-patch.hqx
>
>I get an error message saying
> this isn't a URL (well not by ICeTEe's definition anyway).
>I'm assuming InfoMac and Internet Config 1.2 are compatable and
>would like to know what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.
I believe that's a limitation of ICeTEe, not of Internet Config or Info-Mac
or your e-mail program. I, too, would _love_ to be able to Command-click
these partial /info-mac URLs and download the programs/files directly.
The reason for those partial URLs is, of course, that Info-Mac is so
popular an FTP site that, in order to avoid bandwidth drain on the main
site, FTP client apps are designed to automatically use whatever Info-Mac
mirror site you've set as your default in Internet Config or in the FTP
client itself. Choose the mirror closest to your location for (usually)
best results.
As for the ICeTEe problem, your/our best bet is to e-mail ICeTEe's
author(s) directly. I couldn't find an e-mail address in their Read Me
file, but their web site is
. Check it out and
let them know we want this feature added.
In the meantime, though, the following tidbit from their Read Me file may
prove of some solace to you:
"If you empty out a string in the STR# 128 resource inside ICeTEe, it won't
put up the corresponding error message dialog. For example, you can blank
out string number 8 and you will never see the "That isn't a URL" error
ever again (-;"
So if you can't beat 'em, hack 'em.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:42:28 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #34
Timothy Tan writes:
> This accounts for the fact that disk doctor complains that node #0 and #1
> are invalid. However, I don't understand why it can't fix them. I tried to
> use disk editor to write in a new first node address, but it doesn't allow
> me to change the values.
Norton Disk Editor will not let you edit your boot disk. That is, you
have to boot from a different drive before Norton Disk Editor will let
you change those values.
__
Ben Cox [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:33:09 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: Internet Config
On Sun, 04 Feb 1996 13:11:47 -0600, John Bucy
wrote:
> When I click on addresses you put in Info-mac like this -
> /info-mac/gui/aaron-12-enhancer-patch.hqx
>
> I get an error message saying
> this isn't a URL (well not by ICeTEe's definition anyway).
> I'm assuming InfoMac and Internet Config 1.2 are compatable and
> would like to know what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.
Nothing; ICeTEe is correct.
But if you view Info-Mac in either Easy View (I highly recommend it!) or
BBEdit, command-click is NOT passed to ICeTEe, but to BBEdit's GetURL
command, which CAN figure out how to complete the URL for you.
That would be a nice addition to ICeTEe!
Hope this helps. Cheers,
--
Gib Henry
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:50:42 -0300
From: [email protected] (Fernando Triveri)
Subject: Keyboard layouts
Recently I've added a Spanish keyboard layout to my System (7.5.1, running
on a Performa 5215CD). If I try to change the layout using
command-option-space, I can't select the U.S. keyboard. I can choose it
using the mouse at the Keyboard Control Panel menu, but if I use the
keystroke combination, the U.S. keyboard dissapears from the layout list.
My wife's PowerMac 6100 with system 7.5 uses the same keyboard layouts, but
they're working as expected (being able to select every layout using
command-option-space). I'm puzzled. I've tried copying my wife's control
panel into my Mac without success.
What could be wrong?
Fernando Triveri
[email protected]
Cordoba - Argentina
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:24:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (The Opera Ghost)
Subject: LaserWriter Bridge?
I am looking for the LaserWriter Bridge software to allow ethernet access
to a localtalked LaserWriter Select 360. (Apple told me this would do the
trick.) I have not been able to find it in Apple's Software Updates
section nor in Info-Mac. Is it available on the net, or do I need to buy
it outright?
Thanks much,
Christopher Ursich
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:02:26 -0400
From: [email protected] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: Mac Netscape 2 font display problem
I'm having a difficulty with NetScape 2 that I have NOT HAD with version
1.1. Specificially, the characters (typeface) under the icons for back,
forward, home, and so forth as well as the typeface for the tools such as
Net Directory and Net Search are appearing as 'garbage' characters. The
font in the location (URL) box appears fine as do the typefaces in the main
window--MOST of the time. That portion of the Wall Street Journal's "front
page" that is continuously updated (Dow Jones and other market indicators)
also shows up as 'garbage' (I can copy the characters to the clipboard and
paste them into a word processor where the text will display properly in a
WP selected font).
Mac IIci 20 MB RAM half empty 1 GByte HD
System 7.0.1 with tuneup 1.1.1 and Suitcase 2.1.4p1, ATM 2.0.3
Chicago, Geneva, and Monaco are in System the remaining fonts (LaserWriter
set as well as those that usually ship with the MacOS) are accessed via
Suitcase 2.
Has NetScape 2 some requirement (such as System 7.1 or later) that NetScape
1.1 doesn't have or am I having an extension conflict that I'm going to
have to muddle around looking for
Is anyone else experiencing similar difficulty?
/s Murph Sewall (860) 486-2489 voice
Marketing Department (860) 456-7725 fax
http://mktg.sba.uconn.edu/MKT/Faculty/Sewall.html
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:56:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Basil
To: [email protected]
cc: Info-Mac Submissions ,
Louise Black ,
Tom Basil
Subject: True Basic
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Another commerical Basic alternative for Mac and PC platforms is True Basic.
True BASIC, Inc.
12 Commerce Avenue
West Lebanon, NH 03784
USA
603-298-8517
603-298-7015 (fax)
Info c/o [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:46:14 -0600
> From: [email protected] (William D. Thompson)
> Subject: Basically BASIC
>
> In Info-Mac v14 #26, Tristan Meisters wrote:
> Subject: Microsoft Basic
>
> "... I found that I had a copy of Microsoft Basic Version 2.00 . I just
> "tried to run it (I used to be able to run it on system 6.0.3 , I am
now on
> "a newer machine running system 7.0.1) and it crashed my system and
sent my
> "machine into a loop of crash restart and then crash again ... Now I would
> "like to get this program running again , so I was wondering ... is there
> "any chance that I might be able to get an update through Microsoft..."
>
> Sorry, can't help you on Microsoft BASIC, but have you checked out Chipmunk
> BASIC?
> [Archived as /info-mac/dev/chipmunk-basic-328.hqx; 254K]
>
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 10:21:09 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: problem with icon of new formatted LC630 IDE disk using Drive setup
1.0.3.
problem with icon of new formatted LC630 IDE disk using Drive setup
1.0.3.
