Info-Mac Digest V14 #162
Posted: July 12th, 1996, 4:00 am
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 11 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 162
Today's Topics:
[*] ART Music 3.5.3c
[*] FinderNote 1.2.1 - Amazing note utility!
[*] Johns WP Glossary Macros 1.1
[*] Jon's Commands 1.7
[*] MacUpdate 3.5 - File Synchronization
[*] News4U
[*] QBStatistics 0.5b
[*] TidBITS#335/08-Jul-96
[*] trueColor for HyperCard
(Q) Microsoft/Kingston RAM offer good?
[A] exe
[A] PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
[A] PLEASE HELP! How do I tile an image for my web page background?
[A] problems with GV Teleport Platinum on 8500/120
[Q] What does this MacsBug message mean?
Action needed or Apple becomes a looser!
AppleShare error at Startup
Auto-saving in Hypercard
BBEdit 4.0.1 update
cyberdog and error 11 (Q)
Help: I need an overseas Apple Service Provider!
HP DeskWriter 560c on network..?
HTML question
Netscape stutters (freezes periodicaly) when using SLIP/PPP (Q)
OpenTransport failure
PB SCSI-Disk
PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
PowerBook 230/Duo + Netscape Conflict?
Printer/fax/scanner/copier for Mac
Problem: Now Utilities and PB 5300
Removing sections of Netscape bookmark file (Q)
Replacement for "Directory Assistance II"?
SE-20 (R)
sharing modem/ppp service?
Simple Text question (R)
Sun HD as external Mac drive - Please Help
Unprotect Source Code
WriteNow
XWindows Client for Power Mac
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:32 -0700
From: (Timothy A Herzog)[email protected]
Subject: [*] ART Music 3.5.3c
ART Music is a translator that converts Finale EPS files to Illustrator
format, so you can edit a page of music just like a graphic (add color,
other graphics, move notes, etc.). ART Music is FAT; it runs on 680x0
computers and runs native on Power Macintoshes.
This bug fix corrects a problem that causing inconsistent crashing on 68000
computers on startup. Sorry, folks, but honestly, it wasn't my fault.
Shareware: $20.00
Timothy Herzog Two Bits Worth, Inc.
[email protected] +1 (612) 227-2920
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/art-music-353c.hqx; 187K]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:03 -0700
From: (Jae Ho Chang)[email protected]
Subject: [*] FinderNote 1.2.1 - Amazing note utility!
FinderNote is a simple text editor, but unlikely others, its
documents can be read directly on Finder without any other
application. This is very useful for writing a note somewhere
on your hard disk, for example, for a note about the contents
of a folder, or a file, and so forth.
FinderNote is a freeware!
* System Requirements
System 7.1 or later.
Finder 7.1.4 or later.
Clipping Extension.
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-
Mac CD-ROM.
Thanks!
Jae Ho Chang
eMusicas softwares
[Archived as /info-mac/text/finder-note-121.hqx; 38K]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:07 -0700
From: (John Rethorst)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Johns WP Glossary Macros 1.1
These provide an easy and elegant glossary featu
3.x for the Macintosh. Up to 26 glossary entries are available. A menu the
width of your screen shows you as much of each entry as will fit. Click on
the entry or type its identifying letter to place the text in your
document.
New in this version: documents how to assign keystrokes directly to
individual glossary entries, and the glossary file can include extra
columns of notes or anything else in addition to the glossary entries
themselves.
Free. May be included on UMich and Sumex CDs.
John Rethorst
[Archived as /info-mac/text/wp/johns-glossary-macros-11.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:11 -0700
From: (Jon Pugh)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Jon's Commands 1.7
Here is Jon's Commands 1.7, my collection of AppleScript scripting
additions. This version adds the "snag object" command which is only
really of use to application developers. It's purpose is to write an
object specifier to disk so that it can be used in a program in lieu of
writing a bunch of obnoxious code to do the same thing. I've included
sample code showing how to use this saved object from C.
You can get a complete listing of Jon's Commands and all my software from
my web site:
http://www.infoworkshop.com/~jonpugh/
Jon's Commands is free for non-commercial use and only $25 for commercial use.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/jons-commands-17-osax.hqx; 150K]
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:27 -0700
From: (Richard E. Fiegle)[email protected]
Subject: [*] MacUpdate 3.5 - File Synchronization
MacUpdate is a file synchronization utility. It can do forward and
reverse file synchronizations, and can do synchronized deletion of
files. Works with floppies, hard disks, removables, any AppleTalk
network (including EtherNet, Netware, Windows NT, and ARA), and
pretty much any "disk" that can be mounted on the Mac's desktop.
Works fine with system 6 or 7, from Mac Plus to the latest PCI Macs.
Includes tools to automate the synchronization process, including
scheduling timers, and many options for what and how to synchronize.
