Info-Mac Digest V14 #111
Posted: May 13th, 1996, 4:00 am
Date: Mon, 13 May 96 12:15:13 PDT
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 13 May 96 Volume 14 : Issue 111
Today's Topics:
(Q) Netscape Problem
--STARTUP SCREENS--
7.5.3 Conflict with Print Shop Deluxe?
[Q] Apple Menu Options CP freezes my MAC
[Q] Disk First Aid errors
[Q] Terminal Like Mail Program?
[Q]ZTerm 1.01 can't do AT commands to USR Sporster 28.8 modem
Audio CDs on 7200
audio stuff
Communigator?
Dataproducts LZR 1580 & print spooler problem
Eudora questions: Posting to Newsgroups; Setting Distribution
Follow-up: cross-platform disk-spanning
generic large icons
GIF/JPEG Display Shareware
Help with Creatix 28.8 Modem & Faxing...
how do we find "net clock" for Mac
Info-Mac Digest V14 #109 (2 msgs)
Internet Config & System 7.5.3 (Q)
Modem can't use the ModemPort
Modem Script
postscript program
PowerMac Recall???
Preformatted Macintosh Diskettes
Problems Downloading Netscape Update
Problem with Style Writer 1200
Recommendations for color laser printers?
SCSC id Problems!
SE/30 video repaired
Shutdown/Restart don't work under 7.5.3 on a MacIIsi
Simple Player
SUMMARY: Mac and Win95 w/Unix Server
Syquest EZ135 vs. Zip
T-shirts
Thank You, all
Upgrading LW320's RAM
URGENT!!!
Using two servers
Weird beeping on startup problem?
Why keep files as Binhex .hqx
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 16:54:06 -0800
From: [email protected] (Greg Lyzenga)
Subject: (Q) Netscape Problem
I've got a question about Netscape that has been bothering me for a while
now. I gather that since I'm an academic user (i.e. non-paying), I'm not
entitled to direct tech support from Netscape, however I hope somebody here
will recognize my problem and be able to help.
Simply put, I can not get Netscape versions later than 2.0 to recognize any
URL beginning with "gopher://". Version 2.0 works fine, but neither 2.01
nor 2.02 seem to be able to recognize gopher.
Is this just a configuration problem of which I am unaware, or is it a bona
fide bug? [Or an advanced "feature"?
] Thanks for any advice.
P.S. Thanks to everybody who responded to my previous question about
repairing old Macs; I decided to give Sun Remarketing a try...
Gregory A. Lyzenga Dept. of Physics, Harvey Mudd College
http://www.physics.hmc.edu/profs/lyzenga.html
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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 22:01:59 +0000
From: Dethstar
Subject: --STARTUP SCREENS--
Please take a second and visit Startup Central for all of your Macintosh
startup screen needs. We are located at
http://www.global2000.net/evergreen/startup. Please feel free to link
where appropriate!
Thanks!
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Date: 9 May 1996 05:21:55 GMT
From: [email protected] (Frank R Petroski)
Subject: 7.5.3 Conflict with Print Shop Deluxe?
I installed 7.5.3 on my Performa 630-CD (8MB RAM, 230MB IDE HD). We quickly
discovered that Print Shop Deluxe will not print calendars and posters.
The behavior, summarized quicky, is that a blank page is printed (under
print preview on the HP spooler it also displays a blank page), and even
more surprising, after the print command is completed, the document window
itself is also blank, with the exception of a single character in the middle
of the page that looks like an upper left corner box drawing character.
This same behavior also happens with the color stylewriter printer selected,
so I don't think it's an HP deskjet driver problem. I have an HP550C, and the
latest version of the HP drivers.
This all worked fine under 7.5.1
Anyone else see this? Any suggestions (other than drop back to 7.5.1?).
Oh, the problem happens under open transport as well as the old mactcp setup.
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Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 12:22:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (Robert George Daniel)
Subject: [Q] Apple Menu Options CP freezes my MAC
I hadn't opened the Apple Menu Options Control Panel since shortly
after it was installed, and it worked fine then. Now, every time I
attempt to open it, my PowerMac 7100/66 freezes immediately.
I tried trashing the preferences file, eliminating 3rd party extensions
and control panels, and with/without RamDoubler, but still the freeze.
Even re-installed just the control panel from the 7.5.1 CD. MacTools reports
no problems with my Hard Drive.
Freezes in general seem on the rise lately, and I'm poised to install
7.5.3, but maybe this is something specific that others have encountered?
Thanks in advance,
Bob. [email protected] http://www.inforamp.net/~rgd
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:13:36 +0100
From: [email protected] (John Latimer)
Subject: [Q] Disk First Aid errors
I was just doing some house-keeping on my Mac after repeated crashes with
Stuffit Expander with Expander Enhancer (which I removed and reinstalled).
I rebuilt the desktop and ran Norton Utilities for Macintosh 2.0, which
found a few minor problems with dropped bundle bits etc, which it repaired
to its satisfaction, and now reports that the hard disk is fine. I then
rebuilt the desktop. However, when I run Apple's Disk First Aid, it
reports:
-Checking disk "Barney's Rubble".
-Checking disk volume.
-Checking extent BTree.
-Checking extent file.
-Checking catalog BTree.
-Checking catalog file.
-Problem: Invalid PEOF, 40331, 637
-Rechecking catalog file.
-Test done. Problems were found, but Disk First Aid cannot repair them.
(This was still the case when my internal HD was not used as the start up disk)
These errors are not listed in MacErrors 2.0; what do they mean and do I
need to worry about them!? I'm not having any other problems at the moment
that I am aware of. If I do need to fix them, how do I go about it? Will
upgrading to NUM 3.1 or 3.2 help?
(System info: PB145 8/250, FWB HD v 1.6.0, System 7.5.3, Disk First Aid 7.2.2)
Many TIA for any help.
John Latimer
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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 00:31:47 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling"
Subject: [Q] Terminal Like Mail Program?
I'm the computer coordinator for a small private school in Central New York,
and we've been running a combination of AIMS and Eudora Light in order to
provide our students and staff with email. It's all been running pretty
well except for the problem that a lot of people, no matter how many times
you tell them, don't seem to grasp the concept that it's not enough to
merely close your Eudora window when you finish reading your mail on a
public machine, but you *have to actually quit the application*.
As a result, I've been wondering...is there any software out there that
would allow us to set up a mail system similar to the way I'm used to doing
it through my shell account...that is that they open an application to log
into *their* disk space on the mail server, and when they close that window,
everything goes back to normal?
What I really would've loved would be to find some local third party
provider that everyone could just telnet over to, then I'd be out of the
loop of having to administer the mail system *and* those of us who had other
kinds of access could also read our mail at home. But, alas, it works out
that running AIMS off of one of the library Macs is *soooo* much cheaper.
Thanks in advance for any help.
keg
* [email protected] I've got plenty of opinions. Just ask my wife! *
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:22:51 -0400
From: [email protected] (Jim McClellan)
Subject: [Q]ZTerm 1.01 can't do AT commands to USR Sporster 28.8 modem
I cannot get ZTerm v1.01 to work with a brand new US Robotics 28.8
modem. Whenever I "dial" from the menu, the ATDT string is ignored.
Subsequent AT commands are also ignored, e.g., ATH.
The modem works fine with FreePPP and with MacComCenter (which came
with the modem); and ZTerm works OK with a Supra 28.8 modem. I considered
switching to MacComCenter, but it seems to screw up file names when
doing a Zmodem transfer (truncates to 8 chars?)
Machine: Mac-2ci, System 7.5.3
Any suggestions would be welcome.
...thanks....jim
.....jim mcclellan (404)894-8325 FAX:(404)853-9171
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Date: Mon, 13 May 96 17:28:44 +0200
From: [email protected] (David Steiner)
Subject: Audio CDs on 7200
Dear Mac-ophiles,
I have the feeling that this is going to be one of those questions that
is going to make me look dumb (as in, "I shoulda thought of that!") but
I have to ask it anyway.
We have these nice new PM 7200's with CD players but I can't for the life of
me get the CD Audio player to work. The software starts ok and, when we put
a CD in, it makes like it is trying to play (current track number is lit,
the timer starts counting, etc.) but no sound comes out. We have tried
headphones and speakers plugged into the audio out jack but we can't
hear the music. We can, with the proper settings, hear the system beep
>From the external speakers so it can't be a hardware problem.
So tell me, folks: What have I missed? Is there some setting somewhere that
I need to know about or another extention, or what?
TIA,
David R. Steiner - System Admin.
-- ISPA -- University of Vechta -- Germany ---
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:46:49 -0400
From: Clinton Hyde
Subject: audio stuff
I have about 5 cassettes of musical material from ~1981 which are
irreplaceable (one of the performers is dead) which I would like to
digitize, clean up a little bit, and make into CDs so that I don't
suffer the magnetic degradation that is inevitable.
questions are:
1) what do I have to do electrically to plug mono audio output from my
nice cassette player into the mac (I don't want to go through the
microphone)
2) what free/shareware items do I need to do the digitizing and
cleanup? I expect to make AIFF files as a result, and then I'll deal
with getting them to some location where I can press a do-it-yourself
CD...I downloaded a bunch of possibilities last night, but couldn't
tell which one(s) might do the job.
-- clint please reply direct, to [email protected]
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Date: 12 May 1996 15:38:41 -0400
From: [email protected] (Cash962)
Subject: Communigator?
