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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 27 Mar 96 Volume 14 : Issue 74
Today's Topics:
(A) Weird problem in BBEdit
28.8k modems for 540c
7.5.3 & control panels
7.5.3, 8100, SD1.2.1, MSWord6.0.1, boom (Q)
7.5.3 upgrade? (R)
[A] Accessing Ethernet via AppleTalk?
[A] Eudora segmenting.
[A] FileList+ status
[A] Mac LC microphone on a LC475
[A] Parallel printer on a Mac
[Q] sound input on powermac 7500 (7.5.2)
A: Photoshop craches on PowerMac 7500
Anyone else lose their hard drive contents?
Apple LocalTalk Bridge
Appletalk games, DOS card, DOS floppy lockup
Can't put away the CD
Copland Question
Deleting files by single keypress
Duo keyboard misfires
Info-Mac Digest V14 #69
Keyboard Prooblem (sic)
More external colours for PB5300 (Q)
Need font manager recommendations
Network printing question
NowUtilites 3.0.1
Os upgrade
Phantom file trashed
Power Computing
Problems with 5300
QCAM problem
Ram Doubler and Modems
Sys 7.5.3 & MOM 4.2.1
System 7.5.3 (a.k.a. System Update 2.0) (C)
System 7.5.3 Update broke my keyboard
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:29:32 -0500
From: [email protected] (Peter J. Paul)
Subject: (A) Weird problem in BBEdit
> Bear with me - this is NOT simple. I have a power-mac (8500) with two
> physical disks. Both have fully bootable systems, and independant copies
> of some of my critical applications. A couple of weeks ago BBEdit
> (v3.1.1) started refusing to launch when the system had been booted from
> disk-A. It would start to load, then quit before getting its menu bar
> up. I would get an "Application unknown has unexpectedly quit because an
> error of Type 1 occurred" msg from the Finder.
I went through the EXACT same problem a few months ago, so IT IS
simple. The problem is caused by some Claris XTND extension in your Claris
Translators folder in your Claris folder in the System folder. There are 3
that are likely to cause the problem. It turned out to be the WordPerfect
2.x one for me. I'm sorry that recall the other two, but Bare Bones can
give you that info if you need.
Hold down the SHIFT key when launching BBEdit and that will
temporarily disable the XTND translators. You will now be able to run
BBEdit from disk-A. By changing the preferences (EDIT:PREFERENCES:SERVICES)
you can permanently turn off the Claris XTND translators, but removing the
WordPerfect 2.x one might be all you need.
BTW-I understand the problem is resolved in BBEdit 3.5 (but I still
use v3.1.1). Also, the problem occurred on my 7100 just after I upgraded
some Claris products, so I assume new versions of translators did me in.
>
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:04:10 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: 28.8k modems for 540c
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #68, [email protected] (Simon Avery) wrote
> I've got a friend with a powerbook 540c who wants to get a 28.8k
>internal modem. He's been told that they're not available. Does anyone
>know any differently? What about modem PCMICA cards? Thanks!
Simon, this is correct. He can get a Global Village Mercury at 19.2, or an
Express II at 14.4, but that's it. And neither of these is to be
recommended as such.
There are no 28.8's now, and it's very unlikely there'll be one in the
future. It's a pest of course, unless you have Ethernet, which frees up
your one serial port for an external 28.8--I have a GV Teleport Platinum,
which I love, but I have to sleep and hot swap to use our networked
printer...
The TDK 28.8 PC card is a good one, but your friend should wait for the
Rev. C PC cage which will be out in a couple of weeks--the earlier cages
tended to eat batteries for breakfast...
Hope this helps...
--Bill Stanford||[email protected]--
"Men build scales, but the Gods blow upon the lighter pan"--(Wolfe)
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:59:42 -0600
From: [email protected] (Andrew Vernon)
Subject: 7.5.3 & control panels
On Fri, 22 Mar 96, Noam Kutler said:
>I did a custom installation of system 7.5.3 on my 68040 mac. Now I'm
>having three main problems
>1) my system crashes alot more often than when I had system 7.5.1
Whenever a new system update comes out, I always recommend re-installing
the base system software, then updating the virgin installation. It's
overkill, yes, but in most cases, it is also instant joy.