The harddisk of my LC 630 was crashed. I reformatted it with Drive
setup 1.0.3. and installed my system again.
The problem I have now is that the icon of the disk is a flat file
icon, and when I try to put a new icon on it, using cut, clear or
paste, I get the message "the command could not be completed, because
it could not be found".
Any idea how to overcome this problem?????
Gerrit.
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:50:37 -0300
From: [email protected] (Fernando Triveri)
Subject: Serial port missing
I have a Performa 5215CD and System 7.5.1. A couple of days ago, the
Chooser printer's list get off the menu. I can't setup any printer, nor
share my Mac over the Appletalk network. I've reinstalled the System
without result. The serial port appears to be missing.
It's a hardware or software problem? Can I use the modem port for printing
to my Personal LaserWriter 320?
Fernando Triveri
[email protected]
Cordoba - Argentina
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:09:15 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: Sleep mode extend unit life?
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #34, "Mark Allen" , wrote:
>I have responsibility for several Power Mac 7500's. Attached to one unit is
>a new Applevision monitor. Rather than shutting the units down each evening
>and over the weekend, I use the Energy Saver control panel to sleep the
>monitor, the disk, and the system. Does sleeping these things extend their
>operational lives as well as if I shut them down?
>
>One item that never seems to go to sleep is apparently the fan, which I hear
>running all the time. What is the mean time between failure for that? If
>that fails, is there some interlock that shuts everything down so the system
>doesn't accidentally overheat?
Mark, as a very happy user, could I recommend Jon Gotow's Sleeper (St.
Clair Software), now at V.2.0, and I think from memory up here at sumex in
config. (Normal disclaimers apply here!)
I've used Sleeper for 6 months, since v.1.1. This new version can replace
Energy Saver, and correctly sleep Energy Star monitors. In addition
Sleeper is a screen fader, and best of all perhaps it spins HD's down over
a wide range of times. Energy Saver used to bother me, even at v.1.2, and
Sleeper, with more features, and more user configurability, is a real
improvement. And the system doesn't go "Poop Poop Poop" when it wakes!
As for your real question, the one I'm not answering 'cause it's the
topic of threads running endlessly for years and years; the consensus such
as it is seems to say "shut down your computer if you're going to be away
>From it for more than 8 hrs or so."
It's a contest, IMO, between components like HD's and CRT's which don't
like to be shut down, yet wear out if they're on; and circuit board things
like capacitors which don't like changes of state, and should, if operating
at reasonable temperatures, be kept on.
You'll therefore extend the life of logic boards by keeping them on as much
as possible--oh, you want the fan on, fans are cheap and tend to last
forever, and offer the advantage of controlling temperature. A sleeping
monitor is in a very nice condition basically, it's at very low power but
not completely "off" (does anyone here know the exact details of this?)
One of the reasons I like Sleeper V.2 so much is that it lets the HD spin
down after as long as 3 hrs. If a machine is unused for that length of
time, it doesn't hurt much--given the modern mean time between failure for
drives--to have it spin down and save power.
But we haven't spoken of power supplies--on the old Macs I've known, that's
the item which fails first. Low power use not switched on/off too much is
the thing which occurs to me, so again sleep is good! But others will
think differently...
And we haven't spoken of thunderstorms. In a stormy city, my own Macs are
shut down each evening, with their power plugs out of the sockets. And the
phone wires to modems pulled at the wall. I find *I* sleep better that
way!
--Bill Stanford
------------------
[email protected]
"Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs..."
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:45:47 +0100
From: "Adriano Santoni"
Subject: Smart text-searching utility wanted
Hello, Mac fanatics.
I am looking for a text-searching tool having the follwing features:
1. capable of searching inside a whole folder of files of any kind/size
2. allowing the user to quickly open (by double-clicking) any document wherein
the searched text has been found
3. consuming little memory
4. allowing the user to specify "wildcards" (ie, jolly characters) in search
patterns
5. not annoying the user with registration reminders, beeps, clicks, pop-up
messages and the like
6. with a neat interface, providing as much information as possible
7. fast
Does anybody know of such a thing? I have found something similar by myself,
but the stuff I have does not comply with all requirements 1 to 7. Thanks a
lot in advance for any direction.
Adriano Santoni
([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 10:40:40 JST
From: [email protected] (Keith S. Wilkinson)
Subject: System 7.5.2 needed (Japanese -> English swap maybe?)
An acquaintance purchased a 7500/100 here in Japan, and it came with the
Japanese version of 7.5.2. He wants the English (US) version of 7.5.2. Apple
Japan apparently said that 7.5.2 was not an item that he could buy. Does
anyone have any suggestions?
Keith WILKINSON, Home e-mail: CompuServe 100207,710
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:32:11 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Unable to open SIT! files
Les Becker wrote:
>I find that,regardless of translator app used, I cannot decompress Mac
>Binary files with a SIT! prefix. e.g.
> SIT! frLau j
> SIT! n{rLau
"SIT!" as a prefix? Interesting: I've only seen it with a suffix, (e.g.
"filename.sit"). Try renaming the file so it has .sit as the suffix. To
follow your above examples (did they really come named that way?), rename
them as:
frLau j.sit
n{rLau.sit
...and then drag them on top of the StuffIt! icon. See if that works.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 17:58:31 cdt
From: [email protected]
Subject: Where can I
Hey, my four year old and my seven year old got hand me down Mac
512's. I believe they are running os 5.3. I tried down loading some
stuff but it all took more ram and newer systems than the 512's have.
Where can I find a site that has education programs & games that will
run on a Mac 512.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 23:32:43 +0100
From: [email protected] (Michael)
Subject: Word Eqn Editor question
Hi,
I used the Equation Editor of Word 5.1 with both the bitmap and the
TrueType versions of New Century Schoolbook installed.
When printing the document, the equations are too slanted, too italic.
This does not happen when I de-install the TrueType fonts and use only the
bitmap version (in this case the italics look fine).
Could it be that the (slow!) Equation Editor italizes the italic version of
the TrueType fonts (e.g. by bypassing the Font Manager?). How do I get rid
of the too italized printing problem? I would like to use the TrueType
version, since it looks better on the screen, when working with odd sizes
(e.g. 11 points).