Also works great as a simple backup or mirroring program. Speeds up
backups by only backing up the files that have been changed. Lets you
work with your Mac while a backup/synchronization/update is going on.
Good documentation is included, and the program is very easy to use.
Shareware: $5
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
Thanks,
Richard E. Fiegle
FIGLEAF Development,
Author, MacUpdate
Prefered E-Mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mac-update-35.hqx; 120K]
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:30 -0700
From: (Jan Dockx)[email protected]
Subject: [*] News4U
News4U is an AppleScript. It gets URL's pages in batch using Netscape
Navigator=81. The URLs to get should be listed in a TEXT-file.
Prerequisites:
You need 2 things, other than AppleScript, to be able to use this script:
Netscape Navigator=81 (tested with version 2.02) and the "Text Files" osax
(because Read/Write Commands in AS 1.1 are broken badly under the PowerPC,
according to Peter N. Lewis).
News4U is freeware and I don't even care for the copyright. But I'd be
pleased if you would mention me if you use parts of the script.
Jan Dockx ([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/ntscp/news-4-u-as.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:29 -0700
From: (Nick Zeitlin)[email protected]
Subject: [*] QBStatistics 0.5b
This is QB Statistics 0.5b, a small program that calculates
stats for an NFL Quarterback. It should be placed in /game/.
It can be included on any info-mac CD-ROM.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/qb-statistics-05b.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 23:23:29 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#335/08-Jul-96
TidBITS#335/08-Jul-96
After a week off, we return with the second part of Geoff's detailed look
at the PowerPC chip and other bits of Macintosh architecture. Adam weighs
in with advice for people who have to give Internet presentations, and
Tonya looks at a couple of Web browser plug-ins that help browsers both
talk and listen, along with a new mailing list called Disabled-Talk.
MailBITS about the release of the commercial System 7.5.3 and BBEdit 4.0.1
round out the issue.
Topics:
MailBITS/08-Jul-96
Plain Talk on the Internet
Presenting the Internet
Fishing For Chips: Part 2
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-335.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:15 -0700
From: (Alain Stalder)[email protected]
Subject: [*] trueColor for HyperCard
trueColor provides an intuitive way to work in color in HyperCard.
You can give buttons and fields colors and color pictures.
Buttons can have color icons.
You can cut, copy and paste color pictures and icons
to and from the clipboard.
You can move fields and buttons in color.
A help stack with extensive documentation is included.
trueColor requires HyperCard 2.2 or later*,
a 68020 processor or higher (including any PowerPC processor).
Some features require 32-Bit QuickDraw (included in Sys 7).
* trueColor runs very slowly on PowerMacs in Hypercard 2.2
if you have Connectix SpeedDoubler installed.
trueColor is free for non-commercial use.
Alain Stalder
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/true-color-hc.hqx; 94K]
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 09:26:26 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul Brians)
Subject: (Q) Microsoft/Kingston RAM offer good?
Probably many of you have received the "Microsoft Empowerment Pack"
containing a free CD-ROM with Internet Explorer 2.0, Internet Assistant 2.0
for Word, Internet Assistant for Excel, and the Microsoft Word 6.0.1a.
Included is an offer for 8 megs of RAM for $69 from Kingston. I need more
RAM, and this seems like a good deal; my local college store says the
price of RAM is plunging and it should be quite reasonable by September,
but I have trouble imagining it going this low. Anybody got an expert
opinion on this deal?
By the way, I hate to admit it, but MacUser was right in saying Explorer is
more efficient to use than Netscape, almost solely because it loads text
before graphics. I assume the Netscape folks have taken note and will fix
this in their next release.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 14:27:57 -0700
From: [email protected] (kee nethery)
Subject: [A] exe
>How do I open a file, on a Mac, with the "exe" subscript?
>TIA
>Bill Ingraham
Softwindows (Insignia Solutions) to emulate a PC in software or one of the
DOS cards (Apple, Orange Micro and I belien Reply?) to actually run the PC
software in an intel chip.
Kee Nethery
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 13:32:58 +0200
From: [email protected] (Oliver Hammrich)
Subject: [A] PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
"Linda L. Andrews" wrote:
>What do I do. I saved a file and can't open it up without PK-Zip.
>
>Can you do that on a Macintosh?
Hello Linda,
try "ZipIt" at info-mac/cmp/zip-it-135.hqx
Happy Mac-zipping,
Oliver.
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:47:52 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ed Costello)
Subject: [A] PLEASE HELP! How do I tile an image for my web page background?
If what you want to do is have your image repeat throughout the background
of your page, then all you need to do is .... nothing. Use the HTML tag:
If the image is smaller than the size of the window (or frame), the web
browser is smart enough to repeat the image enough times to fill it.
I hope I understood the question correctly...