I recently d/l the CommuniGate s/w and it refers to the CommuniGator app.
Can anyone direct me to its location? Thanks, Craig
Aint it great?!
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:20:38 -0400
From: Dave Cooper
Subject: Dataproducts LZR 1580 & print spooler problem
Hello,
A client of ours recently had us install a Workgroup Server with
Appleshare and Printserver. They have a Dataproducts LZR 1580 which
refuses to be captured by Printserver. I am aware that you can only
use the Laserwriter driver and not the Laserwriter 8 for use by
Printserver. Any good ideas floating around out there, I would
appreciate hearing them.
Thanks much,
Dave
You can also e-mail me at >[email protected] it possible to post to Usenet groups directly from Eudora (Lite or Pro),
>and is it also possible to set distribution headers in those posts?
No. The only possibility would be to use a "mail-to-news gateway". Such a
thing existed at utexas earlier, but they had to stop it because of
unethical use of it.
>YA-Newswatcher (my newsreader of choice) requires that you establish a net
>connection before you can see the group list, and since I prefer to compose
>posts off-line, I'd prefer to use Eudora, which lets you queue messages and
>send them later. What are my options?
Get an offline newsreader. NewsHopper 1.2 (NH) is the application I use.
You connect to your ISP and have NH download the new messages, post your
stuff, get as list of new groups and disconnect again. You can specify for
each newsgroup whether you want to download the full messages, or only the
subject, date and from lines. You can also limit the number of messages
downloaded, for example only the 100 newest items. You can set filters to
highlite or hide messages by author or by subject, etc.
If you want to reply to a news posting, just do it. NH replies to all
groups in the header. And when you click on the envelope symbol, it
even creates a mail message in Eudora (I use light.fat 1.5.3). Of course,
you need to post and mail separately, but this isn't too frustrating.
Hope this helps. Best wishes, Christian.
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Date: Fri, 10 May 96 15:14:34 EDT
From: Allan Hunter
Subject: Follow-up: cross-platform disk-spanning
Not long ago, I wrote in requesting tips for a cross-platform means of
transporting large files (>1.44 MB when compressed, i.e., won't fit
on a single floppy) if ZipIt isn't an option and there's no network or
removable media other than floppies to play with...
That's so many "ifs" that probably no one else will benefit from the
solution (I couldn't run the later versions of ZipIt because my SE's
accelerator card is allergic to it; most people will not have that
problem and ZipIt does an excellent job of extracting files from a
.zip archive that spans several floppies); but just in case--
I was playing with UULite, having resorted in despair to UUEncoding
the zip file on the PC (causing it to take up *4* floppies!!) and
UUDecoding same on the Mac with UULite, when I got the brilliant
notion that maybe UULite's file-merging function could merge two
pieces of a ZIP file instead of 4 pieces of a UUEncoded ZIP file...
sure enough, after copying the two halves of the ZIP file to the
hard drive and setting file type for both chunks to TEXT, and in
UULite's options telling it not to try to UUDecode after merging,
I was able to merge the pieces into a single file "Untitled"; I
renamed "Untitled" as "Untitled.uu" and dropped it on top of Stuffit
Expander and, sure enough, it UnZipped marvelously!
This is a solution I can live with. (I'd have rather lived with
finding out that Aladdin's newest Expander Enhancer would unzip
segmented zip archives, but it doesn't seem to do so; its segmented-
archives capabilities appear to be limited to .sit files). Oh well.
-Allan Hunter
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:55:52 -0500
From: [email protected] (Cross, Jay)
Subject: generic large icons
Problem: When viewed as "large icons", some icons (BBEdit, plain TEXT, some
others) are generic. This applies to all windows, the "get info" dialog,
and the desktop. When viewed as small icons, which of course can't be done
on the desktop, these same files have the appropriate icon for their type
and creator.
Specifics: IIsi with internal 80 meg HD. External APS Q540 with three
partitions. One of these is the boot partition, with 7.5.1, and another
contains all applications. Recently, I've been playing with the System
Update 2.0 (7.5.3) on the 80 meg internal and booting from that. This disk
was initialized before installing 7.5.0 and the update. The problem appears
regardless of which is the boot disk or its OS version, and existed before
I began fiddling 7.5.3. I use a bunch of extensions, but the problem
persists without them.
Other stuff: With all extensions off except Mac Easy Open, I've rebuilt the
desktop DBs with TechTool 1.0.9, starting with my applications partition,
ending with the boot partition or disk. The icons are "restored" after the
rebuild, but upon restarting the Mac the icons are generic again.
Restarting with or without extensions, including with or without MEO
changes nothing.
Disk First Aid and Norton Utils find nothing to complain about. Dragging
one of these generic icons from the desktop to a folder set to small icon
view shows the proper small icon. Forcing the bundle bit (icon copy, then
paste, then clear in the get info dlog) restores the proper large icon
until the next restart.
I've not zapped the pram, as it's not clear to me that this has anything to
do with large icon views. Remember, only the large icons are affected.
Any suggestions? The only large icons I see are on the desktop, as I use
small icon or one of the list views for all disks and folders. Still,
"somethin' ain't right here...." Thanks very much for any help.
Jay Cross
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:19:44 -0700
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: GIF/JPEG Display Shareware
>I have a simple question: Does anyone know of a really good shareware or
>commercial application that will let me display many (30-100) GIF or JPEG
>files on the screen simultaneously?
For JPG, I recommend Qpict, it can disply all you files as previews and
then
you can select the one you want. The new verion (in beta now I
beleive) will
also support GIF. I have also heard that Show-it is very good,
although I have
not used it myself.
Romulo Romero
[email protected]
Windows 95: Proof that you can be 10 years late and still
get most of the credit.
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 16:31:49 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Help with Creatix 28.8 Modem & Faxing...
I realize that this is a long shot, but I have a Creatix LC 288FC modem which
came with what has got to be the worst fax software in the world.
I have tried to use both FaxSTF and ValueFax but neither of them seem to be
able to send faxes with this modem (Quadra 630, System 7.5.3). I called tech
support and they told me to use the following initialization string:
AT&F0&C1&D2&S7=90 (note that the &D command wasn't even in the manual)
Anyway, this doesn't seem to work and I was wondering if anyone (probably only
anyone in Germany where this thing is sold) could help.
I'm open to ANY suggestions but would request that they be sent directly to me
as I can't imagine needing to bore anyone else in the world with this problem (
or its solution).
MUCH TIA!!
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
P.S.- I've not yet bought but have seen the software from Global Village- of
all the fax software on the market it looks the best- but I don't want to
shell out yet more $ for s/w if I can't get the thing working... If anyone
should like a critique on what's wrong with the user interface design on
either FaxSTF or ValueFax (this is, of course, completely independent of the
problems I'm having) I'd be more that willing to pass along a LONG list of
idiocies they built into their s/w (why can't anyone make decent fax s/w??)...
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 21:04:01 -0600
From: "Lisa Vivian Saffel"
Subject: how do we find "net clock" for Mac
How do we find and download "Net Clock" for Macintosh?
Does it work with a non-Power-Macintosh?
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Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:47:15 -0500
From: Tim wood
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #109
Ricl Nible wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Hi,
I am afraid you will have to pay for the upgrade. Free updaters are only
available among minor version changes e.g. 4.0 to 4.02. To get an undate
>From 1.02 to 2.0x you will have to pay the update from Claris. But of
cause, since ClarisWorks is now at 4.04 you will have to update from 1.02
to 4.04. I assume it will cost just as much as buying a new licence.
If you want to know if there are updates for the 1.0x versions available
go to Claris home page under http://www.claris.com/.
Sorry I cannot provide a more satisfying answer.
cheers
Andrew
Actually, what you can do is call Claris' replacement media line
(1-800-544-8554) and ask for replacement disks for either 2.x or 3.x
(can't remember the final versions of either off the top of my head).
You'll pay the shipping and handling ($13 I believe) but they will send
the copy out since you own 4.0 (at least that's how I read your post...)
Tim
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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 02:45:32 +0100
From: Ingraf Informatica Grafica
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #109
>Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:46:13 -0000
>From: [email protected] (Nicola Evoli)
>Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #107
>
>To ALL.
>
>I have a PERSONAL LASER WRITER NT and until now (30,000 copies) I have had
>no problem at all, on the countrary I was very proud of it.
>
>Just a month ago, while printing documents and after the machine was in
>perfectly regular st.by, I noticed that after the green display lamp was
>flashing as usual while ooading the document into the printer, at the
>moment of the laser printing, both alarm lamps (paper and paper jam)
>started to flash together and no printing was coming out. The PRINTMONITOR
>suggested to call Apple Service. So I did. The first time they replaced the
>scanner unit (very expensive, over $ 480 all incl) and although I was
>skeptic I did it for love of this machine instead of buying a new one
>(30,000 copies are not many yet!). After 2 weeks of very low use, the same
>problem again. This time happened gradually: the printer began to print
>progressively shorter pages, cutting out the bottom of the genuine page.
>They replaced the scanner unit again free of charge. After 2 hours the same
>problem as at the very beginning. Now they have the machine under more
>severe tests.
>
>I wonder if is anybody there with knowledge of this printer and if this
>problem is related to something already known such as little electric bugs.
>I have the impression they replaced the scanner unit but not the source of
>the problem.
I'm Apple Service here in Valladolid-Spain, I have one printer with the
same problem. Check fuser temperature with printer on, if this is not
hot, the problem is fuser, if this is hot, check the laser assembly, is
very probably your problem is here, look at the board and check if this
is burn below one small chip.