Thanks,
Michael
([email protected])
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 7 Feb 96 Volume 14 : Issue 35
Today's Topics:
[*] c++advio: Advanced i/o & arithmetic compression classlib
[*] CDMatica 1.0
[*] Cindy's Newsmailer v1.0
[*] Cinematic Land 1.0
[*] descent_hack
[*] February issue of Mac Net Journal is out
[*] Giza v1.0.3 3D adventure game
[*] Glidel 2.7
[*] grayimage-21: _enhanced_ grayscale image processing classlib
[*] JumbleCatIcon
[*] KM's QuickTime plugin for Netscape, Version 0.2.0
[*] macnopoly - game
[*] MacSense February 1996
[*] mactk4.1b1 (Tcl/Tk scripting language interpreter)
[*] Mikey's Apple external HD Icon
[*] Mikey's MacBrickout Levels
[*] MyEyes 2.1.2
[*] RaceVIEW, Cub Scout Derby Manager
[*] Yet another...
(no subject)
[A] Help!!! (Extracting binaries)
[A] Internet Config
[A] Performa 630 drive won't show (2 msgs)
Annoying dialogue boxes
AppleScript strange behavior
Depersonalizing Software
Deskwriter C to a PC
HELP: Alphabetizing
ICeTEe (was: Internet Config)
Info-Mac Digest V14 #34
Internet Config
Keyboard layouts
LaserWriter Bridge?
Mac Netscape 2 font display problem
problem with icon of new formatted LC630 IDE disk using Drive setup
1.0.3.
Serial port missing
Sleep mode extend unit life?
Smart text-searching utility wanted
System 7.5.2 needed (Japanese -> English swap maybe?)
Unable to open SIT! files
Where can I
Word Eqn Editor question
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:06 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kiselyov Oleg)
Subject: [*] c++advio: Advanced i/o & arithmetic compression classlib
Attached is an updated version of c++advio, an advanced i/o &
arithmetic compression classlib, Mac distribution. Please replace an
old version
info-mac:/dev/lib/advanced-io-cpp.hqx
which you currently have. The most significant change is a 4-line
tweak with sharing of an i/o buffer (which became necessary as CW8 has
changed the way virtual classes are destroyed). The current
implementation hopefully gets rid of these specific dependencies for
good. All projects and the library are recompiled with CW8. For the
first time it became possible to use PowerPC alignment of structures
in the CW projects that use C++ streams (it crashed before).
c++advio: Various advanced i/o codings of streams of integers
Keywords: arithmetic coding, start-stop coding, endian i/o, compression
Hot points:
- variable-bit coding of sequences of integers
(including the Arithmetic compression)
- explicit endian specification in dealing with integer streams
- a trick of sharing a stream buffer (a "file") among several streams
- with a validation code to verify everything
- with a commented source and CW8 projects
Please see a README file for more details.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/advanced-io-cpp.hqx; 97K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:11 -0600
From: [email protected] (Otto Krauth)
Subject: [*] CDMatica 1.0
CDMatica is a powerful database tool for music CD collectors, Clubs D.J.,
radio stations, Music fans, etc. CDMatica lets you store all your CD's
titles and songs, permitting you to search by song name, composer, artist,
year of release, song durations and many more. The database is relational
so you could add any observations to your favorite CDs or songs. You can
easily keep track of all the work of soloists or song writers in your
collection. Generate song lists for recordings or to program musical events
with complete play time, sorting and total N# of songs
Some of the features
- Import and Export of data from other applications
- Customizable pop up menus to classify your CDs
- Programmable Play List.
- Catalogue printing
- Keywords searching
System Requirements
- 68K Macintosh or Power Mac (fat file)
- Hard Disk
- 2 Meg of RAM available
- 68020 or better
- 640 x 480 monitors (Color or monochrome)
[Archived as /info-mac/data/cd-matica.hqx; 1475K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:13 -0600
From: Cindy Carney
Subject: [*] Cindy's Newsmailer v1.0
Version 1.0c is out, and fixes the problem many Power Mac users were
having with the product. The problem occurred if there was an odd menu
at the top of your screen, such as an icon menu. This affected mainly
Power Mac owners, but the occasional PowerBook was affected, as well.
Cindy's Newsmailer v1.0c is an offline newsgroup and emailer with
many advanced features, including the following:
1. Sends and receives email and newsgroup messages at times you
specify, and allows you to read and compose offline.
2. Supports background downloading, so you can read and compose
messages while the software is transferring messages.
3. Resizable, colored, scrolling windows, and different color "quoted"
text. The colors are user-settable.
4. Automatic routing of incoming messages to different folders based
on content. This allows you to, say, send all mailing list
messages to one folder, and all "get rich quick" messages to
another!
5. Indefinite message retention. You can keep all messages forever, or
expire messages as desired.
6. Address book to store frequently used addresses.
7. Tagline capability to store your favorite signature lines.
8. Form letters feature allows you to write standardized messages that
have wildcards for certain information, such as logonid, name,
date, time, your name, etc. When you choose a form to send to a
user, it automatically fills in these wildcards with the
appropriate information. Use this feature to send standardized
information with a "custom-built" look.
9. Carbon copies, blind carbon copies, and "message received"
acknowledgements.
10. Can use either MacTCP for an Internet connection, or the Apple
Modem Tool with the comm toolbox to use a "shell" account.
11. Will run on Power Macs, and older machines with limited memory.
12. Includes a new "sound notification" facility which will notify
you when new mail comes in for certain folders.
Try it, you'll like it!
-- Cindy M. Carney, [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/cindys-newsmailer-10c-hc.hqx; 351K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:24:22 -0600
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Cinematic Land 1.0
Cinematic Land is a graphic simulation system of cinematic chains for
Macintosh and accelerated for PowerMacintosh. It resolves the position,
the speed and the acceleration of any point and any member. You can edit
closed or opened chains, using blocked and movable points. Standard tools
are available in a palette window to make easy editing. Every member or
point could have indipendent time evolution.
You control any cinematic size through an unlimited number of control
windows adjustable on your screen. More new features have to come in
next releases.
Some examples are bundled, like the model of a rod & crank in internal
combustion engines, the core mechanism of a textile machine, the principle
of motion-picture projectors.
Cinematic Land requires System 7.0 and Color Quickdraw. If your Macintosh
can't run Cinematic Land, please email me why.
This archive contains two applications:
Cinematic Land 68K 1.0: intended for low-end users (68000 to 68LC040).
Cinematic Land 1.0: fat binary for power users (68020 and FPU to PPC).
Help system is integrated with an AppleGuide, though coaching isn't even
available, because lack of coming AppleScript features in Cinematic Land.