_ Ed
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 11:09:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Mark E. Ingram"
Subject: [A] problems with GV Teleport Platinum on 8500/120
In a recent Info-Mac Digest, I wrote of having lately tested "various
models of Hayes, Supra, Boca, USRobotics, Motorola and, most recently,
tried out two variations of Dayna PC-card modems for the PowerBook. (My
only GV experience was with a bundled 14.4kbps model, and that didn't work
out too well.)"
I went on to say "that for maximum compatibility and best speeds over any
given telephone line, the USR Courier 'V.Everything' [seems to be] way
ahead of the pack (but also [is] the most expensive)."
Over the past few days, however, we have confirmed one glaring exception
to this statement: In the wee hours of the morning of July 4, a line of
Level 5 thunderstorms passed overhead, accompanied by severe
cloud-to-ground lightning. At the time, all modems were physically
disconnected from the telephone and electric lines, as hard experience has
taught that in our rural area, even good surge suppression is not always
effective against lightning.
However, there did occur some kind of damage to the local Telco's
equipment or lines, as evidenced by a constant, loud, obnoxious hum on our
telephone line. We immediately reported it to the Telco, and although
they acknowledged the problem and said that it would be fixed "right
away," after four days it still is present.
So to get to the point: With this background hum on the telephone line,
neither the USR V.Everything nor the two models of Dayna will even
*connect* at all to two different modem banks. If these were the only
(three!) modems we had, we would be "dead in the water" for no telling how
many more days.
On the other hand, the Supra V.32bis *will* connect, though usually after
negotiating down to 9600 bps, and with a fair number of RE, TE and RT
alerts on its LED display. This is a bit slow for Netscape, but quite
usable for e-mail. Bully for the Supra.
One other point: One respondent to my original posting suggested that the
observed differences between modem models may have been due to not having
installed one or more of OT 1.1, System 7.5.3 Rev. 2, FreePPP, current
modem driver files and the like. All of these *are* in fact present, and
the reported differences in modem performance have been confirmed over
some six different models of Mac - all of them running current software.
I strongly believe that there are important hardware/firmware/software
differences between modem models themselves - and none of them are very
close to perfect. While exhaustive fiddling with various modem
initialization strings *might* make a difference with our "hum" problem,
what is the point in doing so when the Supra just cranks up and *works*?
Regards,
Mark E. Ingram
[email protected]
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Date: 05 Jul 1996 09:12:44 +0000
From: Mephistophilis
Subject: [Q] What does this MacsBug message mean?
This question is the latest episode of a 9-month quest to
identify the origin of continuing crashes and freezes on
my Q700. At this point almost everything except the
casing has been changed and I am beginning
to wonder if my PC-owning colleagues might not be
right after all 8-(. Help/comment/advice will be very
much appreciated.
If I invoke MacsBug deliberately using the Reset(?) button
with no apps. running the log reproducibly contains the
following message:
>The heap at 000021D0 is bad
>Free bytes in heap does not match zone header
My diagnostic utilities (Disk First Aid, Apple Personal
Diagnostics, Norton Disk Doctor, TechTool Pro) find
nothing amiss. Is MacsBug telling me something of
significance?
TIA -
Fergus Lalor
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 14:06:55 +0200
From: [email protected] (Andreas Heidtting)
Subject: Action needed or Apple becomes a looser!
Action needed or Apple becomes a looser!
This action item is from:
(Ron Gut)
The Boston Globe on line is holding a survey to
pick 1996's winners and losers. Apple is one of the entries in this
survey, And is currently in the Loser bracket by a 65 to 27 margin. Can
we change this?
The survey is at
Do you believe in Macintosh? Go here:
and sign up for active duty.
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:45:13 -0700
From: "Sandor W. Sklar"
Subject: AppleShare error at Startup
Hello all.
I've been experience a little problem the past few weeks; one that I cannot
attribute to any changes in my system configuration. What happens is that
when I turn on my computer the extensions begin to load, and then when the
icon for the AppleShare extention appears (I use Conflict Catcher to see
all startup items), an error dialog box pops up that says something to the
effect of, "An AppleShare error has occured. Please activate AppleTalk in
the Chooser." I click OK, and startup continues as usual, with no problems
in operation.
Now I know I've been able to startup with AppleTalk off in the past without
getting that message. And I don't have any problems turning AppleTalk on
and off after the startup process is complete. I'm using a PB Duo 230
8/500, with System 7.5.3r2, and I have experienced this problem when I've
had the Assistant Toolbox extension loaded and disabled.
Any clues?
--Sandy Sklar
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:13:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jacob Palme
Subject: Auto-saving in Hypercard
Probably because I use too many extensions, my Macintosh crasher
rather often. To avoid losing information, I therefore save documents
I am editing frequenly using the Save command provided by most
software.
However, Hypercard has no save command. Hypercard is supposed to
do this automatically, but I have found that sometimes when the
computer crashes data I have entered into Hypercard has not
been saved.