Excuse my poor English
Jose Luis del Olmo
Ingraf, Informatica Grafica
[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 01:14:03 -0400
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: Internet Config & System 7.5.3 (Q)
Dear Digest Readers,
Another System 7.5.3/PowerMac 7200 incompatibility:
1. I load without extensions.
2. I run the Internet Config 1.2 application.
3. I click on the file transfer box in the upper right hand corner of
the internet config window.
4. The Mac does not register mouse events whether I click in the menu
bar or desktop, and I am forced to force quit.
Is there a newer version of Internet Config planned or available for
the OpenTransport 1.1 anytime soon? I just got Internet Config as part
of the new CE Software's WebAranger 2.0. Looks like WebAranger depends
on Internet Config to launch my web browser, and I can't get there
because step #3 above does not work. Of course I can copy/paste, but
that defeats the purpose. This is especially true because it has an
"agent" program that will search the validity of sites in your
bookmarks to see if they still exist. Without the helper application
in Internet Config the agent won't work! Hecht, and it says it is
PowerPC native. As MacWareHouse doesn't have a MBG I am stuck with
it, and $80 down the drain until Internet Config is fixed.
Just thought you all might be interested.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected] (please e-mail replies)
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:43:44 +0200
From: Matti Zemack
Subject: Modem can't use the ModemPort
Hi all macers,
I usually get really good advice from this list. And sometimes I even give
some.
So now the time has come to ask next question. I know that this question might
already
have been answered, but I was so behind in Info-Mac reading that I had to trash
quite a
lot of Digests the other week...
The problem:
Sometimes my computers (PM7100/66 & Radius 81/110) can't get in contact with
their
modems (sportster 28,8). It says that such-and-such ports are in use. Until
now,
I've
solved this by crawling behind the mac and moving the modemcable from say the
modem-
port to the printer-port, opening the Control-Panel (ConfigPPP) and changing
ports.
It has worked for quite some while now.
So, my family of grey machines on my desk got bigger. A new friend, a HP4ML
laser printer
arrived. This is a PS-printer so it has to sit in the PrinterPort and having
Appletalk ON.
The modem is of course upset because she is much smaller than the
laserprinter.
But the
computer doesn't like this fight, and the computers way of solving it is not
letting the
modem work of the modemport. (The computer says that the port is engaged).
And there is now way of letting the modem use its port.
The owner, Me, wants these three machines to be friends, and all work at the
same time,
but how?
Please help me, answer by e-mail to ---->>>> [email protected]
thanks,
Matti Zemack, Stockholm, Sweden
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Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 11:00:00 -0700
From: [email protected] (Ray Rizos)
Subject: Modem Script
Would someone who has experienced and solved this problem please help.
I use a Hays Ptima 288 ( Fax ) modem. I have it set up with the simple
script of AT&F as the innitialization string. This string has worked
reasonably well in the past but at the time I did not downlaod large time
consuming graphics files. Recently my modem has an echo failure every half
hour or so, making it frustrating if not impossible to D/L or e-mail
anything sizable.
1. My local IP gave me a couple of scripts but I cannot even dial out
when I try them. ( non macers I suppose ).
2. I normally use a second phone line which is the one that fails
often. When I go to my regular phone line the situation improves
dramatically. This probably indicates a noisy telephone line?? and possibly
supports my IPs claim that they have no problems at their end
3. Do I have to go after my Telco and what can I insist they do.
4. Is there an innitialization string which improves the ability of
the modem to handle noise or other drop out related causes. I am trying to
read the manual but having a lot of difficulty understanding the various
options.
Your collective help in this matter will be appreciated. If mailed directly
I will post a resume of responses.
TIA.
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:04:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Don Edberg
Subject: postscript program
Hello,
I have located a postscript program that is supposed to put dynamic
document names in MSWord 5 documents. However, I keep getting postscript
errors. Can anyone help suggest what to do to make it work?
the text is repeated below:
%% Print document name in 10pt Helvetica, starting at beginning
%% of next Word paragraph. Make sure paragraph size is at least
%% 10pt or the name will not print.
%% Code by Ken Hughes (UBC) and Walter Smith (Apple).
.gsave .para. 0setgray
/Helvetica findfont 10 scalefont setfont 0 2 moveto
(Document: ) show statusdict /jobname get
/$jn exch def $jn length 1 sub -1 0
{ dup $jn exch get 58 eq
{ 1 add $jn exch dup $jn length exch sub getinterval show exit }
if 0 eq { $jn show } if } for grestore
thanks,
don e.
* e-mail: [email protected] * Dr. Donald Edberg (Don) *
* phone: 1-714-896-5210 * McDonnell-Douglas Aerospace *
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Date: Thu, 9 May 96 18:28:02 -0500
From: "Jason P. Torrey"
Subject: PowerMac Recall???
Today (5/9/96) on CNN Headline News' 5:00pm CST program, the Financial
part of the program had some information about Apple's PowerMac,
Performas, and PowerBook possibly having problems and needing to be
(possibly) recalled. I saw only the closing portion of the segment...can
anyone clarify and/or expand this issue?
Thanks,
Jason Torrey
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 12:39:24 -0500
From: Barry Campbell
Subject: Preformatted Macintosh Diskettes
As many correspondents noted earlier this week, IBM-preformatted
diskettes can easily be reformatted on the Macintosh, and, with PC
Exchange installed, read directly.
I just wanted to provide a pointer to a resource that I've been
enjoying:
3.5 inch diskettes, preformatted for Macintosh!
The only ones I've been able to regularly find at the local office
supplies store are manufactured/distributed by Memorex/Telex; the
Memorex part number for a box of 10 preformatted disks is 3202-3671, and
they're the same price as comparable-quality blank or IBM-preformatted
diskettes.
I haven't had a single one of them test out as bad-out-of-the-box, and
I've probably gone through a couple hundred by now (I distribute
documents and files to customers on a pretty regular basis.)
I have no affiliation with the manufacturer, and your mileage may vary.
-- Barry Campbell * *
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 96 06:39 GMT-0400
From: [email protected] (Laurence Hawkins)
Subject: Problems Downloading Netscape Update
I have been using Netscape 1.1N for ages with total satisfaction, but now
feel I should move up to 2.02. For the past several days I have been trying
to download from a Netscape.com address, but every time I reach the point
of 2.4 MB downloaded (out of the total of 2.691 MB) I get a "disk full"
message, which is quite untrue, as I have 500 MB empty space on my HD.
I have a IIsi, running on 7.1, with external APS drive, and am getting onto
the net through a SupraFax 288 modem, on a PPP/TCP connection. I have no
problems surfing the net with my old 1.1N, and overall the setup is very
stable. So what is it about this particular download ?
Laurence Hawkins
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:15:00 -0400
From: [email protected] (LUIS SEPULVEDA)
Subject: Problem with Style Writer 1200
Hi, I have a problem with a StyleWriter 1200. This printer is sharing with
3 computers, but one of these (powerpc 7200 with 7.5.3 system) can't seting
the paper size (Us letter) . Also, in other printer, a Quadra 700 (7.5.1)
computer can't print while not restarting.
=BF Is a problem with a 7.5.x version of system?
Please replay me to my e-mail. Thanks !.- ([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 01:10:54 -0700
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Recommendations for color laser printers?
(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
comp.sys.mac.printing)
At the print shop for which I am graphic designer, we have an occasional
need for color proofs. Most of our work is done in FreeHand 5.5, and most
files are under 100K: rarely do we do anything really fancy.
Our main concerns are:
* Cost
* Prints on plain 20# bond paper (not special stock)
* Photographic-quality printed scans (we'd like to print color business cards)
Secondary concerns:
* Speed
* Prints on 8.5x11 card stock
* Prints on 11x17 plain paper
I'm thinking a 720-dpi inkjet would probably suffice for the main
concerns, with Freedom of Press installed for when we do weird PostScript
stuff (which is rare). I understand, though, that inkjets can be rather
slow. Suggestions?
For those replying from comp.sys.mac.printing, e-mail replies are
preferred; I read too many newsgroups already.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 11:35:23 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jason Sparks)
Subject: SCSC id Problems!
I just bought an external drive box, and a used SCSI
HD. How can I change the ID? It and my internal both have the 0 ID. I
can only get one to mount at a time, and I don't know how to change the ID
of you boot drive (I didn't think you could)? Please help me!
--
Json Sparks
[email protected]
A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing...
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 15:57:07 +0100
From: Francis Knight
Subject: SE/30 video repaired
Hi chaps,
In Digest #89 I wrote:
> After 5 years use, my trusty SE/30 is showing signs of capacitor failure
>in the video circuit; the screen is jittery in the horizontal direction, and
>the linearity is becoming poor.
My belated thanks to those who offered their advice.
Armed with that, and some non-ideal-valued capacitors, I plunged in one
free Sunday afternoon. The first thing I noticed was that the existing
capacitor was of higher voltage rating than I expected; almost as if Apple
had been reading Larry Pina's books! The second thing I noticed was that
replacing it didn't make much difference to the problem, but wiggling the
nearby cable harness on connector P1 did!
So I disengaged the plug a few times to scrape off any oxide on the
contacts, and just in case I was disturbing some cracked solder joints, I
de-soldered those in the vicinity and re-did them with fresh solder. The
original capacitor went back in.
The machine's perfectly happy now.