>2) about every other time my control panels doesn't read in my apple menu
>where I use NOW Menus to read my menus it just says that my control
>panels folder is empty but then when I go into my system folder and
>actually activate a control panel it then usually is displayed in my menu.
>3) on my PowerBook 5300cs my computer will not restart with extensions
>enabled. What might the problem be (I did an easy install on this one)
Two sounds like Apple Menu Options and Now Menus are battling for control
of your Apple Menu. You can use one or the other, but not both. Also, be
sure you're using Now Utilities 5.0.2 or (when it comes out) 6.0 to ensure
compatability with the newest Macs and system releases (example: Super
Boomerang 4.0.2 breaks under System 7.5.1-7.5.3, while the 5.0.x releases
work just fine).
Three can be a conflict between Now Startup Manager and Apple's Extensions
Manager. Again, choose one and let it be the sole extension switching
utility you use. You may also just have to toss whichever extension
switcher you're using (and its preference files) and install a fresh copy.
Try removing your extension switcher and moving extensions between their
enabled/disabled folders by hand.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:22:19 -0600
From: [email protected] (Larry Pickett)
Subject: 7.5.3, 8100, SD1.2.1, MSWord6.0.1, boom (Q)
I just completed applying the upgrade 2 and then Speed Doubler update
1.2.1. Everything seemed fine until I started MSWord up via MicroSoft
Office 4.2.1. It opened fine on a new document but when I tried to open an
existing document the system froze. I was able to repeat the sequence
everytime. I rebuilt the desktop, disabled SD and Ram doubler but MSW
still wouldn't work. I used the extension to go back to a System 7.5.3
configuration only but then MSW wouldn't open complaining that Microsoft
OLE2 wasn't available. I turned back on all extensions etc that seemed
relevant to Microsoft products but the error continued.
I finally went back to the origional system configuration which I had made
a copy of and everything works. Anyone have any insight?
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 10:03:54 CST
From: Pat Ullmann
Subject: 7.5.3 upgrade? (R)
>From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
>Subject: Give me some reasons _not_ to upgrade from 7.1.1 to 7.5.3
>
>I have a PB 540, 12/340/RAM Doubler, running the 7.1.1 that came with it. I
>keep hearing that 7.5.3 is the greatest thing since sliced bread and am
>tempted to make the upgrade. However, some of my favorite utilities may no
If your system's running good and you're happy with it, then for heaven's
sake don't upgrade it. As everyone on this list already is aware (;)), my
experience is that 7.1.x is much more stable than 7.5.x. (And I'm not alone
in this opinion.) I haven't installed Update 2.0 yet, still watching the
bug reports and so on to see if it's going to help or make things worse.
Obviously, some folks' experience differs from mine. But the only reason
I would voluntarily put 7.5.anything on a machine is if it is already
experiencing a lot of system-related problems or if you have a particular
need for the new features (some very nice, I admit).
I would do the update to 7.1.2, though.
All IMO, of course.
Pat
Pat Ullmann ([email protected])
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:20:16 +0100
From: [email protected] (Javier Pedreira)
Subject: [A] Accessing Ethernet via AppleTalk?
In Info-Mac V14 #73 Jon Stewart asked:
>I have just linked our three lab Macintoshes (7100, Performa 6218CD and SE)
>and a LaserWriter Select 360 via AppleTalk with no trouble. No more
>sneakernet! Unfortunately, only the 7100 is connected to our campus
>EtherNet. Is there a way for the other two computers access to the
>EtherNet (and, ultimately the Internet) via the 7100's connection, or must
>I buy EtherNet cards for the other two machines as well?
You can solve your problem by installing an software router in the 7100.
Apple sells one, and as far as I can remember, it isn't expensive. The
downside to this is that you'll exact a performance penalty in the 7100
since all network traffic from and to the other two machines and the
printer has to pass through the router. And you'll have to have the 7100 on
at all times (at least when you want the other machines to reach the
ethernet network).
Another possibility is an hardawre device like those sold by Asante, which
let you connect a certain number of LocalTalk devices to an ethernet
network. They're more expensive than Apple's solution, but you'll probably
get better performance (I can't be sure, since I've never used one of them)
and you don't have to have the 7100 on for this to work.
Hope this helps,
Wicho
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:36:45 +0000
From: [email protected] (Quentin North)
Subject: [A] Eudora segmenting.