Cinematic Land is a shareware software of 15$ fee and you could reach
its author at [email protected].
I suggest to put this file into /sci directory.
Ciao
Marco
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/cinematic-land-10.hqx; 418K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:48 -0600
From: das
Subject: [*] descent_hack
its a small patch so that you dont have to have you can copy descent to
your HD and not have to have the cd in every time that you want to play.
das
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/descent-hack.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:00 -0600
From: [email protected] (Rob & Natalie McNair-Huff)
Subject: [*] February issue of Mac Net Journal is out
Hello to all,
The latest issue of Mac Net Journal is out and on the Net. Written in
down to Earth language, MNJ reviews shareware, gives personal articles on
Macintosh-related topics, and how-to sessions to help people get the most
out of their Macs while on the Internet. In this issue: Mac Net Journal
switches editors, we serve up a dish of hot PowerBook humor, we look back
at MacWorld Expo and this month's SpiderWeb column looks ahead to what
will happen to the Net in '96. We also throw in a dose of shareware game
reviews.
MNJ has been around for nearly a year and a half and is available in
two formats: a downloadable multimedia file via FTP or via the World Wide
Web.
For the Web:
http://www.blol.com/web_mnj/
For downloading:
ftp://amug.org/info-mac/per/_MacNet/
Subscriptions are still available and very, very free - simply email us
at [email protected].
Businesses interested in advertising in this new media, please contact
us at [email protected] - we do static and multimedia ads.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/mnet/mac-net-journal-96-02.hqx; 471K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:47:08 -0600
From: [email protected] (Bob Mancarella)
Subject: [*] Giza v1.0.3 3D adventure game
Giza is a 3D, first person perspective, fully texture mapped adventure game
for the Mac.
You are a scientist who has discovered that the great pyramids of Egypt
will soon be destroyed. The secrets that can save them lie within the
pyramids themselves. You must try to collect all the information you need
without getting yourself killed.
Giza is full of secrets, gold and dangers. There are tricks, traps and evil
inhabitants in the pyramid that will try to stop you. There is also a
special ring, transporters, secret passageways and magic potions that can
help you. 25 levels of mystery and adventure.
Giza also comes with an editor that lets you create your own pyramid
levels! Challenge your friends with levels you created or upload them for
others to try. The editor is so easy to use that anyone can create great
levels in minutes.
Version 1.0.3 changes.
1) Changed required memory to 4100k.
2) 68k machines can now go past level 8.
3) Added no-fade code.
4) The system's date format is now reset correctly.
Accelerated for PowerMac.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/giza-103.hqx; 1992K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/giza-103-updt.hqx; 65K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:05 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gilles Berkovitch)
Subject: [*] Glidel 2.7
Glidel est une extension qui sert, a partir de la selection du Finder, =
=E0 :
- declencher les actions correspondants aux articles du menu Fichier,
- ouvrir des documents par des applications ne les ayant pas crees,
- mouvoir ou copier la selection,
- creer des alias de la selection.
Nouveautes de la version 2.7 :
- Glidel tient compte du nouvel article du menu fichier que revele
l'extension du systeme "Finder Alias Extensions
Enabler",
- Glidel marche aussi avec les sous-menus des vieilles versions de
PopupFolder (merci Dana Nau).
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-27-fr.hqx; 35K]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-27.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:09 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kiselyov Oleg)
Subject: [*] grayimage-21: _enhanced_ grayscale image processing classlib
The new release of the code has a few minor memory allocation tweaks:
it matters actually only for CW, where delete and free() do differ,
even for primitive types. The most significant change is that all
projects and the library are recompiled with CW8. Projects'
preferences are now changed to include PowerPC alignment: it wasn't
safe to do before if the code used C++ streams. The old submission had
CW6 projects and library, which are clearly obsolete (and must be
recompiled/converted to work with the latest CW). That'll warrant
resubmission, I figured.
What: grayscale image processing class library and verification code
Keywords: image arithmetics, image filtration, lazy image, C++, class library
Hot points:
- all standard algebra/arithmetics on an image/image slices
- LazyImages, and PixelAction iterators for fast sweeping actions
- very *fast* convolutions, median filtration, and look-up
table substitutions
- morphological filtration
- assigning an image of _really_ any size to another image _to fit_
- Fractal clouds generator (as an example of a Lazy Image)
- reading/writing XWD/PGM/grayscale_TIFF files with automatic
input file format recognition
- with a validation code to verify everything
- with a commented source and CW8 projects
A README file gives more details.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/gray-image-21-cpp.hqx; 442K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:12 -0600
From: Keith Cooper (Keith Cooper)
Subject: [*] JumbleCatIcon
Hello there
As the name says, this is an icon of a cat called Jumble.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/jumble-cat-icon.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:07:16 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kevin McMurtrie)
Subject: [*] KM's QuickTime plugin for Netscape, Version 0.2.0
A fat binary multimedia plug-in for Netscape. Version 0.2.0 (2/5/95)
This is a multimedia Plug-in for Netscape 2.06a. Web surfers can
use this
to watch movies and listen to music right from Netscape. This plug-in
offers HTML authors the ability to play background music, stretch movies,
present slide shows, and use continuously looping animations. The plug-in
should be placed in Netscape's "Plug-ins" folder.
Supported media:
QuickTime, MPEG, Midi, Windows WAVE, Sun =B5Law, AIFF, and Mac PICT.
Improvements since 0.1.0 (1/31/95):
* Lots of seemingly harmless bugs fixed.
* Importing of many media types.
* The default settings will not change the aspect ratio of
shrink-to-fit images.
* Movies will continue where left off when web pages are left and
revisited, memory permitting.
* Printing works.
* Plain controllers on soundtracks are centered.
* Zero-area destination boxes are safe.
=46ree, Pascal source code included.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/web/kms-qt-netscape-plug-02.hqx; 57K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:26:39 -0600
From: [email protected] (Chad Kluck)
Subject: [*] macnopoly - game
This HyperCard stack is much like the original board game. There is an
added bonus for sending the shareware fee. Requires HyperCard 2.0 or
later.
Chad Kluck [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/macnopoly-11-hc.hqx; 218K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:05:33 -0600
From: Alex Narvey
Subject: [*] MacSense February 1996
MacSense February 1996. Volume 3, Issue 1.