Incidentally, somebody once mentioned here that the last SE/30's built
actually received 32-bit clean ROMs. Does anyone know how to identify these
machines or ROMs?
Cheers,
Francis
------------------------------
Date: 13 May 1996 11:27:51 +1000
From: [email protected] (Isaac Balbin)
Subject: Shutdown/Restart don't work under 7.5.3 on a MacIIsi
The finder crashes. 9Mb Ram. Happens with or without VM.
I have zapped PRAM (although I couldn't use Techtool 1.09
because it/the finder crashed when trying to restart the mac!).
I had installed a clean pristing 7.5 and then the updater to 7.5.3.
With all extensions off (via extensions manager),
trying to restart occasionaly came up with a Type 10 error.
Any ideas?
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 01:18:15 -0600
From: Chris Peyton
Subject: Simple Player
If possible, could someone email me and let me know where I can download
Simple Player for the Mac. I am new to the net and recently downloaded
a movie preview and can't watch it because it says I don't have simple
player. I have searched all over for something to open mov. or avi.
type files any help would be greatly appreciated.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:40:12 -0500
From: [email protected] (Charlie Summers)
Subject: SUMMARY: Mac and Win95 w/Unix Server
Folks;
First, a quick apology for taking so long to post this summary; things
have been a little busy around here.
The original question:
> Does _anyone_ know of a file-sharing protocol that can be used under
> Unix as a file server for both the Mac and Win machines? The goal of this
> exercise is to set up a mini-network using TCP/IP as the underlying layer,
> allowing for EMAIL (relatively simple) and file serving (here, I'm stuck);
> all using non-commercial (shareware ok, if at a reasonable cost) software
> for both the server and client ends. This system will _not_ be connected to
> the Internet, rather a simple LAN exercise.
The answer, it seems, is so obvious I missed it completely. The trick is
to use CAP (or Netatalk) for the Mac and NFS (or Samba for SMB) for the PC
to share _the same filesystem._ Although we haven't had time to test
database record locking and the like between the two protocols, it has
worked for respondants to the original post. And I am personally embarassed
that I didn't think of it myself, since it seems to be an elegant solution
to the client issue. (One user noted that a 80486 running Linux had no
problem handling serving while used as an X-Windows workstation on a small
network, so mammoth horsepower for the Linux box doesn't seem to be
required.)
My thanks to Robert Hill, Stefan Brix, and any other kind soul who
responded that I might have forgotten. (That memory thing goes as we get
older...)
Charlie Summers
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 20:58:36 -0400
From: Jeff Frankel
Subject: Syquest EZ135 vs. Zip
A number of persons have stated the ejection process for EZ135
cartridges as follows: drag the cartridge icon to the trash, push
the eject button on the drive, and slide the lock/unlock lever to the
right to push the cartridge out of the drive. This is true as far as
it goes. However, a software setting on the included Silverlining
Lite control panel eliminates the need to push the eject button.
Just drag the icon to the trash, slide over the lever, and your
cartridge is out.
I'm extremely pleased with the EZ135 I purchased several months
ago. As far as speed is concerned, the EZ 135 is much, much faster
than the 250 meg internal Quantum drive that came with my
7100/66.
--
Jeff Frankel
Windsor, Maine USA
"Where the woodpecker pecks
and the porcupine plays"
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 19:30:28 -0800
From: glaston
Subject: T-shirts
My friendly local stationary supply superstore offers transfer paper
for Cannon printers. Once the image is printed on the transfer paper,
it can apparently be ironed onto a T-shirt.
Does anybody know whether these transfers will work in my Epson Stylus
Color II, and if so, how well?
TIA
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 22:57:19 -0400
From: [email protected] (Raphael N. Levi)
Subject: Thank You, all
This a general thank you to all those who answered my previous post about
transporting a data base from the ASpple // environment to File Maker Pro.
It really worked out with all the help I got from the kind readers of IM!!!!
I'll try to mention all of those who were kind enough to answer my SOS call:
Bob Beason Al Bloom Cindy Krueger
David Bourne Anthony Stuckey Vincent Cayenne
Gary Danaher Ron Richter Bob Austin
Michael Burton Joern Wennerstroem
I hope I didn't miss anyone!
Thanks again to every one of you kind people. I find it very heartening
indeed that there are so many of you who are willing to come to the aid of
a total stranger in distress, I really wonder whether this kind of
cameraderie also exists in the IBM world?
At any rate, if anyone at all needs help with a related problem, I'll do
all I can to help. You can reach me at [email protected].
Well, the sun is shining again and all's right with the world.
Affectionately,
Raphael N. Levi
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:53:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: ROBERT_BROCKMAN
Subject: Upgrading LW320's RAM
asked about upgrading his LaserWriter 320's RAM from 2Mb to 4 or 8Mb...
I bought my LW320 and a 2Mb upgrade from MacZone about 18 months ago. I
installed the upgrade myself before I had even turned the LW320 on. I got
stuck at one point, called Apple's 1-800-SOS-APPL line, and spoke to a helpful
engineer who, of course, couldn't tell me what to do, but offered considerable
help by "thinking out loud" how to solve my problem.
I'd check the old familiar mail order places... I tend to favor MacConnection
and sometimes MacZone. I don't like MacWarehouse simply because of their inane
advertising ("Hi! I'm Tonya! Call me now to order your very own Ethernet
transceiver!" gag gag gag).
I'd also question your authorized dealer again... Apple is still selling the
320, and they advertise you can upgrade (of course, I bought my SE/30 with the
assurance that Apple would upgrade my ROMs to 32-bit clean ones, too).
Good luck!
Robert Brockman, aka [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 14:53:44 +0100
From: Ingraf Informatica Grafica
Subject: URGENT!!!
>I'm Apple Service here in Valladolid-Spain, I have one printer with the same
problem. Check >fuser temperature with printer on, if this is not hot,
the problem is fuser, if this is hot, >check the laser assembly, is very
probably your problem is here, look at the board and check >if this is
burn below one small chip.
Sorry, the problem is NOT the laser assembly, is the scanner assembly,
the rest is the same.
Jose Luis del Olmo
Ingraf, Informatica Grafica
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 23:25:22 +0100
From: [email protected] (Bill Ingraham)
Subject: Using two servers
I have just moved for the summer and want to stay with the server I had in
Florida, to get my mail, etc. The long distance phone call will make it too
costly to use that for browsing the Internet. But there is a server
locally that is not too expensive and I want to sign up with it as well.
How do I go about configuring Config PPP and MacTCP so that I have each
separate and can choose which direction to go? Is there anything else that
will need to be changed?
Any help will me much appreciated.
Bill Ingraham
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 11:07:51 -0400
From: [email protected] (Lyman Green)
Subject: Weird beeping on startup problem?
(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
comp.sys.mac.system)
Well.. here's a problem I've not seen before. For whatever reason, a
co-worker's 180C has started exhibiting weird behavior. When he boots up,
it emits a weird beep, then after the desktop mounts, it does a rising
scale beep, then the keyboard is useless. Keypresses result in a beeping,
though mouse actions are ok.
Some notes:
1. It doesn't happen with extensions off.
2. He re-installed system software, and it still happens.
3. No viruses or other problems that MacTools Pro could find.
4. I have been unsucessful at finding the offending extension/cdev...
I've moved deleted everything I could find that was non-apple, including
invisible Ramdoubler files.
We are aware that the problem could probably be solved by copying off
data, and then starting on a cleaned hard drive from scratch, but it's the
principle of the thing.
Any ideas or heard of this problem? Thanks in advance!
--
Lyman C. Green, Jr.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 9:11:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Frank J. Nagy/Get this cheese to Sickbay!"
Subject: Why keep files as Binhex .hqx
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #109, [email protected] (Gary Turnbull)
askes why not switch from .HQX files to .SIT files in the archives. His
primary point is that .SIT files are smaller and would take less space
and less bandwidth for downloading. While he presents good arguments,
consider some countering points:
1. Disk space is pretty cheap these days, so the storage is somewhat of a
moot point. However, the download time still remains valid.
2. Some people may not download directly to their Mac but got though and
intermediate system. Since the .HQX file is pure ASCII and constrained
to be less than 80 characters per line, many problems with data corruption
are bypassed. Also, note that (like myself) people using intermediary
systems do so for many reasons including having utilties/scripts to automate
the downloads, higher performance connections/systems, etc.
3. There is the problem of getting the file type/creator set properly. The
.HQX file is a text file and many utilities already exist that will decode
it properly. If you download a .SIT file, you will likely have to use a
utility to change the file type/creator before you can unpack it.
4. One nice feature of the .HQX files being ASCII, is that a descriptive header
can be prepended before the encoded portion. This might be as simple as
one line with name, version and a short description or as much as a more
detailed description of what the packaged software does. In many cases,
the descriptions are the same as what appears in the abstracts (.ABS
files).
Having the encoded information and the descriptions joined in this way makes
managing the storage easier (you can never lose just 1) and allows users to
examine the package without having to decode and unpack it.
Given all these points, I believe that having the archives consist of .HQX
files
is still the preferred method.
On another note, I believe that at least one of the Info-Mac mirror sites makes
the decoded .SIT/.CPT archives available in binary form rather than as .HQX
files.
Such a situation means we can have the best of both solutions.