It seems that Eudora Lite uses the old Mac TextEdit routines which handle a
maximum of 32K of text at a time in a single window, consequently Eudora
segments the mails into 32K chunks if they exceed this size.
It is possible to select all the segments (using shift-click in the InBox
windows) and save these to a single file which does create a single message
in the file.
Eudora Pro does not have this problem and this may be an incentive to upgrade.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:42:22 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected] (F. Neumann)
Subject: [A] FileList+ status
> I've just been trying out Bill Patterson's FileList+ to catalogue my
> heap of floppies. The documentation (from 1992) says that Bill was
> hoping to go commercial with the program, but the email address given
> doesn't work.
>
> So does anyone know if the program did go commercial, possibly changing
> its name in the process, or if there's a more recent version than
> 1.0b21?
I am also using FileList+, and I haven't been able to get in touch with
its author. To my knowledge no final version was ever released. Too bad,
because I've tried several floppy cataloguers from Info-Mac, and, IMHO,
none comes near FileList+ in terms of speed, flexibility, power, and
economical disk and RAM usage.
--
Florin Neumann
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:36:50 +0000
From: [email protected] (Glenn R. Howes) (by way of
[email protected] (Quentin North))
Subject: [A] Mac LC microphone on a LC475
>I recently upgraded my cpu from a old Mac LC to a Mac LC 475. I retained
>the original screen, keyboard, mouse and microphone. The snag I have is
>that the LC microphone does not appear to work with the LC 475. I have
>checked that the LC 475 works with an ordinary mic which it does, although
>the audio level seems low.
>
>Is there a way to make the old Mac LC mic work with the LC 475 or is there
>an alternative solution that gives as much gain and is as pleasing on the
>eye?
I'm afraid that you will have to go to the added expense of getting
a new Plaintalk microphone. The new digitizing hardware expects signal
to come in from a "line level" source and will not work properly without
it. The new microphone plugs are longer from preventing you from
accidently using the old style omni-directional microphones.
--glenn
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:20:25 +0100
From: [email protected] (Javier Pedreira)
Subject: [A] Parallel printer on a Mac
On Info-Mac V14 #73 Paul Mullen asked:
> Is it possible to connect a parallel printer made for a PeeCee to a
>Mac? I have a customer with an Epson LX-810 (?) dot matrix printer who is
>in need of a computer upgrade. I'd love to sell her a Mac (she's currently
>using an old DOS box), but she doesn't wish to replace her Epson, as it's
>not too old and in decent shape still. Is this possible, and if so
>approximately how much would it cost? Thanks in advance!
Try PowerPrint from GDT SoftWorks (604/291-9121). I think it lists for
about $150 and supports tons of PC printers (though it doesn't support
PostScript).
Hope this helps,
Wicho
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:27:26 -0500
From: "David P. Baker"
Subject: [Q] sound input on powermac 7500 (7.5.2)
hi. we recently got several new powermac 7500s in our lab, and our lab program
is now no longer able to record from the microphone. i wrote the following
test program, which opens the recording device and continually outputs the
volume level. on my quadra 660av (7.5.1) at home, it works fine. on our
powermac 6100 (7.1.2) it also works. but on the 7500s runnning 7.5.2,
although there were no error codes (all 0), the input level stays firmly at
0. i have the input device set correctly to external microphone, and other
sound input programs work fine on the new machines. can anyone figure out why
the following code doesn't work on them? thanks in advance.
david
---begin code ---
#include
#include
void main() {
long devNum;
short level;
OSErr err;
printf("opening device: err = %d\n",
err=SPBOpenDevice(NULL,siWritePermission,&devNum));
if(!err)
{
SPB spb;
spb.inRefNum=devNum;
spb.bufferPtr=NULL;
spb.completionRoutine=NULL;
spb.interruptRoutine=NULL;
spb.unused1=NULL;
printf("starting recording: err = %d\n",err=SPBRecord(&spb,TRUE));
if(!err)
{
while(!Button()&&!err)
{
OSErr err=SPBGetRecordingStatus(devNum,NULL,&level,
NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL);
printf("\rlevel = %3d err = %d",level,err);
}
printf("\nstopping recording: err = %d\n",
SPBStopRecording(devNum));
}
printf("closing device: err = %d\n",SPBCloseDevice(devNum));
}
}
---end code---
-+- David P. Baker * [email protected] * http://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~dpb/ -+-
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:52:03 -0800
From: John Collins
Subject: A: Photoshop craches on PowerMac 7500
Question:
From: [email protected] (Kauko Saarinen)
Subject: Photoshop craches on PowerMac 7500
Fellow netters,
Photoshop 3.0.5 on a brand new PowerMac 7500/100 with 32Mb memory and
1Gb
disk frequently craches. System level is 7.5.1, Finnish system and
Open
Transport 1.0.8.