Question: Is there a way to ensure that Hypercard does save
new data, even if the computer crashes? If so, how?
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 09:26:40 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul Brians)
Subject: BBEdit 4.0.1 update
I downloaded the BBEdit 4.0.1 update and am really impressed with its
abilities, but I was momentarily confused because some of the old
option-command shortcuts have been changed to control-command ones. If your
old keystrokes don't work, take a look at the menus.
I don't understand why Bare Bones sends out a free t-shirt (X-Large only)
to all purchasers of 4.0 but doesn't ship a printed manual. The online one
is ok but mine printed out without page numbers! (I put them in with pencil
so I can use the table of contents and index.)
Anyway, it's a wonderful tool. I worked with the free version for two years
before springing for 4.0, and it's worth every penny. The ability to save
html pages directly to my Web site is a treat.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 17:48:40 -0500
From: Paul Sheldon
Subject: cyberdog and error 11 (Q)
I have a mac 8500, system 7.5.3 and the most advanced cyberdog, but get
error 11 crash when I do internet search.
Long ago, at the very beginnings of cyberdog, it worked with 7.5.1 and
helped me dig up stuff on the internet.
As instructed, I've turned virtual memory on and couldn't find an adobe
type reunion which was a known incompatibility, but found ATM and nixed it
with extensions manager for a reboot to no avail.
Any ideas out there?
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:28:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: Help: I need an overseas Apple Service Provider!
Greetings. I'm in the USA, and I need a very small part that I can't
buy here: a latch for my Duo 210.
Here's the story: I bought my 210 with a broken latch. Upon inquiry,
I discovered that Apple *refused* to sell the part to my service
provider (and of course they wouldn't sell it to me directly). They
insist that I mail the Powerbook to them and pay them $160 to fix it,
which is patently absurd (it's a $5 part and a 15-minute job, honest;
I've been in there to get to broken one out).
Apple *will* however sell the part to their overseas service providers, on
the grounds that absolutely nobody in their right minds would send their
Duo to the US from overseas for this. So if you are an overseas Apple
Service Provider, or have a friendly one, and can order the part and send
it to me, I'll pay what it costs or trade something in kind, and be very,
very grateful.
Incidentally, nobody at Apple has had so much as a vaguely reasonable
excuse for this strange policy, though they have made up some pretty
interesting ones- "it has to be done in a cleanroom" is my favorite, or
how about "some service providers might not want to do it". I suspect
that it's because Apple makes a lot of money on this trivial (and probably
common) repair. I'd love to find out who makes these for Apple and buy a
large number at 50 cents each to give away.
I must say that as a confirmed Macintosh evangelist, freak and fan,
the attitude I've found at Apple recently has been very disheartening;
a bunch of folks at Customer Relations who had no idea what they were
doing went out of their way to defend an absurd policy with absurd
reasoning. They sounded scared.
Thanks,
Ethan Benatan
[email protected] http://www.pitt.edu/~ethan
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 11:12:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tim Biddle (317) 306-3258"
Subject: HP DeskWriter 560c on network..?
I know this one has probably been asked before, but I don't seem to recall
ever seeing it before.
I have an HP DeskWriter 560c that I want to share on our ethernet LAN. I have
tried the following:
1. Laserwriter Bridge. No luck. Only works with Apple printers, to the
best of my knowledge.
2. Dayna EtherPrint LocalTalk to Ethernet adapter. No luck. DeskWriter
drivers didn't recognize the printer on Ethernet.
Does anyone know of a way that I can share this printer? The main reason I
want to do this is that I want to print from my 8100, but both serial ports
are filled with a Geoport adapter and a ColorQuickCam. I suppose I could get
one of those serial port switching devices, but I would rather have a more
elegant solution. Something like getting an HP JetDirect print server is more
along my line.
Thanks.
Tim Biddle
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:35 -0400
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: HTML question
Dear Digest readers,
An HTML question.
I would like to do the following in HTML:
word definition................
subword definition.......
subword defintion.....
word word defintion.
Where there would appear to be 5 spaces between the word and defintion.
The browser is Netscape 2.0, and only Netscape 2.0.
Anybody know how to do this, and could you send me back a sample I could
test?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:12:24 +0900
From: [email protected] (Antony D'Emanuele)
Subject: Netscape stutters (freezes periodicaly) when using SLIP/PPP (Q)
I am having problems using Netscape on a PB5300c when connecting to the
Internet using PPP or SLIP. The browser stops at regular intervals (the
Netscape logo stops) and my whole system freezes until the Netscape logo
starts moving again. As you can imagine downloading is very slow and
frustrating as I can't do anything in the background. Anyone experienced a
similar problem?? (I am not using virtual memory, Netscape has 7MB of
memory allocated to it and I have 32MB RAM)
Tony D'Emanuele, [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:16:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Patrick V. Ford"
Subject: OpenTransport failure
I am having a very annoying problem using PPP on my PowerComputing PPC
135MHz with System 7.5.3. Up until yesterday, I was able to access the
Internet, get my e-mail, etc with Netscape and Eudora Pro without any
apparent problems. Now, PPP will make the modem connection but Netscape
says it can't find a socket and Eudora comes back with an error message
with some numbers(I left the paper with them written on it at home) or a
message about a "pesky" TCP error. I have deleted and re-installed the
OS, deleted old Pref files, turned on and off Extensions using Conflict
Catcher to no avail. If I boot off another hard disk with a nearly identical
configuration, the PPP connection works. I even tried copying the "good"
system folder to the problem side and rebooting, but it did not help.