= Dr. Frank J. Nagy "Evil, wicked, mean and nasty system mugger"
= Fermilab Computing Division/Operating Systems Support Dept
= CDF/D0 Systems group leader *and* OSS Associate Dept. Head
= Internet: [email protected]
= USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/369 Batavia, IL 60510
= ICBM: 41d 50m 14s N, 88d 15m 48s W, 741 ft ASL
--------------------------------
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 13 May 96 Volume 14 : Issue 111
Today's Topics:
(Q) Netscape Problem
--STARTUP SCREENS--
7.5.3 Conflict with Print Shop Deluxe?
[Q] Apple Menu Options CP freezes my MAC
[Q] Disk First Aid errors
[Q] Terminal Like Mail Program?
[Q]ZTerm 1.01 can't do AT commands to USR Sporster 28.8 modem
Audio CDs on 7200
audio stuff
Communigator?
Dataproducts LZR 1580 & print spooler problem
Eudora questions: Posting to Newsgroups; Setting Distribution
Follow-up: cross-platform disk-spanning
generic large icons
GIF/JPEG Display Shareware
Help with Creatix 28.8 Modem & Faxing...
how do we find "net clock" for Mac
Info-Mac Digest V14 #109 (2 msgs)
Internet Config & System 7.5.3 (Q)
Modem can't use the ModemPort
Modem Script
postscript program
PowerMac Recall???
Preformatted Macintosh Diskettes
Problems Downloading Netscape Update
Problem with Style Writer 1200
Recommendations for color laser printers?
SCSC id Problems!
SE/30 video repaired
Shutdown/Restart don't work under 7.5.3 on a MacIIsi
Simple Player
SUMMARY: Mac and Win95 w/Unix Server
Syquest EZ135 vs. Zip
T-shirts
Thank You, all
Upgrading LW320's RAM
URGENT!!!
Using two servers
Weird beeping on startup problem?
Why keep files as Binhex .hqx
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 16:54:06 -0800
From: [email protected] (Greg Lyzenga)
Subject: (Q) Netscape Problem
I've got a question about Netscape that has been bothering me for a while
now. I gather that since I'm an academic user (i.e. non-paying), I'm not
entitled to direct tech support from Netscape, however I hope somebody here
will recognize my problem and be able to help.
Simply put, I can not get Netscape versions later than 2.0 to recognize any
URL beginning with "gopher://". Version 2.0 works fine, but neither 2.01
nor 2.02 seem to be able to recognize gopher.
Is this just a configuration problem of which I am unaware, or is it a bona
fide bug? [Or an advanced "feature"?
] Thanks for any advice.P.S. Thanks to everybody who responded to my previous question about
repairing old Macs; I decided to give Sun Remarketing a try...
Gregory A. Lyzenga Dept. of Physics, Harvey Mudd College
http://www.physics.hmc.edu/profs/lyzenga.html
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 22:01:59 +0000
From: Dethstar
Subject: --STARTUP SCREENS--
Please take a second and visit Startup Central for all of your Macintosh
startup screen needs. We are located at
http://www.global2000.net/evergreen/startup. Please feel free to link
where appropriate!
Thanks!
------------------------------
Date: 9 May 1996 05:21:55 GMT
From: [email protected] (Frank R Petroski)
Subject: 7.5.3 Conflict with Print Shop Deluxe?
I installed 7.5.3 on my Performa 630-CD (8MB RAM, 230MB IDE HD). We quickly
discovered that Print Shop Deluxe will not print calendars and posters.
The behavior, summarized quicky, is that a blank page is printed (under
print preview on the HP spooler it also displays a blank page), and even
more surprising, after the print command is completed, the document window
itself is also blank, with the exception of a single character in the middle
of the page that looks like an upper left corner box drawing character.
This same behavior also happens with the color stylewriter printer selected,
so I don't think it's an HP deskjet driver problem. I have an HP550C, and the
latest version of the HP drivers.
This all worked fine under 7.5.1
Anyone else see this? Any suggestions (other than drop back to 7.5.1?).
Oh, the problem happens under open transport as well as the old mactcp setup.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 12:22:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (Robert George Daniel)
Subject: [Q] Apple Menu Options CP freezes my MAC
I hadn't opened the Apple Menu Options Control Panel since shortly
after it was installed, and it worked fine then. Now, every time I
attempt to open it, my PowerMac 7100/66 freezes immediately.
I tried trashing the preferences file, eliminating 3rd party extensions
and control panels, and with/without RamDoubler, but still the freeze.
Even re-installed just the control panel from the 7.5.1 CD. MacTools reports
no problems with my Hard Drive.
Freezes in general seem on the rise lately, and I'm poised to install
7.5.3, but maybe this is something specific that others have encountered?
Thanks in advance,
Bob. [email protected] http://www.inforamp.net/~rgd
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:13:36 +0100
From: [email protected] (John Latimer)
Subject: [Q] Disk First Aid errors
I was just doing some house-keeping on my Mac after repeated crashes with
Stuffit Expander with Expander Enhancer (which I removed and reinstalled).
I rebuilt the desktop and ran Norton Utilities for Macintosh 2.0, which
found a few minor problems with dropped bundle bits etc, which it repaired
to its satisfaction, and now reports that the hard disk is fine. I then
rebuilt the desktop. However, when I run Apple's Disk First Aid, it
reports:
-Checking disk "Barney's Rubble".
-Checking disk volume.
-Checking extent BTree.
-Checking extent file.
-Checking catalog BTree.
-Checking catalog file.
-Problem: Invalid PEOF, 40331, 637
-Rechecking catalog file.
-Test done. Problems were found, but Disk First Aid cannot repair them.
(This was still the case when my internal HD was not used as the start up disk)
These errors are not listed in MacErrors 2.0; what do they mean and do I
need to worry about them!? I'm not having any other problems at the moment
that I am aware of. If I do need to fix them, how do I go about it? Will
upgrading to NUM 3.1 or 3.2 help?
(System info: PB145 8/250, FWB HD v 1.6.0, System 7.5.3, Disk First Aid 7.2.2)
Many TIA for any help.
John Latimer
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 00:31:47 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling"
Subject: [Q] Terminal Like Mail Program?
I'm the computer coordinator for a small private school in Central New York,
and we've been running a combination of AIMS and Eudora Light in order to
provide our students and staff with email. It's all been running pretty
well except for the problem that a lot of people, no matter how many times
you tell them, don't seem to grasp the concept that it's not enough to
merely close your Eudora window when you finish reading your mail on a
public machine, but you *have to actually quit the application*.
As a result, I've been wondering...is there any software out there that
would allow us to set up a mail system similar to the way I'm used to doing
it through my shell account...that is that they open an application to log
into *their* disk space on the mail server, and when they close that window,
everything goes back to normal?
What I really would've loved would be to find some local third party
provider that everyone could just telnet over to, then I'd be out of the
loop of having to administer the mail system *and* those of us who had other
kinds of access could also read our mail at home. But, alas, it works out
that running AIMS off of one of the library Macs is *soooo* much cheaper.
Thanks in advance for any help.
keg
* [email protected] I've got plenty of opinions. Just ask my wife! *
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:22:51 -0400
From: [email protected] (Jim McClellan)
Subject: [Q]ZTerm 1.01 can't do AT commands to USR Sporster 28.8 modem
I cannot get ZTerm v1.01 to work with a brand new US Robotics 28.8
modem. Whenever I "dial" from the menu, the ATDT string is ignored.
Subsequent AT commands are also ignored, e.g., ATH.
The modem works fine with FreePPP and with MacComCenter (which came
with the modem); and ZTerm works OK with a Supra 28.8 modem. I considered
switching to MacComCenter, but it seems to screw up file names when
doing a Zmodem transfer (truncates to 8 chars?)
Machine: Mac-2ci, System 7.5.3
Any suggestions would be welcome.
...thanks....jim
.....jim mcclellan (404)894-8325 FAX:(404)853-9171
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 May 96 17:28:44 +0200
From: [email protected] (David Steiner)
Subject: Audio CDs on 7200
Dear Mac-ophiles,
I have the feeling that this is going to be one of those questions that
is going to make me look dumb (as in, "I shoulda thought of that!") but
I have to ask it anyway.
We have these nice new PM 7200's with CD players but I can't for the life of
me get the CD Audio player to work. The software starts ok and, when we put
a CD in, it makes like it is trying to play (current track number is lit,
the timer starts counting, etc.) but no sound comes out. We have tried
headphones and speakers plugged into the audio out jack but we can't
hear the music. We can, with the proper settings, hear the system beep
>From the external speakers so it can't be a hardware problem.
So tell me, folks: What have I missed? Is there some setting somewhere that
I need to know about or another extention, or what?
TIA,
David R. Steiner - System Admin.
-- ISPA -- University of Vechta -- Germany ---
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:46:49 -0400
From: Clinton Hyde
Subject: audio stuff
I have about 5 cassettes of musical material from ~1981 which are
irreplaceable (one of the performers is dead) which I would like to
digitize, clean up a little bit, and make into CDs so that I don't
suffer the magnetic degradation that is inevitable.
questions are:
1) what do I have to do electrically to plug mono audio output from my
nice cassette player into the mac (I don't want to go through the
microphone)
2) what free/shareware items do I need to do the digitizing and
cleanup? I expect to make AIFF files as a result, and then I'll deal
with getting them to some location where I can press a do-it-yourself
CD...I downloaded a bunch of possibilities last night, but couldn't
tell which one(s) might do the job.
-- clint please reply direct, to [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: 12 May 1996 15:38:41 -0400
From: [email protected] (Cash962)
Subject: Communigator?
I recently d/l the CommuniGate s/w and it refers to the CommuniGator app.