Often it appears to be a Finder error, sometimes Photoshop one.
I had a discussion with a local printing house. They admitted to have
similiar problems with PowerMacs 8500 & 9500 but they said that
Photoshop
is working well on an older PowerMac 8100.
Any ideas. Will this bug be fixed with the System 2.0 update?
Thanks in advance,
=========================
Answer:
I had a lot of similar problems using Photoshop 3.05 on my PCI Mac
until I removed all of the outdated third party filters. Now it's
solid as a rock.
--
[email protected]
John Collins
Newport Beach, CA
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:03:54 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: Anyone else lose their hard drive contents?
In Info Mac Digest V14 #66, Bret Aarden wrote
>Something went through my hard drive late Saturday/early Sunday and wiped
>out pretty much everything that wasn't running at the time. (The data
>wasn't actually overwritten, though.) The applications that were 'busy'
>are still there as well as a couple subsidiary files like my Normal
>template in Word. All other directories and files were wiped.
>
>Could this have been a virus? A recent virus-checker found nothing. Has
>anybody else had this problem?
Bret, a virus is the last thing in recent months. Just running "normal"
software from reputable shops can do this in the right (wrong!)
combination...
You don't say anything about your system. Could I take a guess and say
that you were running some combination of Stacker, RAMDoubler,
SpeedDoubler, Norton's FileSaver, Quickeys, Suitcase, After Dark, and Word
5 or 6 was open when it all happened...
If you've got backups, great! Format your drive (get Silverlining or Hard
Disk ToolKit first if it's SCSI, or Drive Setup 1.0.4 if IDE), reinstall
software from scratch (top copies of System, extensions and apps). Think
very carefully about whether you really need anything you put back: for
instance, read the screensaver FAQ if you can get it, as it points out that
these things are pretty much unnecessary these days... It you've been
using Stacker or RAMDoubler, consider a bigger drive or more RAM, because
while these things work, they destabilize...
good luck!
--Bill Stanford||[email protected]--
"Men build scales, but the Gods blow upon the lighter pan"--(Wolfe)
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:31:13 GMT
From: "Randall C Scutt, Computer Assistant, Troy, NY "
(Randall C. Scutt)
Subject: Apple LocalTalk Bridge
We physically reconfigured our Mac's (14 of them, System 7.5.1) and
printers (3 Laserwriters, 1 HP650C plotter, and Kodak ColorEase) to use an
Ethernet connection rather than LocalTalk, and are running Apple LocalTalk
Bridge on a dedicated Mac IICX server. Everything was great until we added
2 PowerMac 8500's and 7.5.3 to these 2 PowerMacs. Now, any application
that I run (particularly those that check over the network for duplicate
license numbers, i.e., Adobe Illustrator, DeltaGraph) will constantly
bomb/freeze, giving system errors 1, 10, and 11 (BTW, they work fine when I
pull the network connector). After numerous checks with Apple, they
advised that LocalTalk Bridge is incompatible with PCI/Open Transport and
PowerMacs 7200, 8100, 8500, 9500.
Rather than rewire back to LocalTalk, does anybody know of a fix or other
software? Apple said that LocalTalk Bridge is on the back burner for
further development. TIA.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 18:03:25 CST
From: [email protected] (Rick VanDerveer)
Subject: Appletalk games, DOS card, DOS floppy lockup
>Could somebody update me on which games (commercial, shareware, freeware) are
>available for the MAC allowing two or more player mode using Appltalk.
>I know of the obvious ones, like Spectre VR and Links Pro and Bolo. Are there
>any other?
Check out my web page at:
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~drv766/netgames.html
For all the known (to me, that is) network games for the macintosh.
Includes where to get 'em, shareware or commercial, what kind of networks
are supported, and related links!