Got the February blahs? We've got a cure! Download our second anniversary
issue and get the inside scoop on System Update 2.0=E3due any minute!
=46ebruary's issue also brings news of Apple's troubled times, rumors of a
possible merger and big change in management.
Browse through February's MacSense and learn how to keep your home pages
clean, neat and unburdening. Let John Nemerovski tell you about the last
altruist. Learn about the cool new feature set of System Update 2.0, and
read about Brian Fort=C8's day with Open Transport 1.1. Smirk at the inanity
unveiled in five new Tech Support Tales. Name your ImageWriters. Get
psyched with our net net column, Cerebrealilty. Take in a review of
PageMill, SoftWindows, Paperport Vx or Rebel Assault II. On the heels of
his new book, The Game Warden brings you the news and notes from Macworld
Expo. Jim Hines muses about the quality of printed material. And, finally,
Editor-in-Chief Chris McVeigh quells fears that the end is near.
MacSense: The Macintosh=C6 E-Zine is a FREE monthly electronic magazine whic=
h
focuses on the mainstream Macintosh computer market. Each issue of MacSense
details the most significant news stories in the world of Macintosh
computing and explores how these new developments will affect every-day Mac
users. Packed with vibrant color graphics and in depth product reviews, it
is the founding goal of MacSense to shed light on a rapidly evolving
industry. Moreover, because MacSense is created and distributed
electronically, it is the most environmentally friendly method of
publishing. We hope you enjoy this issue!
The attached file is a Stuffit archive. You will need Stuffit Expander or
another Stuffit compression utility to extract it.
The color edition of MacSense requires a Macintosh with at least 16 shades
of grey. For optimal viewing, we recommend 16-bit color. The black and
white edition of MacSense can be viewed on any Macintosh.
NEWS: Apple management plays musical chairs, Apple falls to #3, Apple/Sun
merger rumours abound, and more!
APPLEBITS: New disks sets for PowerBook 5300s, 190s, 2300s and
LaserWriters...and more!
QUICKBITS: Netscape Navigator 2.0 released, Filemaker Pro 3.0 debuts...and m=
ore!
EDITORIAL: Chris McVeigh muses about the future of Apple.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: High praise for HotBits, Large and loving it!,
Salute to War Gamings and more!
BRAVE NEW WORLD: The Last Altruist.
=46EATURE: Getting Started with HTML, Part II. Oliver Dueck helps you keep
your home page clean and neat.
=46EATURE: System 7.5 Update 2.0: A Preview. Brian Fort=C8 gets the good stu=
ff
on Update 2.0, and takes you for a walk with OT 1.1.
MACADEMIA: Mac for Faculty Desktops. Which Mac is right for the educator?
CEREBREALITY: NEW COLUMN! Greg Kramer waxes poetic about the benefits of
the Internet.
ABOUT THIS MACINTOSH: Generic Icons, Naming ImageWriters, PowerBook display
and Macintosh AV Options
TECH SUPPORT TALES: "Fax Facts," "Digital Expectations," The All-in-One
Model," and more!
SOFTWARE REVIEWS: PageMill, SoftWindows, Act 2.5, Studio Pro 1.5.2 and
Vision 3d 4.0, CD-ROM Toolkit, MacEKG!
HARDWARE REVIEWS: DeskJet 850c, Paperport Vx, IRISPen, and FotoFUN!
GAME REVIEWS: Rebel Assault II, X-Wing
THE GAME WARDEN: Macworld Expo '96: News and Notes!
BLUE SUNSHINE: All the news that's fit to print...
You can find the latest issue of MacSense (and back issues) at the
following locations:
eWorld and CompuServe: Within the ZiffNet/Mac areas, path: Software
Center/Software Central/Electronic Publications/Additional Publications.
America Online: The Macintosh Computer Hardware File Library. Keyword:
'Hardware'; in the 'New Uploads' folder. Also see the Macintosh Multimedia
=46ile Library, keyword: 'MMW'; in the 'New Uploads' folder.
World Wide Web: MacSense has a new home on the Web! For the latest news,
views and reviews and a complete library of our issues, set your sites to
http://www.macsense.com/macsense/
Internet FTP site: The Periodicals folder of the Info-Mac archives at
Stanford University, internet address: sumex-aim.stanford.edu, path:
/info-mac/per.
Please e-mail us if you have questions, comments, suggestions,
contributions, or just to say "Hi". Our e-mail addresses are as follows:
Internet: [email protected]
eWorld: MacSense Ed.
Subject: (no subject)
Dear Sir,
Where do I get Apple Events? ULAW 1.4 says I need it plus System 7.
Please let me know. Thanks!!!
e-yours,
Bill
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:46:07 -0800
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [A] Help!!! (Extracting binaries)
[email protected] wrote:
>Could someone help me? I have a Mac, and I'm confused....
>I am trying to view pictures in the alt.binaries.pictures newsgroup, but
>when I bring up a listing, all I get is gibberish. Apparently it's some...
Dear bgb:
I assume that you are using Newswatcher 2.0 (the latest version).
You should read the Newswatcher manual, it is explained well there.
Here are a few pointers. You need to set in the Newswatcher preferences
the application to decode the files. Go to Preferences, select
extracting Binaries
and then set the decoding program. You can use UULite or UUuncode but
I like
uuUndo myself: it is freeware and works very well. Select this program
in the 'uudecode helper program' box.
When you open a message that has been uuencoded, you will get a little
window
with the title and a small bow with 0's and 1's. Click on it os select
extract
binaries. The file should be decoded when the download is complete.
You can select
uuUndo to automatically delete the encoded files. To view the
pictutes, get something
like JPEG View or JADE and open the decoded files.
As far as I know, Newswatcher can not auto decode base-64 encoded files
(another type of
encoding, more rarely used). If you open a file and get a big text
file that looks like
gibberish, save it, then use something like YA-Base64 1.1.0 to decode
it.
Write back if you need more help.
Romul Romero
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 22:44:36 -0800
From: [email protected] (Darrell Greenwood)
Subject: [A] Internet Config
On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:12:14 -0600 From: [email protected] wrote;
> Kaysen) Subject: [A] Internet Config
> The example address you gave isn't a *complete* url because it
> doesn't include the machine name.
Agreed.
> And this is on purpose--it allows
> Info-Mac readers from all over to use the handiest Info-Mac mirror.