Can anyone direct me to its location? Thanks, Craig
Aint it great?!
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:20:38 -0400
From: Dave Cooper
Subject: Dataproducts LZR 1580 & print spooler problem
Hello,
A client of ours recently had us install a Workgroup Server with
Appleshare and Printserver. They have a Dataproducts LZR 1580 which
refuses to be captured by Printserver. I am aware that you can only
use the Laserwriter driver and not the Laserwriter 8 for use by
Printserver. Any good ideas floating around out there, I would
appreciate hearing them.
Thanks much,
Dave
You can also e-mail me at >[email protected] it possible to post to Usenet groups directly from Eudora (Lite or Pro),
>and is it also possible to set distribution headers in those posts?
No. The only possibility would be to use a "mail-to-news gateway". Such a
thing existed at utexas earlier, but they had to stop it because of
unethical use of it.
>YA-Newswatcher (my newsreader of choice) requires that you establish a net
>connection before you can see the group list, and since I prefer to compose
>posts off-line, I'd prefer to use Eudora, which lets you queue messages and
>send them later. What are my options?
Get an offline newsreader. NewsHopper 1.2 (NH) is the application I use.
You connect to your ISP and have NH download the new messages, post your
stuff, get as list of new groups and disconnect again. You can specify for
each newsgroup whether you want to download the full messages, or only the
subject, date and from lines. You can also limit the number of messages
downloaded, for example only the 100 newest items. You can set filters to
highlite or hide messages by author or by subject, etc.
If you want to reply to a news posting, just do it. NH replies to all
groups in the header. And when you click on the envelope symbol, it
even creates a mail message in Eudora (I use light.fat 1.5.3). Of course,
you need to post and mail separately, but this isn't too frustrating.
Hope this helps. Best wishes, Christian.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 96 15:14:34 EDT
From: Allan Hunter
Subject: Follow-up: cross-platform disk-spanning
Not long ago, I wrote in requesting tips for a cross-platform means of
transporting large files (>1.44 MB when compressed, i.e., won't fit
on a single floppy) if ZipIt isn't an option and there's no network or
removable media other than floppies to play with...
That's so many "ifs" that probably no one else will benefit from the
solution (I couldn't run the later versions of ZipIt because my SE's
accelerator card is allergic to it; most people will not have that
problem and ZipIt does an excellent job of extracting files from a
.zip archive that spans several floppies); but just in case--
I was playing with UULite, having resorted in despair to UUEncoding
the zip file on the PC (causing it to take up *4* floppies!!) and
UUDecoding same on the Mac with UULite, when I got the brilliant
notion that maybe UULite's file-merging function could merge two
pieces of a ZIP file instead of 4 pieces of a UUEncoded ZIP file...
sure enough, after copying the two halves of the ZIP file to the
hard drive and setting file type for both chunks to TEXT, and in
UULite's options telling it not to try to UUDecode after merging,
I was able to merge the pieces into a single file "Untitled"; I
renamed "Untitled" as "Untitled.uu" and dropped it on top of Stuffit
Expander and, sure enough, it UnZipped marvelously!
This is a solution I can live with. (I'd have rather lived with
finding out that Aladdin's newest Expander Enhancer would unzip
segmented zip archives, but it doesn't seem to do so; its segmented-
archives capabilities appear to be limited to .sit files). Oh well.
-Allan Hunter
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:55:52 -0500
From: [email protected] (Cross, Jay)
Subject: generic large icons
Problem: When viewed as "large icons", some icons (BBEdit, plain TEXT, some
others) are generic. This applies to all windows, the "get info" dialog,
and the desktop. When viewed as small icons, which of course can't be done
on the desktop, these same files have the appropriate icon for their type
and creator.
Specifics: IIsi with internal 80 meg HD. External APS Q540 with three
partitions. One of these is the boot partition, with 7.5.1, and another
contains all applications. Recently, I've been playing with the System
Update 2.0 (7.5.3) on the 80 meg internal and booting from that. This disk
was initialized before installing 7.5.0 and the update. The problem appears
regardless of which is the boot disk or its OS version, and existed before
I began fiddling 7.5.3. I use a bunch of extensions, but the problem
persists without them.
Other stuff: With all extensions off except Mac Easy Open, I've rebuilt the
desktop DBs with TechTool 1.0.9, starting with my applications partition,
ending with the boot partition or disk. The icons are "restored" after the
rebuild, but upon restarting the Mac the icons are generic again.
Restarting with or without extensions, including with or without MEO
changes nothing.
Disk First Aid and Norton Utils find nothing to complain about. Dragging
one of these generic icons from the desktop to a folder set to small icon
view shows the proper small icon. Forcing the bundle bit (icon copy, then
paste, then clear in the get info dlog) restores the proper large icon
until the next restart.
I've not zapped the pram, as it's not clear to me that this has anything to
do with large icon views. Remember, only the large icons are affected.
Any suggestions? The only large icons I see are on the desktop, as I use
small icon or one of the list views for all disks and folders. Still,
"somethin' ain't right here...." Thanks very much for any help.
Jay Cross
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:19:44 -0700
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: GIF/JPEG Display Shareware
>I have a simple question: Does anyone know of a really good shareware or
>commercial application that will let me display many (30-100) GIF or JPEG
>files on the screen simultaneously?
For JPG, I recommend Qpict, it can disply all you files as previews and
then
you can select the one you want. The new verion (in beta now I
beleive) will
also support GIF. I have also heard that Show-it is very good,
although I have
not used it myself.
Romulo Romero
[email protected]
Windows 95: Proof that you can be 10 years late and still
get most of the credit.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 16:31:49 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Help with Creatix 28.8 Modem & Faxing...
I realize that this is a long shot, but I have a Creatix LC 288FC modem which
came with what has got to be the worst fax software in the world.
I have tried to use both FaxSTF and ValueFax but neither of them seem to be
able to send faxes with this modem (Quadra 630, System 7.5.3). I called tech
support and they told me to use the following initialization string:
AT&F0&C1&D2&S7=90 (note that the &D command wasn't even in the manual)
Anyway, this doesn't seem to work and I was wondering if anyone (probably only
anyone in Germany where this thing is sold) could help.
I'm open to ANY suggestions but would request that they be sent directly to me
as I can't imagine needing to bore anyone else in the world with this problem (
or its solution).
MUCH TIA!!
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
P.S.- I've not yet bought but have seen the software from Global Village- of
all the fax software on the market it looks the best- but I don't want to
shell out yet more $ for s/w if I can't get the thing working... If anyone
should like a critique on what's wrong with the user interface design on
either FaxSTF or ValueFax (this is, of course, completely independent of the
problems I'm having) I'd be more that willing to pass along a LONG list of
idiocies they built into their s/w (why can't anyone make decent fax s/w??)...
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 21:04:01 -0600
From: "Lisa Vivian Saffel"
Subject: how do we find "net clock" for Mac
How do we find and download "Net Clock" for Macintosh?
Does it work with a non-Power-Macintosh?
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:47:15 -0500
From: Tim wood
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #109
Ricl Nible wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Hi,
I am afraid you will have to pay for the upgrade. Free updaters are only
available among minor version changes e.g. 4.0 to 4.02. To get an undate
>From 1.02 to 2.0x you will have to pay the update from Claris. But of
cause, since ClarisWorks is now at 4.04 you will have to update from 1.02
to 4.04. I assume it will cost just as much as buying a new licence.
If you want to know if there are updates for the 1.0x versions available
go to Claris home page under http://www.claris.com/.
Sorry I cannot provide a more satisfying answer.
cheers
Andrew
Actually, what you can do is call Claris' replacement media line
(1-800-544-8554) and ask for replacement disks for either 2.x or 3.x
(can't remember the final versions of either off the top of my head).
You'll pay the shipping and handling ($13 I believe) but they will send
the copy out since you own 4.0 (at least that's how I read your post...)
Tim
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 02:45:32 +0100
From: Ingraf Informatica Grafica
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #109
>Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:46:13 -0000
>From: [email protected] (Nicola Evoli)
>Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #107
>
>To ALL.
>
>I have a PERSONAL LASER WRITER NT and until now (30,000 copies) I have had
>no problem at all, on the countrary I was very proud of it.
>
>Just a month ago, while printing documents and after the machine was in
>perfectly regular st.by, I noticed that after the green display lamp was
>flashing as usual while ooading the document into the printer, at the
>moment of the laser printing, both alarm lamps (paper and paper jam)
>started to flash together and no printing was coming out. The PRINTMONITOR
>suggested to call Apple Service. So I did. The first time they replaced the
>scanner unit (very expensive, over $ 480 all incl) and although I was
>skeptic I did it for love of this machine instead of buying a new one
>(30,000 copies are not many yet!). After 2 weeks of very low use, the same
>problem again. This time happened gradually: the printer began to print
>progressively shorter pages, cutting out the bottom of the genuine page.
>They replaced the scanner unit again free of charge. After 2 hours the same
>problem as at the very beginning. Now they have the machine under more
>severe tests.
>
>I wonder if is anybody there with knowledge of this printer and if this
>problem is related to something already known such as little electric bugs.
>I have the impression they replaced the scanner unit but not the source of
>the problem.
I'm Apple Service here in Valladolid-Spain, I have one printer with the
same problem. Check fuser temperature with printer on, if this is not
hot, the problem is fuser, if this is hot, check the laser assembly, is
very probably your problem is here, look at the board and check if this
is burn below one small chip.