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:03:49 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: Can't put away the CD
In Info Mac Digest V14 #66, [email protected] (Kazuhiko Ikebe) wrote:
>I can't put away my Performa CD from my desktop because everytime I drag the
CD
>to the trash, I get an "Error -50". Can anyone tell me what this error
means?
Kazu, "Error in user parameter list" is the cryptic comment I've got in my
error list, which will point to the CD being assigned a user number the Mac
can't understand. This usually means a broken driver, so for starters try
trashing and reinstalling the CD software. It's at version 5.1.5 now from
memory; so it's worth getting the new software (from support.apple.com if
you can get past the Update 2 crowd;-) if you haven't got it.
[This bit of advice would apparently be invalid if you were running DOS
CD's on a 6100. But we're doing fine with 5.1.5 on a couple of plain Mac
systems.]
If this doesn't work, a clean system install plus the new drivers will do
the trick. Details on clean installs should be in the Troubleshooting
guide which came with your Mac...
good luck!
--Bill Stanford||[email protected]--
"Men build scales, but the Gods blow upon the lighter pan"--(Wolfe)
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:20:01 -0500
From: Chris Gervais
Subject: Copland Question
After reading all the articles about Copland and new Macintosh hardware =
designs, I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping someone out there =
has the answer to.
Apple has stated the Copland will be a disk-based operating system, =
using a shared library scheme to manage its code and eliminate the need =
for a ROM containing the Mac Toolbox routines. It has also been stated =
that Mac clones will not requires a ROM socket (check out the latest =
issue of MacUser).
There may be obvious answers to these questions, but here goes:
1) How will Macintoshes, running Copland on a ROM-less machine, support =
booting from a floppy with most of its facilities available (i.e. for =
Norton Disk Doctor HD fixes, Speed Disk optimization, disinfecting =
viruses, etc.)? One of the hallmarks of the Mac is that in an emergency, =
you can boot off a 1.4MB floppy and still have most of the OS available =
(unlike Win95 booting to DOS in emergencies).
2) Wouldn't a fully disk-based OS be slower than one with parts of =
itself in a ROM chip? Even though Apple's ROMs were never blazingly =
fast, a ROM chip would seem faster than a hard disk.
If anyone has an idea of what will happen, please reply to me personally =
and I will summarize to the digest.
TIA,
Chris G.
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:45:54 -0500
From: [email protected] (Dana S. Nau)
Subject: Deleting files by single keypress
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:41:55 -0800
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Deleting files by single keypress
Adriano Santoni wrote:
>1) Wouldn't it be much easier to be able to DELETE any file by simply pressing
> a key? (eg ). Does anybody know of an extension, init, patch, add-on,
There are several freeware extensions that provide this capability. The
one I use is the "Secret Finder Features" extension, which is available
>From the info-mac archives.
--
Prof. Dana Nau | Email: [email protected]
Department of Computer Science, | Phone: (301) 405-2684
and Institute for Systems Research | Fax: (301) 405-6707
U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 | URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:31:37 -0800 (PST)
From: "John B. Thoo"
Subject: Duo keyboard misfires
Hello, y'all! I have Duo 270c. The keys on the keyboard have always
required a heavier hand to use than most others, but I didn't mind that.
Recently (in the last few weeks), however, the "O" key would often need
several presses to work; then the space bar needed the same; and now the
"S" key is the worst of all! It's coming to the point where I just want
to throw my Duo against the wall!
I seem to recall having read long ago something about a "case stiffener"
fix for this problem ... something about a Rev D or Rev E keyboard?
Could someone please elaborate on this? What is the fix? How much is it?
Can I mail my Duo into Apple (there's no authorized repair facility
within 50 miles)? Is the fix free (covered under some sort of "extended
warranty" since this seems like a "manufacturing defect")?
If you post your reponse, please also cc me at mailto:[email protected].
Thanks!
--John.
http://math.ucdavis.edu/~jb2/freespeech.html
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 09:58:55 -0600
From: chazl
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #69
"W. R. Wing" sez:
>Boot from Disk A and copies of BBEDit on *either* A or B would refuse to
>launch. Boot from B and I could run it from either disk! I tried
>replacing (both serially and en-mass) the System file, the Finder, the
>system enabler, the BBEdit preferences file, the BBEdit PowerPC extension,
>and my Fonts folder. The situation was unchanged if I booted with
>extensions disabled. I decided it MUST be something subtle associated with
>the system on Disk A, so this morning I finlly updated the system on A to
>7.5.3.