> Here's how you choose yours:
>
> Open Internet Config, click on the "File Transfer" panel, and then
> select the default Info-Mac server machine name from the second
> pop-up menu. Choose one that's relatively near your home (A few
> hundred miles from you, I use UIowa).
>
> While you're at it, click on the "helpers" panel and make sure that
> the "ftp" helper is assigned (I use Anarchie).
>
> Save these changes, then try the "click on the address" trick again.
I did this.
> This time Internet Config puts together the machine name you've
> chosen with the partial URL, creating (in the case of UIowa)
>
>
ftp://grind.isca.uiowa.edu/mac/infomac/ ... -patch.hqx
> then passes the whole string to your ftp helper, which will then
> attempt to connect to the server to get the file.
Nope. Got the "....not by ICeTEe definition..." dialog.
I find this frustrating because this the second time I have checked
Internet Configuration 1.2 and ICeTEe for this capability of acting on
partial InfoMac URLs after hearing that it could.
I can't find any reference in IC's or ICeTEe's documentation that I
have, which claims the ability to act on partial InfoMac URLs and the
dialog comes up to say that it doesn't work.
BTW, I always use Easy-View to read the InfoMac digest. It does work
for partial InfoMac URLs with its own code.
Cheers,
Darrell
--
Darrell Greenwood, Vancouver, BC [email protected]
My web homepage... http://mindlink.net/darrell_greenwood/
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:46:14 -0800
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [A] Performa 630 drive won't show
David wrote:
>Hi the internal drive has disappeared, the HD setup can't find it either.
>I've tried everything I've attached an external syquest to the 630 now so I
>can boot.
>What's going on?
>Thanks.
>david
Dear David:
Sounds to me like you are starting from the CD (or external drive)
while still having the IDE drive as your start up disk.
There are two solutions:
Try to restart from your system CD (if you have one), run disk first aid
and then try to select your IDE drive in the Start-up Disk control
panel.
1) Get the Extension: Mount IDE Drive (1.0)
ftptoo.support.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/Macintosh/System
Software
/Other System Software
Then restart.
2) Get the System 7.5 update. It corrects this problem
Make sure you have/ use the Drive_Set_Up 1.0.3, it is the latest one.
Good luck.
Romulo Romero
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 06:04:27 +0100
From: [email protected] (David Andriessen)
Subject: [A] Performa 630 drive won't show
At 8:46 PM 6/2/96, Romulo Romero wrote:
> Sounds to me like you are starting from the CD (or external drive)
> while still having the IDE drive as your start up disk.
>
> There are two solutions:
>
> Try to restart from your system CD (if you have one), run disk first aid
> and then try to select your IDE drive in the Start-up Disk control
> panel.
Thanks for your help but I think it turned out to be a hardware problem.
The only application that could detect the drive was Drive_Set_Up 1.0.3
and that gave me a type 1 error every time it tried to initialize. I
returned the Mac:)
So it's to late to try the mount IDE drive but I'll keep that one handy
incase it happens again.
cheers!
david
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:52:40 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Annoying dialogue boxes
Dear Mac-Infomeisters,
I have another annoying problem. I have two computers (IIci and an LCII)
networked together with local talk, and i share the stylewriter I have
between the two. The printer is hooked up to the LCII so I can use the modem
with teh IIci. However, in order for me to use the printer, the LCII must be
on also. That is not a problem since I don't print to often. Not printing
too often poses it's own problem, though. When ever I turn on the IIci
without the LCII being on, and thus the printer being "down", I keep gettinga
dialogue box saying "Printing Operations will not be available until you
choose a a printer from the chooser. I would like to know if there is any
way that I can bypass that dialogue box, and avoid it coiming up every 30
seconds.
Another problem I have is the dialogue box asking if I want to connect to the
other computer via file sharing. I need to click cancel 3 times because when
I click it the first time, the dialogue box just comes up again, and then a
third time. How do I stop these things? Any help would be deeply
appreciated.
Later,
kurt
[email protected]
-> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Eval:23Apr95
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:28:01 +0100
From: [email protected] (Stefano Pizzetti)
Subject: AppleScript strange behavior
I have a Performa 6300, 16Mb of RAM, Virtual Memory and Modern Memory
Manager both always off. Recently I trashed the Finder prefs because I had
problems with some icons. After restarting, the icons were restored but the
first time I tried to launch any of the AppleScript commands (those that
come inside the AppleScript folder when you install it) from the Apple Menu
I got a message that in english should sound something like this: "The
application (unknown name) has unexpectedly quit because a type 1 error
occurred". This doesn't happen if I launch the same scripts by double
clicking them, nor if I double click an alias of any of them. All the other
aliases in the Apple Menu are working fine, and so does everything else.
The problem seems to lie in the "Automatic commands" folder alias in the
Apple Menu, but I couldn't fix it.
I tried the following:
1) Trashing AppleScript prefs and reinstalling the whole AppleScript
package, including extensions, making a new alias of "Automatic Commands"
folder and putting it in the Apple Menu.
2) Trashing Finder prefs again and rebuilding the Desktop with TechTool 108.
3) Zapping the PRAM with TechTool 108.
4) Checking my hard disk with Disk First Aid, which found no problem.
5) Disabling various extensions and control panels that I thought could
cause problems.
I already know that a type 1 error is a bus error, but I also learned not
to trust this kind of error messages. Any help is welcome.
TIA
Stefano Pizzetti
Roma, Italia
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 11:01:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Neeraj Jain
Subject: Depersonalizing Software
Hi All,
A few issues back there was a talk of a shareware that can depersonalize
software. Unfortunately I did not save the massage, and am unable to find
the messages in the Info-Mac archives. Now I need it since I have acquired
an old version of a Microsoft Software. I would appreciate pointers to the
software. An e.mail reply is welcome since it has recently been discussed
in the list.
--neeraj jain
([email protected])
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:37:05 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Deskwriter C to a PC
Hello All!,
Has anyone successfully connected an HP DeskWriter C to a PC via a serial
port? My employer gave me a Toshiba laptop with a docking station as my
work PC but I have a Mac setup at home. Any hints would be greatly
appreciated...
Oleg Chaikovsky
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:58:45 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: HELP: Alphabetizing
Is there a utility available that will force the finder to alphabetize
normally rather than ASCII format?
I would rather see:
1
2
3
12
14
24
Instead of:
1
12
14
2
24
3
Thanks in advance.
In Good Health,
Dr. Ed
Written with EMailer on a PowerMac, the only real computer!