Excuse my poor English
Jose Luis del Olmo
Ingraf, Informatica Grafica
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 01:14:03 -0400
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: Internet Config & System 7.5.3 (Q)
Dear Digest Readers,
Another System 7.5.3/PowerMac 7200 incompatibility:
1. I load without extensions.
2. I run the Internet Config 1.2 application.
3. I click on the file transfer box in the upper right hand corner of
the internet config window.
4. The Mac does not register mouse events whether I click in the menu
bar or desktop, and I am forced to force quit.
Is there a newer version of Internet Config planned or available for
the OpenTransport 1.1 anytime soon? I just got Internet Config as part
of the new CE Software's WebAranger 2.0. Looks like WebAranger depends
on Internet Config to launch my web browser, and I can't get there
because step #3 above does not work. Of course I can copy/paste, but
that defeats the purpose. This is especially true because it has an
"agent" program that will search the validity of sites in your
bookmarks to see if they still exist. Without the helper application
in Internet Config the agent won't work! Hecht, and it says it is
PowerPC native. As MacWareHouse doesn't have a MBG I am stuck with
it, and $80 down the drain until Internet Config is fixed.
Just thought you all might be interested.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected] (please e-mail replies)
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:43:44 +0200
From: Matti Zemack
Subject: Modem can't use the ModemPort
Hi all macers,
I usually get really good advice from this list. And sometimes I even give
some.
So now the time has come to ask next question. I know that this question might
already
have been answered, but I was so behind in Info-Mac reading that I had to trash
quite a
lot of Digests the other week...
The problem:
Sometimes my computers (PM7100/66 & Radius 81/110) can't get in contact with
their
modems (sportster 28,8). It says that such-and-such ports are in use. Until
now,
I've
solved this by crawling behind the mac and moving the modemcable from say the
modem-
port to the printer-port, opening the Control-Panel (ConfigPPP) and changing
ports.
It has worked for quite some while now.
So, my family of grey machines on my desk got bigger. A new friend, a HP4ML
laser printer
arrived. This is a PS-printer so it has to sit in the PrinterPort and having
Appletalk ON.
The modem is of course upset because she is much smaller than the
laserprinter.
But the
computer doesn't like this fight, and the computers way of solving it is not
letting the
modem work of the modemport. (The computer says that the port is engaged).
And there is now way of letting the modem use its port.
The owner, Me, wants these three machines to be friends, and all work at the
same time,
but how?
Please help me, answer by e-mail to ---->>>> [email protected]
thanks,
Matti Zemack, Stockholm, Sweden
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 11:00:00 -0700
From: [email protected] (Ray Rizos)
Subject: Modem Script
Would someone who has experienced and solved this problem please help.
I use a Hays Ptima 288 ( Fax ) modem. I have it set up with the simple
script of AT&F as the innitialization string. This string has worked
reasonably well in the past but at the time I did not downlaod large time
consuming graphics files. Recently my modem has an echo failure every half
hour or so, making it frustrating if not impossible to D/L or e-mail
anything sizable.
1. My local IP gave me a couple of scripts but I cannot even dial out
when I try them. ( non macers I suppose ).
2. I normally use a second phone line which is the one that fails
often. When I go to my regular phone line the situation improves
dramatically. This probably indicates a noisy telephone line?? and possibly
supports my IPs claim that they have no problems at their end
3. Do I have to go after my Telco and what can I insist they do.
4. Is there an innitialization string which improves the ability of
the modem to handle noise or other drop out related causes. I am trying to
read the manual but having a lot of difficulty understanding the various
options.
Your collective help in this matter will be appreciated. If mailed directly
I will post a resume of responses.
TIA.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:04:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Don Edberg
Subject: postscript program
Hello,
I have located a postscript program that is supposed to put dynamic
document names in MSWord 5 documents. However, I keep getting postscript
errors. Can anyone help suggest what to do to make it work?
the text is repeated below:
%% Print document name in 10pt Helvetica, starting at beginning
%% of next Word paragraph. Make sure paragraph size is at least
%% 10pt or the name will not print.
%% Code by Ken Hughes (UBC) and Walter Smith (Apple).
.gsave .para. 0setgray
/Helvetica findfont 10 scalefont setfont 0 2 moveto
(Document: ) show statusdict /jobname get
/$jn exch def $jn length 1 sub -1 0
{ dup $jn exch get 58 eq
{ 1 add $jn exch dup $jn length exch sub getinterval show exit }
if 0 eq { $jn show } if } for grestore
thanks,
don e.
* e-mail: [email protected] * Dr. Donald Edberg (Don) *
* phone: 1-714-896-5210 * McDonnell-Douglas Aerospace *
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 96 18:28:02 -0500
From: "Jason P. Torrey"
Subject: PowerMac Recall???
Today (5/9/96) on CNN Headline News' 5:00pm CST program, the Financial
part of the program had some information about Apple's PowerMac,
Performas, and PowerBook possibly having problems and needing to be
(possibly) recalled. I saw only the closing portion of the segment...can
anyone clarify and/or expand this issue?
Thanks,
Jason Torrey
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 12:39:24 -0500
From: Barry Campbell
Subject: Preformatted Macintosh Diskettes
As many correspondents noted earlier this week, IBM-preformatted
diskettes can easily be reformatted on the Macintosh, and, with PC
Exchange installed, read directly.
I just wanted to provide a pointer to a resource that I've been
enjoying:
3.5 inch diskettes, preformatted for Macintosh!
The only ones I've been able to regularly find at the local office
supplies store are manufactured/distributed by Memorex/Telex; the
Memorex part number for a box of 10 preformatted disks is 3202-3671, and
they're the same price as comparable-quality blank or IBM-preformatted
diskettes.
I haven't had a single one of them test out as bad-out-of-the-box, and
I've probably gone through a couple hundred by now (I distribute
documents and files to customers on a pretty regular basis.)
I have no affiliation with the manufacturer, and your mileage may vary.
-- Barry Campbell * *
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 96 06:39 GMT-0400
From: [email protected] (Laurence Hawkins)
Subject: Problems Downloading Netscape Update
I have been using Netscape 1.1N for ages with total satisfaction, but now
feel I should move up to 2.02. For the past several days I have been trying
to download from a Netscape.com address, but every time I reach the point
of 2.4 MB downloaded (out of the total of 2.691 MB) I get a "disk full"
message, which is quite untrue, as I have 500 MB empty space on my HD.
I have a IIsi, running on 7.1, with external APS drive, and am getting onto
the net through a SupraFax 288 modem, on a PPP/TCP connection. I have no
problems surfing the net with my old 1.1N, and overall the setup is very
stable. So what is it about this particular download ?
Laurence Hawkins
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:15:00 -0400
From: [email protected] (LUIS SEPULVEDA)
Subject: Problem with Style Writer 1200
Hi, I have a problem with a StyleWriter 1200. This printer is sharing with
3 computers, but one of these (powerpc 7200 with 7.5.3 system) can't seting
the paper size (Us letter) . Also, in other printer, a Quadra 700 (7.5.1)
computer can't print while not restarting.
=BF Is a problem with a 7.5.x version of system?
Please replay me to my e-mail. Thanks !.- ([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 01:10:54 -0700
From: [email protected] (Mike Blackwell)
Subject: Recommendations for color laser printers?
(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
comp.sys.mac.printing)
At the print shop for which I am graphic designer, we have an occasional
need for color proofs. Most of our work is done in FreeHand 5.5, and most
files are under 100K: rarely do we do anything really fancy.
Our main concerns are:
* Cost
* Prints on plain 20# bond paper (not special stock)
* Photographic-quality printed scans (we'd like to print color business cards)
Secondary concerns:
* Speed
* Prints on 8.5x11 card stock
* Prints on 11x17 plain paper
I'm thinking a 720-dpi inkjet would probably suffice for the main
concerns, with Freedom of Press installed for when we do weird PostScript
stuff (which is rare). I understand, though, that inkjets can be rather
slow. Suggestions?
For those replying from comp.sys.mac.printing, e-mail replies are
preferred; I read too many newsgroups already.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 11:35:23 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jason Sparks)
Subject: SCSC id Problems!
I just bought an external drive box, and a used SCSI
HD. How can I change the ID? It and my internal both have the 0 ID. I
can only get one to mount at a time, and I don't know how to change the ID
of you boot drive (I didn't think you could)? Please help me!
--
Json Sparks
[email protected]
A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing...
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 15:57:07 +0100
From: Francis Knight
Subject: SE/30 video repaired
Hi chaps,
In Digest #89 I wrote:
> After 5 years use, my trusty SE/30 is showing signs of capacitor failure
>in the video circuit; the screen is jittery in the horizontal direction, and
>the linearity is becoming poor.
My belated thanks to those who offered their advice.
Armed with that, and some non-ideal-valued capacitors, I plunged in one
free Sunday afternoon. The first thing I noticed was that the existing
capacitor was of higher voltage rating than I expected; almost as if Apple
had been reading Larry Pina's books! The second thing I noticed was that
replacing it didn't make much difference to the problem, but wiggling the
nearby cable harness on connector P1 did!
So I disengaged the plug a few times to scrape off any oxide on the
contacts, and just in case I was disturbing some cracked solder joints, I
de-soldered those in the vicinity and re-did them with fresh solder. The
original capacitor went back in.
The machine's perfectly happy now.
Incidentally, somebody once mentioned here that the last SE/30's built
actually received 32-bit clean ROMs. Does anyone know how to identify these
machines or ROMs?