I would imagine that it is something subtle with the System on Disk A;
however, in order to clear it up, you will need to perform a "clean
install" on Disk A. Do not update the System Folder you have there;
delete it and reinstall from scratch.
As a test, you could disable the System Folder on Disk A by renaming it
to something like "Old, Icky System Folder" and then moving its Finder
into a subfolder [either an existing one or a newly created one]. Then,
copy the System Folder from Disk B over to Disk A and see if the problem
persists.
In my experience, when one is experiencing strange problems that are
apparently related to the System, it is *much* more efficient and
successful to completely replace the affected System installation, rather
than attempt to repair it.
chazl
03.26.96
-------
------------------------------
Date: 27 Mar 96 04:35:31 -0800
From: "Matthew Lasater"
Subject: Keyboard Prooblem (sic)
>I'm using an Apple Adjustable Keyboard (just 2 years old) and I've tried
>cleaning it with compressed air. It's no better.
-----
Keystroke skipping and doubling is a known problem with the Apple
Adjustable Keyboards. (Does anyone know if that's why they were
discontinued?) They are generally not reparable, because the keyswitches
cannot be replaced.
The only way to get one now (as far as I could find) is through Apple
service, so the price will be absurd.
One warning: If you consider replacing it with an AppleDesign keyboard,
_please_please_please_ be sure you try one first! To me, the AppleDesign
keyboard feels so horrible that it's torture to use one -- and my typing
speed goes down noticeably, my error rate goes up, and the pain in my hands
and arms increases substantially, compared to when I use an Apple
Adjustable Keyboard. The AppleDesign keyboard's keyswitches are also not
replaceable. I _strongly_ recommend paying nearly double the price (it's
easily worth it) for an Apple Extended Keyboard II (which _does_ have
replaceable keyswitches, and you probably won't need to replace any
anyway). [Keyswitch replaceability information from Apple service
providors.]
Also-- I you do take your keyboard in for service, be warned that Computer
City Service opens _all_ replacement merchandise before giving it to the
customer. Funny, a vendor could just pull a trashed demo off the floor and
put it in a box if the box is opened anyway, couldn't they? They one I got
had a numeric/function section that was so yellowed as to appear smoke
damaged and was also non-functioning. Oh-- and they took from August to
January to give me that.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:48:08 +0100
From: [email protected] (Johan Swahn)
Subject: More external colours for PB5300 (Q)
I may have understood this incorrectly, but I have thought that it would be
possible to upgrade the 256-colour external display card inside the PB 5300
series to cards that would support larger screens and/or more colours. I
have so far seen no such cards on the market.
Has anyone else seen such products?
Best regards,
Johan Swahn ([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:36:51 -0500
From: [email protected] (Meg Zabriskie)
Subject: Need font manager recommendations
I have a new 7000/90 and a bunch of fonts (90 suitcases + 95 PostScript
fonts) which cause applications to load too slowly. I routinely use only
a few of these fonts but am not prepared to dump the others; I'm not even
familiar with a great many of them yet. I could just disable them with
Conflict Catcher, but that means restarting to gain access (doesn't
it?). Similarly , I could print samples of each with the Type Book for
reference, but this also seems unwieldy. Is these something that would
give me easier access and display options? What are people's impressions
of the new release of Suitcase? Of TypeTamer? How do they compare, and
do they run smoothly on 7.5.3? Email appreciated. Thanks for any info.
Meg Zabriskie
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:44:17 -0500
From: Art Werschulz
Subject: Network printing question
Hi.
We have an ethernet LAN, consisting of
several Unix boxes
an IBM PC clone (386)
a Mac IIci, running System 7.5
(the Mac was just recently added).
We have a couple of PostScript laser printers, each attached to one of
the Unix boxes. Said Unix boxes have given permission to the Mac to
use them for remote printing.
What must I do (from the Mac) side to allow the Mac to print to one of
these printers? Please note that the printers are *not* directly on
the ethernet LAN.
Thanks.