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:31:58 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: ICeTEe (was: Internet Config)
John Bucy wrote:
>When I click on addresses you put in Info-mac like this -
>/info-mac/gui/aaron-12-enhancer-patch.hqx
>
>I get an error message saying
> this isn't a URL (well not by ICeTEe's definition anyway).
>I'm assuming InfoMac and Internet Config 1.2 are compatable and
>would like to know what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.
I believe that's a limitation of ICeTEe, not of Internet Config or Info-Mac
or your e-mail program. I, too, would _love_ to be able to Command-click
these partial /info-mac URLs and download the programs/files directly.
The reason for those partial URLs is, of course, that Info-Mac is so
popular an FTP site that, in order to avoid bandwidth drain on the main
site, FTP client apps are designed to automatically use whatever Info-Mac
mirror site you've set as your default in Internet Config or in the FTP
client itself. Choose the mirror closest to your location for (usually)
best results.
As for the ICeTEe problem, your/our best bet is to e-mail ICeTEe's
author(s) directly. I couldn't find an e-mail address in their Read Me
file, but their web site is
. Check it out and
let them know we want this feature added.
In the meantime, though, the following tidbit from their Read Me file may
prove of some solace to you:
"If you empty out a string in the STR# 128 resource inside ICeTEe, it won't
put up the corresponding error message dialog. For example, you can blank
out string number 8 and you will never see the "That isn't a URL" error
ever again (-;"
So if you can't beat 'em, hack 'em.
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:42:28 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #34
Timothy Tan writes:
> This accounts for the fact that disk doctor complains that node #0 and #1
> are invalid. However, I don't understand why it can't fix them. I tried to
> use disk editor to write in a new first node address, but it doesn't allow
> me to change the values.
Norton Disk Editor will not let you edit your boot disk. That is, you
have to boot from a different drive before Norton Disk Editor will let
you change those values.
__
Ben Cox [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:33:09 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: Internet Config
On Sun, 04 Feb 1996 13:11:47 -0600, John Bucy
wrote:
> When I click on addresses you put in Info-mac like this -
> /info-mac/gui/aaron-12-enhancer-patch.hqx
>
> I get an error message saying
> this isn't a URL (well not by ICeTEe's definition anyway).
> I'm assuming InfoMac and Internet Config 1.2 are compatable and
> would like to know what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.
Nothing; ICeTEe is correct.
But if you view Info-Mac in either Easy View (I highly recommend it!) or
BBEdit, command-click is NOT passed to ICeTEe, but to BBEdit's GetURL
command, which CAN figure out how to complete the URL for you.
That would be a nice addition to ICeTEe!
Hope this helps. Cheers,
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:50:42 -0300
From: [email protected] (Fernando Triveri)
Subject: Keyboard layouts
Recently I've added a Spanish keyboard layout to my System (7.5.1, running
on a Performa 5215CD). If I try to change the layout using
command-option-space, I can't select the U.S. keyboard. I can choose it
using the mouse at the Keyboard Control Panel menu, but if I use the
keystroke combination, the U.S. keyboard dissapears from the layout list.
My wife's PowerMac 6100 with system 7.5 uses the same keyboard layouts, but
they're working as expected (being able to select every layout using
command-option-space). I'm puzzled. I've tried copying my wife's control
panel into my Mac without success.
What could be wrong?
Fernando Triveri
[email protected]
Cordoba - Argentina
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:24:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (The Opera Ghost)
Subject: LaserWriter Bridge?
I am looking for the LaserWriter Bridge software to allow ethernet access
to a localtalked LaserWriter Select 360. (Apple told me this would do the
trick.) I have not been able to find it in Apple's Software Updates
section nor in Info-Mac. Is it available on the net, or do I need to buy
it outright?
Thanks much,
Christopher Ursich
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:02:26 -0400
From: [email protected] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: Mac Netscape 2 font display problem
I'm having a difficulty with NetScape 2 that I have NOT HAD with version
1.1. Specificially, the characters (typeface) under the icons for back,
forward, home, and so forth as well as the typeface for the tools such as
Net Directory and Net Search are appearing as 'garbage' characters. The
font in the location (URL) box appears fine as do the typefaces in the main
window--MOST of the time. That portion of the Wall Street Journal's "front
page" that is continuously updated (Dow Jones and other market indicators)
also shows up as 'garbage' (I can copy the characters to the clipboard and
paste them into a word processor where the text will display properly in a
WP selected font).
Mac IIci 20 MB RAM half empty 1 GByte HD
System 7.0.1 with tuneup 1.1.1 and Suitcase 2.1.4p1, ATM 2.0.3
Chicago, Geneva, and Monaco are in System the remaining fonts (LaserWriter
set as well as those that usually ship with the MacOS) are accessed via
Suitcase 2.
Has NetScape 2 some requirement (such as System 7.1 or later) that NetScape
1.1 doesn't have or am I having an extension conflict that I'm going to
have to muddle around looking for
Is anyone else experiencing similar difficulty?
/s Murph Sewall (860) 486-2489 voice
Marketing Department (860) 456-7725 fax
http://mktg.sba.uconn.edu/MKT/Faculty/Sewall.html
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:56:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Basil
To: [email protected]
cc: Info-Mac Submissions ,
Louise Black ,
Tom Basil
Subject: True Basic
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Another commerical Basic alternative for Mac and PC platforms is True Basic.
True BASIC, Inc.
12 Commerce Avenue
West Lebanon, NH 03784
USA
603-298-8517
603-298-7015 (fax)
Info c/o [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:46:14 -0600
> From: [email protected] (William D. Thompson)
> Subject: Basically BASIC
>
> In Info-Mac v14 #26, Tristan Meisters wrote:
> Subject: Microsoft Basic
>
> "... I found that I had a copy of Microsoft Basic Version 2.00 . I just
> "tried to run it (I used to be able to run it on system 6.0.3 , I am
now on
> "a newer machine running system 7.0.1) and it crashed my system and
sent my
> "machine into a loop of crash restart and then crash again ... Now I would
> "like to get this program running again , so I was wondering ... is there
> "any chance that I might be able to get an update through Microsoft..."
>
> Sorry, can't help you on Microsoft BASIC, but have you checked out Chipmunk
> BASIC?
> [Archived as /info-mac/dev/chipmunk-basic-328.hqx; 254K]
>
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 10:21:09 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: problem with icon of new formatted LC630 IDE disk using Drive setup
1.0.3.
problem with icon of new formatted LC630 IDE disk using Drive setup
1.0.3.