I would appreciate help that makes me non-clueless. Please send reponces to
[email protected]
Patrick Ford, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:37:27 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ken Laskey)
Subject: PB SCSI-Disk
There has been a lot of discussion about connecting a PowerBook to a
desktop Mac and having the PB disk mount and accessible to its desktop bro.
What no one has explained is exactly how to do this. I have a SCSI cable
to attach my 5300 to a SCSI chain. Is this sufficient for connecting to my
IIsi or do you need a docking adaptor. Once the hardware is hooked up,
what is the boot procedure, i.e. what gets turned on in what order?
Hooking a PB up in this manner can be critical given that you can't boot
System 7.5 from a single floppy. My PowerBook disk crashed last week and
luckily I had a spare system on a Bernoulli disk. Booting holding down
DOCS skipped the damaged disk and MacTools took care of the rest. However,
a direct connect to my IIsi would have been more convenient.
Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:15 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
"Linda L. Andrews" asked
> What do I do. I saved a file and can't open it up without PK-Zip.
> Can you do that on a Macintosh?
Get "ZipIt", version 1.3.5, from http://www.awa.com/softlock/zipit/zipit.html
Best wishes, Christian.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:00:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: [email protected] (mark evans)
Subject: PowerBook 230/Duo + Netscape Conflict?
(thanks to all who helped me get my client's Powerbook connected to the
Internet... of course, now there is another problem! arrrgh)
This user had problems connecting a Geoport Mercury modem and Power Book
230/Duo to connect to our network. We tweaked the intit strings and solved
that problem. She can send and receive mail (and of course, log on), but
she is only able to download the default homepage (ISP's homepage), and if
she requests another site, it gives the "unable to make a network
connection" error. She has run into this problem on two other ISP's in
town. Can anyone shed any light on this particular characteristic of
Powerbooks, Netscape, and the 'net? She has tried this using a variety of
early Netscape versions -- all shareware.
help!
TIA.... mark evans
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:14:46 +0800
From: [email protected] (Ngiam Shih Tung)
Subject: Printer/fax/scanner/copier for Mac
There are a number of all-in-one beasts of the type mentioned above for
Wintels, but so far I have yet to see any for the Mac. Am I wrong? Or are
there any adapters like PowerPrint that will allow me to use PC-baed
machines on a
Mac ? PowerPrint documentation says that it can drive these machines as
printers, but it can't access the other functions.
Shih Tung
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 18:19:58 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ian S Robinson)
Subject: Problem: Now Utilities and PB 5300
I'm experiencing some problems with Now Utilities 5.0.1 on a Powerbook
5300cs 16/500 running system software 7.5.2 and Ram Doubler 1.6.2 (I've
also experienced the same problems with system software 7.5.3 plus revision
2). The problem is this: every now and then hierarchical menus fail to
appear: instead a greyed-out 'Empty' appears where the menus ought to
begin. Now Super Boomerang occasionally suffers from a similar problem: the
list of recent files and applications is often truncated, garbled or just
plain missing. I've switched off the Apple Menu Options control panel, but
this hasn't helped.
Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? Will upgrading to version 6
of NU solve help?
Thanks in advance,
Ian Robinson
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 19:42:47 -0400
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: Removing sections of Netscape bookmark file (Q)
Dear Digest readers,
Anybody make a program that strips the ADD_DATE*LAST_VISIT
sections out of the HTML text of Netscape bookmark files?
I have a list of over 1000 URLs with this format that I'd like to strip
out just that section of the URL.
If somebody knows how to do this with BBEdit Lite 3.5.1,
or some other program available on the Net, please e-mail me. The
solution should work on System 7.5.3 rev 2 PowerMac 7200.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: 07 Jul 1996 00:18:04 GMT
From: [email protected] (John Haywood)
Subject: Replacement for "Directory Assistance II"?
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:48:49 -0700, David Emery asked:
>>
Long ago (in a galaxy far away
I got the "Directory Assistance II"
extension with Norton Utilities. This rapidly became my 'favorite'
extension, with the substantial flexibility it provides in opening files.
(It replaces the standard "file open" dialog with an expanded dialong that
provides direct access to all disk volumes, a list of most recently visited
directories, and "my favorite directories". It also allows me to create a
directory or delete a file from within the "Open File" dialog.)