--
Art Werschulz ([email protected])
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:03:58 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: NowUtilites 3.0.1
In Info Mac Digest V14 #66 [email protected] wrote in a post mainly about PPP:
>I am using NowUtilites 3.0.1 and I am very
>dissappointed in it. When running its conflict catching, it turns of
>INITS that have been marked as required and flips grouped INTS to
>conflicting INITS and vice versa.
Patrick, not addressing your PPP issue (except to say: re-read Al Bloom's
post in the above issue, and go back to MacTCP 2.06 for a bit until the
smoke clears;-) ...
... but could I say that Now Utils are now at 5.0.2 (!) with version 6
coming out.
Conflict catching under 7.5.x is working nicely for me under the current
version. As I remember, and it's a _long_ way back, 3.0.1 was buggy, we
went to 3.0.2 fairly quickly... Though the surprise would really be that
anything that old is working at all...
good luck...
--Bill Stanford||[email protected]--
"Men build scales, but the Gods blow upon the lighter pan"--(Wolfe)
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:13:59 -0700
From: [email protected] (Neil Fiertel)
Subject: Os upgrade
I've been waiting for commentary from those who have installed the upgrade
to 7.5.3 I have heard all sorts of horror stories and read a few on the
www but have not seen anything yea or nay on the subject here. Any
comments? What about the memory leak and ramdoubler problems? How about
the upgrade not finding all the inits to upgrade? I heard so many iffy
rumours and met a few of them first hand from friends, I frankly dropped
the file into the trash before I burned my hard drive with it... to bad it
was not as easy as the 7.5.1 install which was perfectly easy and safe to
install...feedback to me by E mail and on the info Mac for others would be
appreciated ..Thanks in advance.
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 08:28:05 EST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Phantom file trashed
First I want to thank everyone who offered solutions about how to trash a
phantom file
or file-from hell called "Temp SD Copy File".
Secondly, I wanted to let anyone who is interested know that
the"Temp SD Copy File" that was giving me problems before is a file created by
the
Speed Disk utility of Norton Utilities. It is, I understand, only created by
Speed Disk if you happen to run Norton DiskLock while you are optimizing your
disk.
Definitely not the thing to do! But sometimes one forgets!!
Anyway, the thing to do if this file appears, as I found out from one of the
technical
support people at Symantec, is unprotect the disk, which will allow the
file-from-hell to be trashed, then reprotect the disk, and reboot.
Of course, the easiest way to prevent the file-from-hell from appearing in the
first
place is to be sure not to run any disk locking utilities while you are trying
to
optimize your hard drive. :/ Dennis Perzanowski
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:34:13 +0000
From: Lawrence Rugolo
Subject: Power Computing
On Sat, 23 Mar 1996 Mike Blackwell quoted Greg :
>Does anyone in this group have any experience with Power Computing products?
and replied:
> I use a Power 100 at work (16/1G/7.5.2). No complaints. I really don't even
> think about it as a clone: it looks and feels just like a real Mac.
...to which I can add:
I use a PowerMac 9500/132 with 144MB of Ram in my University office and a
PowerWave 604/132 with 32MB of RAM at home. I can't tell any difference between
the two. They both run the same system (7.5.3) and applications equally well.
Larry Rugolo
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:50:45 -0600
From: [email protected] (Ing. Fermin Revueltas Rodriguez)
Subject: Problems with 5300
Hi Macfriends:
A friend that alwasy has been a PC user, decided to buy a PowerBook 5300,
because he find (finally) that the mac is much better than his PC with
windows95, great you say; well no.
When he received the powerbook he was very excited, but the machine was
acting very strange and frustating, no matter what progam he use it,
aventually will bomb almost every bomb was with an error 3 (illegal
instruction I think) and this happen even without extensions.
When the update for 7.5.2 was put on the net, I rush to get it thinking
that was the solution to my problems, but not.
The problems are very weird, for instance, when you double click a file
with a creator that is no in the powerbook you know that the easy open would
take care; but here a have a message that say CHK error on the finder. This
was before I rebuild the desktop, after that there was no message the
machine only freeze.
I have no clue norton 3.1 say nothing, and every other program say the
same, I check the machine with everything I can think of, but no luck.