The harddisk of my LC 630 was crashed. I reformatted it with Drive
setup 1.0.3. and installed my system again.
The problem I have now is that the icon of the disk is a flat file
icon, and when I try to put a new icon on it, using cut, clear or
paste, I get the message "the command could not be completed, because
it could not be found".
Any idea how to overcome this problem?????
Gerrit.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:50:37 -0300
From: [email protected] (Fernando Triveri)
Subject: Serial port missing
I have a Performa 5215CD and System 7.5.1. A couple of days ago, the
Chooser printer's list get off the menu. I can't setup any printer, nor
share my Mac over the Appletalk network. I've reinstalled the System
without result. The serial port appears to be missing.
It's a hardware or software problem? Can I use the modem port for printing
to my Personal LaserWriter 320?
Fernando Triveri
[email protected]
Cordoba - Argentina
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:09:15 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: Sleep mode extend unit life?
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #34, "Mark Allen" , wrote:
>I have responsibility for several Power Mac 7500's. Attached to one unit is
>a new Applevision monitor. Rather than shutting the units down each evening
>and over the weekend, I use the Energy Saver control panel to sleep the
>monitor, the disk, and the system. Does sleeping these things extend their
>operational lives as well as if I shut them down?
>
>One item that never seems to go to sleep is apparently the fan, which I hear
>running all the time. What is the mean time between failure for that? If
>that fails, is there some interlock that shuts everything down so the system
>doesn't accidentally overheat?
Mark, as a very happy user, could I recommend Jon Gotow's Sleeper (St.
Clair Software), now at V.2.0, and I think from memory up here at sumex in
config. (Normal disclaimers apply here!)
I've used Sleeper for 6 months, since v.1.1. This new version can replace
Energy Saver, and correctly sleep Energy Star monitors. In addition
Sleeper is a screen fader, and best of all perhaps it spins HD's down over
a wide range of times. Energy Saver used to bother me, even at v.1.2, and
Sleeper, with more features, and more user configurability, is a real
improvement. And the system doesn't go "Poop Poop Poop" when it wakes!
As for your real question, the one I'm not answering
'cause it's thetopic of threads running endlessly for years and years; the consensus such
as it is seems to say "shut down your computer if you're going to be away
>From it for more than 8 hrs or so."
It's a contest, IMO, between components like HD's and CRT's which don't
like to be shut down, yet wear out if they're on; and circuit board things
like capacitors which don't like changes of state, and should, if operating
at reasonable temperatures, be kept on.
You'll therefore extend the life of logic boards by keeping them on as much
as possible--oh, you want the fan on, fans are cheap and tend to last
forever, and offer the advantage of controlling temperature. A sleeping
monitor is in a very nice condition basically, it's at very low power but
not completely "off" (does anyone here know the exact details of this?)
One of the reasons I like Sleeper V.2 so much is that it lets the HD spin
down after as long as 3 hrs. If a machine is unused for that length of
time, it doesn't hurt much--given the modern mean time between failure for
drives--to have it spin down and save power.
But we haven't spoken of power supplies--on the old Macs I've known, that's
the item which fails first. Low power use not switched on/off too much is
the thing which occurs to me, so again sleep is good! But others will
think differently...
And we haven't spoken of thunderstorms. In a stormy city, my own Macs are
shut down each evening, with their power plugs out of the sockets. And the
phone wires to modems pulled at the wall. I find *I* sleep better that
way!
--Bill Stanford
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[email protected]
"Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs..."
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:45:47 +0100
From: "Adriano Santoni"
Subject: Smart text-searching utility wanted
Hello, Mac fanatics.
I am looking for a text-searching tool having the follwing features:
1. capable of searching inside a whole folder of files of any kind/size
2. allowing the user to quickly open (by double-clicking) any document wherein
the searched text has been found
3. consuming little memory
4. allowing the user to specify "wildcards" (ie, jolly characters) in search
patterns
5. not annoying the user with registration reminders, beeps, clicks, pop-up
messages and the like
6. with a neat interface, providing as much information as possible
7. fast
Does anybody know of such a thing? I have found something similar by myself,
but the stuff I have does not comply with all requirements 1 to 7. Thanks a
lot in advance for any direction.
Adriano Santoni
([email protected])
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 10:40:40 JST
From: [email protected] (Keith S. Wilkinson)
Subject: System 7.5.2 needed (Japanese -> English swap maybe?)
An acquaintance purchased a 7500/100 here in Japan, and it came with the
Japanese version of 7.5.2. He wants the English (US) version of 7.5.2. Apple
Japan apparently said that 7.5.2 was not an item that he could buy. Does
anyone have any suggestions?
Keith WILKINSON, Home e-mail: CompuServe 100207,710
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:32:11 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Unable to open SIT! files
Les Becker wrote:
>I find that,regardless of translator app used, I cannot decompress Mac
>Binary files with a SIT! prefix. e.g.
> SIT! frLau j
> SIT! n{rLau
"SIT!" as a prefix? Interesting: I've only seen it with a suffix, (e.g.
"filename.sit"). Try renaming the file so it has .sit as the suffix. To
follow your above examples (did they really come named that way?), rename
them as:
frLau j.sit
n{rLau.sit
...and then drag them on top of the StuffIt! icon. See if that works.
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 17:58:31 cdt
From: [email protected]
Subject: Where can I
Hey, my four year old and my seven year old got hand me down Mac
512's. I believe they are running os 5.3. I tried down loading some
stuff but it all took more ram and newer systems than the 512's have.
Where can I find a site that has education programs & games that will
run on a Mac 512.
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 23:32:43 +0100
From: [email protected] (Michael)
Subject: Word Eqn Editor question
Hi,
I used the Equation Editor of Word 5.1 with both the bitmap and the
TrueType versions of New Century Schoolbook installed.
When printing the document, the equations are too slanted, too italic.
This does not happen when I de-install the TrueType fonts and use only the
bitmap version (in this case the italics look fine).
Could it be that the (slow!) Equation Editor italizes the italic version of
the TrueType fonts (e.g. by bypassing the Font Manager?). How do I get rid
of the too italized printing problem? I would like to use the TrueType
version, since it looks better on the screen, when working with odd sizes
(e.g. 11 points).
Thanks,
Michael
([email protected])
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