Now I understand that "Directory Assistance II" is A Bad Thing, that
it is not supported, and that it has been linked to lots of crashes,
particularly with System 7.5.3.
Can anyone recommend a good replacement?
>>
Same happened to me with SuperBoomerang when it got rolled into Now Utilities
(and just *where* is my upgrade notice, I ask??).
I'm now using Default Folder 2.6.1, which although not quite as feature rich
as Boomer, exacts way less toll on my system resources and provides the
following features:
(From the ReadMe)
* Set up a default folder for any or all applications.
* Switch among recently used folders from a pop-up menu.
* See available disk space and switch between disks from a pop-up menu.
* Click on a Finder window to show it in an Open or Save dialog.
* Create folders, get information (including changing name, type, and
creator), and move items to the Trash from within file dialogs.
* "Rebound" back to the last file you used.
* Make "Replace" the default option instead of "Cancel" when saving
a file with the same name as an existing file.
* Speed up the display of Open and Save dialogs by turning off custom
color icons in the file list.
Default Folder will operate on any Macintosh running System 7 or higher, and
is accelerated for PowerPC.
Cost:US$25
hth
John in Kobe
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:20 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: SE-20 (R)
Phil Coombs asked:
> I have acquired a Mac SE-20 with 4 meg RAM. I am trying to set it up for
> my father in Florida to use for e-mail.
>
> I am proceeding with setting it up for BBS connection to a service that
> has email access to the internet and could relay messages. However, I
> don't want to miss an opportunity if he could use the Mac for a direct
> ISP connection. Even if this could technically happen, I am sure it
> would be slow, but it might be worth it.
A Mac SE can run system 7, so there is no problem here. And the 4 mB
RAM should be sufficient to use Eudora and the related stuff (PPP, etc).
On my PPC-Mac, Eudora needs less than 500 KB RAM. You probably won't be
happy when you try to "surf on the web", since Netscape won't run on the
SE (it requires at least an 68020 processor; think the SE has an 68000
only).
Best wishes, Christian.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:10:39 EDT
From: Jeremy C Daniel
Subject: sharing modem/ppp service?
I've got 4 macs at home connected over
appleshare and one high speed modem which we've been moving
between the computers, what I'm wondering is
if there is a way to have them share the
modem with one machine acting as a server,
or for the machine recieving PPP signals
to retransmit it to the other machines?
I would be willing to use commercial software
if noone knows of any appropriate shareware
Thanks,
Jer
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:00 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: Simple Text question (R)
[email protected] (Eric Peloquin?) asked:
> I want to make Simple Text accept all text files whatever the size. Is
> there a way to do this with ResEdit?
No way. SimpleText relies on something called TexEdit, which is built
into the Mac system or ROM (probably in ROM), and this can not open larger
text files. Hacking around in SimpleText would not help.
Best wishes, Christian
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:28:50 +0000
From: [email protected] (Jens Eickhoff)
Subject: Sun HD as external Mac drive - Please Help
Hello Netters,
i have connected an old drive of our Sun workstations to my Mac to have a
drive to install MkLinux on. I have the following problems in formatting
the file:
With the MkLinux CD there comes the formatter program Apple HD/SC Setup,
version 7.3.5 which complains
"unable to locate a suitable drive connected to the SCSI port"
It simply does not seem to see the connected HD. I then switched over to my old
Apple HD SC Setup 3.0.1 (A/UX) which is already a rather old version. With
this SW I was able to initialize and partition the drive. Then I started
the Linux installer, it copied all the stuff from CD to the HD but then
when starting the Mac in Linux mode it hangs and nothing happens of the
disk. It seems as if the Mac too does not see the disk in Linux boot mode.
Any ideas? Thanks for support
Jens
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 02:40:44 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Unprotect Source Code
I need this very very badly, can anyone give me a source Code... to
Unprotect...
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 21:27:48 -0400
From: Daniele Conversi
Subject: WriteNow
Dear Sir,
I would appreciate it if you could send me an e-mail address for WriteNow
customer support .
Thanks
DC
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:08:09 -0400
From: [email protected] (The Opera Ghost)
Subject: XWindows Client for Power Mac
>Is there an equivalent to MacX for the PowerMac? Either an upgraded
>version of MacX or a program from another company would do. If not,
>what other solution to dvi previewing have people come up with.
>Thanks.
>
>Anthony Kroch
You might be interested in eXodus from White Pine Software.
http://www.wpine.com/macexods.html
I'm not dis/recommending it, just letting you know about it.
Chris
[email protected]
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 11 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 162
Today's Topics:
[*] ART Music 3.5.3c
[*] FinderNote 1.2.1 - Amazing note utility!