Cheers,
Francis
------------------------------
Date: 13 May 1996 11:27:51 +1000
From: [email protected] (Isaac Balbin)
Subject: Shutdown/Restart don't work under 7.5.3 on a MacIIsi
The finder crashes. 9Mb Ram. Happens with or without VM.
I have zapped PRAM (although I couldn't use Techtool 1.09
because it/the finder crashed when trying to restart the mac!).
I had installed a clean pristing 7.5 and then the updater to 7.5.3.
With all extensions off (via extensions manager),
trying to restart occasionaly came up with a Type 10 error.
Any ideas?
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 01:18:15 -0600
From: Chris Peyton
Subject: Simple Player
If possible, could someone email me and let me know where I can download
Simple Player for the Mac. I am new to the net and recently downloaded
a movie preview and can't watch it because it says I don't have simple
player. I have searched all over for something to open mov. or avi.
type files any help would be greatly appreciated.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:40:12 -0500
From: [email protected] (Charlie Summers)
Subject: SUMMARY: Mac and Win95 w/Unix Server
Folks;
First, a quick apology for taking so long to post this summary; things
have been a little busy around here.
The original question:
> Does _anyone_ know of a file-sharing protocol that can be used under
> Unix as a file server for both the Mac and Win machines? The goal of this
> exercise is to set up a mini-network using TCP/IP as the underlying layer,
> allowing for EMAIL (relatively simple) and file serving (here, I'm stuck);
> all using non-commercial (shareware ok, if at a reasonable cost) software
> for both the server and client ends. This system will _not_ be connected to
> the Internet, rather a simple LAN exercise.
The answer, it seems, is so obvious I missed it completely. The trick is
to use CAP (or Netatalk) for the Mac and NFS (or Samba for SMB) for the PC
to share _the same filesystem._ Although we haven't had time to test
database record locking and the like between the two protocols, it has
worked for respondants to the original post. And I am personally embarassed
that I didn't think of it myself, since it seems to be an elegant solution
to the client issue. (One user noted that a 80486 running Linux had no
problem handling serving while used as an X-Windows workstation on a small
network, so mammoth horsepower for the Linux box doesn't seem to be
required.)
My thanks to Robert Hill, Stefan Brix, and any other kind soul who
responded that I might have forgotten. (That memory thing goes as we get
older...)
Charlie Summers
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 20:58:36 -0400
From: Jeff Frankel
Subject: Syquest EZ135 vs. Zip
A number of persons have stated the ejection process for EZ135
cartridges as follows: drag the cartridge icon to the trash, push
the eject button on the drive, and slide the lock/unlock lever to the
right to push the cartridge out of the drive. This is true as far as
it goes. However, a software setting on the included Silverlining
Lite control panel eliminates the need to push the eject button.
Just drag the icon to the trash, slide over the lever, and your
cartridge is out.
I'm extremely pleased with the EZ135 I purchased several months
ago. As far as speed is concerned, the EZ 135 is much, much faster
than the 250 meg internal Quantum drive that came with my
7100/66.
--
Jeff Frankel
Windsor, Maine USA
"Where the woodpecker pecks
and the porcupine plays"
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 19:30:28 -0800
From: glaston
Subject: T-shirts
My friendly local stationary supply superstore offers transfer paper
for Cannon printers. Once the image is printed on the transfer paper,
it can apparently be ironed onto a T-shirt.
Does anybody know whether these transfers will work in my Epson Stylus
Color II, and if so, how well?
TIA
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 22:57:19 -0400
From: [email protected] (Raphael N. Levi)
Subject: Thank You, all
This a general thank you to all those who answered my previous post about
transporting a data base from the ASpple // environment to File Maker Pro.
It really worked out with all the help I got from the kind readers of IM!!!!
I'll try to mention all of those who were kind enough to answer my SOS call:
Bob Beason Al Bloom Cindy Krueger
David Bourne Anthony Stuckey Vincent Cayenne
Gary Danaher Ron Richter Bob Austin
Michael Burton Joern Wennerstroem
I hope I didn't miss anyone!
Thanks again to every one of you kind people. I find it very heartening
indeed that there are so many of you who are willing to come to the aid of
a total stranger in distress, I really wonder whether this kind of
cameraderie also exists in the IBM world?
At any rate, if anyone at all needs help with a related problem, I'll do
all I can to help. You can reach me at [email protected].
Well, the sun is shining again and all's right with the world.
Affectionately,
Raphael N. Levi
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:53:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: ROBERT_BROCKMAN
Subject: Upgrading LW320's RAM
asked about upgrading his LaserWriter 320's RAM from 2Mb to 4 or 8Mb...
I bought my LW320 and a 2Mb upgrade from MacZone about 18 months ago. I
installed the upgrade myself before I had even turned the LW320 on. I got
stuck at one point, called Apple's 1-800-SOS-APPL line, and spoke to a helpful
engineer who, of course, couldn't tell me what to do, but offered considerable
help by "thinking out loud" how to solve my problem
.I'd check the old familiar mail order places... I tend to favor MacConnection
and sometimes MacZone. I don't like MacWarehouse simply because of their inane
advertising ("Hi! I'm Tonya! Call me now to order your very own Ethernet
transceiver!" gag gag gag).
I'd also question your authorized dealer again... Apple is still selling the
320, and they advertise you can upgrade (of course, I bought my SE/30 with the
assurance that Apple would upgrade my ROMs to 32-bit clean ones, too).
Good luck!
Robert Brockman, aka [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 14:53:44 +0100
From: Ingraf Informatica Grafica
Subject: URGENT!!!
>I'm Apple Service here in Valladolid-Spain, I have one printer with the same
problem. Check >fuser temperature with printer on, if this is not hot,
the problem is fuser, if this is hot, >check the laser assembly, is very
probably your problem is here, look at the board and check >if this is
burn below one small chip.
Sorry, the problem is NOT the laser assembly, is the scanner assembly,
the rest is the same.
Jose Luis del Olmo
Ingraf, Informatica Grafica
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 23:25:22 +0100
From: [email protected] (Bill Ingraham)
Subject: Using two servers
I have just moved for the summer and want to stay with the server I had in
Florida, to get my mail, etc. The long distance phone call will make it too
costly to use that for browsing the Internet. But there is a server
locally that is not too expensive and I want to sign up with it as well.
How do I go about configuring Config PPP and MacTCP so that I have each
separate and can choose which direction to go? Is there anything else that
will need to be changed?
Any help will me much appreciated.
Bill Ingraham
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 11:07:51 -0400
From: [email protected] (Lyman Green)
Subject: Weird beeping on startup problem?
(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
comp.sys.mac.system)
Well.. here's a problem I've not seen before. For whatever reason, a
co-worker's 180C has started exhibiting weird behavior. When he boots up,
it emits a weird beep, then after the desktop mounts, it does a rising
scale beep, then the keyboard is useless. Keypresses result in a beeping,
though mouse actions are ok.
Some notes:
1. It doesn't happen with extensions off.
2. He re-installed system software, and it still happens.
3. No viruses or other problems that MacTools Pro could find.
4. I have been unsucessful at finding the offending extension/cdev...
I've moved deleted everything I could find that was non-apple, including
invisible Ramdoubler files.
We are aware that the problem could probably be solved by copying off
data, and then starting on a cleaned hard drive from scratch, but it's the
principle of the thing.
Any ideas or heard of this problem? Thanks in advance!
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Lyman C. Green, Jr.
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 9:11:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Frank J. Nagy/Get this cheese to Sickbay!"
Subject: Why keep files as Binhex .hqx
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #109, [email protected] (Gary Turnbull)
askes why not switch from .HQX files to .SIT files in the archives. His
primary point is that .SIT files are smaller and would take less space
and less bandwidth for downloading. While he presents good arguments,
consider some countering points:
1. Disk space is pretty cheap these days, so the storage is somewhat of a
moot point. However, the download time still remains valid.
2. Some people may not download directly to their Mac but got though and
intermediate system. Since the .HQX file is pure ASCII and constrained
to be less than 80 characters per line, many problems with data corruption
are bypassed. Also, note that (like myself) people using intermediary
systems do so for many reasons including having utilties/scripts to automate
the downloads, higher performance connections/systems, etc.
3. There is the problem of getting the file type/creator set properly. The
.HQX file is a text file and many utilities already exist that will decode
it properly. If you download a .SIT file, you will likely have to use a
utility to change the file type/creator before you can unpack it.
4. One nice feature of the .HQX files being ASCII, is that a descriptive header
can be prepended before the encoded portion. This might be as simple as
one line with name, version and a short description or as much as a more
detailed description of what the packaged software does. In many cases,
the descriptions are the same as what appears in the abstracts (.ABS
files).
Having the encoded information and the descriptions joined in this way makes
managing the storage easier (you can never lose just 1) and allows users to
examine the package without having to decode and unpack it.
Given all these points, I believe that having the archives consist of .HQX
files
is still the preferred method.
On another note, I believe that at least one of the Info-Mac mirror sites makes
the decoded .SIT/.CPT archives available in binary form rather than as .HQX
files.
Such a situation means we can have the best of both solutions.
= Dr. Frank J. Nagy "Evil, wicked, mean and nasty system mugger"
= Fermilab Computing Division/Operating Systems Support Dept
= CDF/D0 Systems group leader *and* OSS Associate Dept. Head
= Internet: [email protected]
= USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/369 Batavia, IL 60510
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