Please help me, is very frustating and annoying
Fermin Revueltas [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:39:24 +0900
From: [email protected] (John Boyle)
Subject: QCAM problem
I need your help. My Quick Cam won't work with my Powerbook 540c (12MB RAM,
System 7.5 Kanji Talk). I get a black line going across the screen, for
both the movie and snapshot functions. I have tried all of the following,
either written in the manual or suggested by the Connectix distributor in
Japan or thought of by myself, none of which have worked:
-purchased and tried the adaptor cable
-turned off everything except the system (7.5J) and QCAM using the
Extensions Manager
-turned off Apple Talk
-kept the image at the smallest size
-used the internal mike, not the QCAM mike
-tried a slow frame rate
-avoided moving the mouse while using QCAM
-QCAM is the only application open
-kept a floppy disk in the drive
-changed the screen to a lower resolution, or B/W
Thank you in advance.
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:21:17 +1100
From: [email protected] (Jonathan Massy-Greene)
Subject: Ram Doubler and Modems
G'day all,
This problem has probably been addressed before but I am recent newbie to
Mac (I saw the light and left PC).
I have a 6200 with Ram DOubler installed and a Banksia 28.8 modem. Anytime
I want to use the modem I have to have Ram Doubler turned off, as it
occasionally drops the connection or at the very least will drop the
transfer rates to around 200 bps. This means I am having to use Virtual
Memory which is slowing it up a little but would prefer to put my hard
earnt money to work.
Can someone help with a solution or at the least tell me there is nothing I
can do.
Thanks,
Jono
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:43:17 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected] (F. Neumann)
Subject: Sys 7.5.3 & MOM 4.2.1
> Hooray! For the first time in a week, my office Mac (Q650/PPC Card with
> newly installed 7.5.3 *easy* install) didn't crash on shutdown with the
> odd message that application unknown died via a Type 3 error. It is nice
> to not have to reach around back to the power switch.
Allan, if you're doing that all the time your Mac is not going to have a
long and happy life. You shouldn't reboot by turning it off/on from the
power switch; rather you should do it with the Reset button or with the
Cmd-Ctrl-Power On keyboard combination, depending on your Mac. In fact
Apple recommends not to turn your Mac off if you're going to use it
again in the next eight hours. Turning the Mac on and off repeatedly is
a sure way to hasten the demise of its delicate electronic entrails
(sheer poetry, eh?
).--
Florin Neumann
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:01:15 -0500
From: [email protected] (Randall Meadows)
Subject: System 7.5.3 (a.k.a. System Update 2.0) (C)
On 3/25/96 at 6:21 PM, The Info-Mac Moderators wrote:
> Just to let people know about some of the problems I've encountered with
> System 7.5.3 (on a Centris 650 16/500):
>
> AutoDoubler
> ===========
>
> Looks like 7.5.3 isn't too compatible with AutoDoubler (part of
>DiskDoubler
> Pro 1.1), especially if you have General Controls installed. I've had to
> delete a load of files and uncompress everything on my hard disk, then
> remove AutoDoubler, in order to get a stable system.
I've been having very strange problems, too, but only on my PowerWave (PCI)
Mac at home, not on my 8100/100 AV at work. I think I've narrowed to AD,
but only sometimes. I _think_ that it happens when AD goes into auto mode,
and there's nothing remaining to be compressed, then it locks up. But I
haven't been able to confirm this. Is this the type of problem you've been
having?
But like I said, none of this happens on the 8100, and I've got a lot more
cra--I mean extensions on it than the PowerWave.
Could you elaborate on your problems?
> General Controls
> ================
>
> Despite Apple rewriting it, it's still _evil_.
Here, too, could you elaborate? I haven't noticed a conflict here, but
perhaps this is my missing link.
Thanks...
Randall B Meadows * Software Engineer and Bug-Finder Extraordinaire
FGM, Inc. * 131 Elden Street, Suite 308 * Herndon, VA 22070
email: [email protected] * Voice: (703) 478-9881 * Fax: -9883
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:59:12 -0500 (EST)
From: AHROONWA%[email protected]
Subject: System 7.5.3 Update broke my keyboard
I have just installed System 7.5 Update 2.0 on a PowerMac 8100/100 and a
PowerMac 7100/66. The 8100 had no problems other than having to reinstall
Pathworks for Macintosh (which I had to do after Update 1.0. The latest update
broke my keyboard on the 7100. (Older system on a removable still works.) Any
suggestions. Reply directly as I'd rather not wait for the digest.
Bill Ahroon
[email protected]
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