[*] Johns WP Glossary Macros 1.1
[*] Jon's Commands 1.7
[*] MacUpdate 3.5 - File Synchronization
[*] News4U
[*] QBStatistics 0.5b
[*] TidBITS#335/08-Jul-96
[*] trueColor for HyperCard
(Q) Microsoft/Kingston RAM offer good?
[A] exe
[A] PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
[A] PLEASE HELP! How do I tile an image for my web page background?
[A] problems with GV Teleport Platinum on 8500/120
[Q] What does this MacsBug message mean?
Action needed or Apple becomes a looser!
AppleShare error at Startup
Auto-saving in Hypercard
BBEdit 4.0.1 update
cyberdog and error 11 (Q)
Help: I need an overseas Apple Service Provider!
HP DeskWriter 560c on network..?
HTML question
Netscape stutters (freezes periodicaly) when using SLIP/PPP (Q)
OpenTransport failure
PB SCSI-Disk
PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
PowerBook 230/Duo + Netscape Conflict?
Printer/fax/scanner/copier for Mac
Problem: Now Utilities and PB 5300
Removing sections of Netscape bookmark file (Q)
Replacement for "Directory Assistance II"?
SE-20 (R)
sharing modem/ppp service?
Simple Text question (R)
Sun HD as external Mac drive - Please Help
Unprotect Source Code
WriteNow
XWindows Client for Power Mac
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:32 -0700
From: (Timothy A Herzog)[email protected]
Subject: [*] ART Music 3.5.3c
ART Music is a translator that converts Finale EPS files to Illustrator
format, so you can edit a page of music just like a graphic (add color,
other graphics, move notes, etc.). ART Music is FAT; it runs on 680x0
computers and runs native on Power Macintoshes.
This bug fix corrects a problem that causing inconsistent crashing on 68000
computers on startup. Sorry, folks, but honestly, it wasn't my fault.
Shareware: $20.00
Timothy Herzog Two Bits Worth, Inc.
[email protected] +1 (612) 227-2920
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/art-music-353c.hqx; 187K]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:03 -0700
From: (Jae Ho Chang)[email protected]
Subject: [*] FinderNote 1.2.1 - Amazing note utility!
FinderNote is a simple text editor, but unlikely others, its
documents can be read directly on Finder without any other
application. This is very useful for writing a note somewhere
on your hard disk, for example, for a note about the contents
of a folder, or a file, and so forth.
FinderNote is a freeware!
* System Requirements
System 7.1 or later.
Finder 7.1.4 or later.
Clipping Extension.
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-
Mac CD-ROM.
Thanks!
Jae Ho Chang
eMusicas softwares
[Archived as /info-mac/text/finder-note-121.hqx; 38K]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:07 -0700
From: (John Rethorst)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Johns WP Glossary Macros 1.1
These provide an easy and elegant glossary featu
3.x for the Macintosh. Up to 26 glossary entries are available. A menu the
width of your screen shows you as much of each entry as will fit. Click on
the entry or type its identifying letter to place the text in your
document.
New in this version: documents how to assign keystrokes directly to
individual glossary entries, and the glossary file can include extra
columns of notes or anything else in addition to the glossary entries
themselves.
Free. May be included on UMich and Sumex CDs.
John Rethorst
[Archived as /info-mac/text/wp/johns-glossary-macros-11.hqx; 26K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:11 -0700
From: (Jon Pugh)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Jon's Commands 1.7
Here is Jon's Commands 1.7, my collection of AppleScript scripting
additions. This version adds the "snag object" command which is only
really of use to application developers. It's purpose is to write an
object specifier to disk so that it can be used in a program in lieu of
writing a bunch of obnoxious code to do the same thing. I've included
sample code showing how to use this saved object from C.
You can get a complete listing of Jon's Commands and all my software from
my web site:
http://www.infoworkshop.com/~jonpugh/
Jon's Commands is free for non-commercial use and only $25 for commercial use.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/jons-commands-17-osax.hqx; 150K]
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:27 -0700
From: (Richard E. Fiegle)[email protected]
Subject: [*] MacUpdate 3.5 - File Synchronization
MacUpdate is a file synchronization utility. It can do forward and
reverse file synchronizations, and can do synchronized deletion of
files. Works with floppies, hard disks, removables, any AppleTalk
network (including EtherNet, Netware, Windows NT, and ARA), and
pretty much any "disk" that can be mounted on the Mac's desktop.
Works fine with system 6 or 7, from Mac Plus to the latest PCI Macs.
Includes tools to automate the synchronization process, including
scheduling timers, and many options for what and how to synchronize.
Also works great as a simple backup or mirroring program. Speeds up
backups by only backing up the files that have been changed. Lets you
work with your Mac while a backup/synchronization/update is going on.
Good documentation is included, and the program is very easy to use.
Shareware: $5
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
Thanks,
Richard E. Fiegle
FIGLEAF Development,
Author, MacUpdate
Prefered E-Mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mac-update-35.hqx; 120K]
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:30 -0700
From: (Jan Dockx)[email protected]
Subject: [*] News4U
News4U is an AppleScript. It gets URL's pages in batch using Netscape
Navigator=81. The URLs to get should be listed in a TEXT-file.
Prerequisites:
You need 2 things, other than AppleScript, to be able to use this script:
Netscape Navigator=81 (tested with version 2.02) and the "Text Files" osax
(because Read/Write Commands in AS 1.1 are broken badly under the PowerPC,
according to Peter N. Lewis).
News4U is freeware and I don't even care for the copyright. But I'd be
pleased if you would mention me if you use parts of the script.
Jan Dockx ([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/ntscp/news-4-u-as.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:22:29 -0700
From: (Nick Zeitlin)[email protected]
Subject: [*] QBStatistics 0.5b
This is QB Statistics 0.5b, a small program that calculates
stats for an NFL Quarterback. It should be placed in /game/.
It can be included on any info-mac CD-ROM.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/qb-statistics-05b.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 23:23:29 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#335/08-Jul-96
TidBITS#335/08-Jul-96
After a week off, we return with the second part of Geoff's detailed look
at the PowerPC chip and other bits of Macintosh architecture. Adam weighs
in with advice for people who have to give Internet presentations, and
Tonya looks at a couple of Web browser plug-ins that help browsers both
talk and listen, along with a new mailing list called Disabled-Talk.
MailBITS about the release of the commercial System 7.5.3 and BBEdit 4.0.1
round out the issue.
Topics:
MailBITS/08-Jul-96
Plain Talk on the Internet
Presenting the Internet
Fishing For Chips: Part 2
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-335.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:25:15 -0700
From: (Alain Stalder)[email protected]
Subject: [*] trueColor for HyperCard
trueColor provides an intuitive way to work in color in HyperCard.
You can give buttons and fields colors and color pictures.
Buttons can have color icons.
You can cut, copy and paste color pictures and icons
to and from the clipboard.
You can move fields and buttons in color.
A help stack with extensive documentation is included.
trueColor requires HyperCard 2.2 or later*,
a 68020 processor or higher (including any PowerPC processor).
Some features require 32-Bit QuickDraw (included in Sys 7).
* trueColor runs very slowly on PowerMacs in Hypercard 2.2
if you have Connectix SpeedDoubler installed.
trueColor is free for non-commercial use.
Alain Stalder
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/true-color-hc.hqx; 94K]
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 09:26:26 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul Brians)
Subject: (Q) Microsoft/Kingston RAM offer good?
Probably many of you have received the "Microsoft Empowerment Pack"
containing a free CD-ROM with Internet Explorer 2.0, Internet Assistant 2.0
for Word, Internet Assistant for Excel, and the Microsoft Word 6.0.1a.
Included is an offer for 8 megs of RAM for $69 from Kingston. I need more
RAM, and this seems like a good deal; my local college store says the
price of RAM is plunging and it should be quite reasonable by September,
but I have trouble imagining it going this low. Anybody got an expert
opinion on this deal?
By the way, I hate to admit it, but MacUser was right in saying Explorer is
more efficient to use than Netscape, almost solely because it loads text
before graphics. I assume the Netscape folks have taken note and will fix
this in their next release.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 14:27:57 -0700
From: [email protected] (kee nethery)
Subject: [A] exe
>How do I open a file, on a Mac, with the "exe" subscript?
>TIA
>Bill Ingraham
Softwindows (Insignia Solutions) to emulate a PC in software or one of the
DOS cards (Apple, Orange Micro and I belien Reply?) to actually run the PC
software in an intel chip.
Kee Nethery
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 13:32:58 +0200
From: [email protected] (Oliver Hammrich)
Subject: [A] PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
"Linda L. Andrews" wrote:
>What do I do. I saved a file and can't open it up without PK-Zip.
>
>Can you do that on a Macintosh?
Hello Linda,
try "ZipIt" at info-mac/cmp/zip-it-135.hqx
Happy Mac-zipping,
Oliver.
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:47:52 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ed Costello)
Subject: [A] PLEASE HELP! How do I tile an image for my web page background?
If what you want to do is have your image repeat throughout the background
of your page, then all you need to do is .... nothing. Use the HTML tag:
If the image is smaller than the size of the window (or frame), the web
browser is smart enough to repeat the image enough times to fill it.
I hope I understood the question correctly...
_ Ed
[email protected]
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 11:09:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Mark E. Ingram"
Subject: [A] problems with GV Teleport Platinum on 8500/120
In a recent Info-Mac Digest, I wrote of having lately tested "various
models of Hayes, Supra, Boca, USRobotics, Motorola and, most recently,
tried out two variations of Dayna PC-card modems for the PowerBook. (My
only GV experience was with a bundled 14.4kbps model, and that didn't work
out too well.)"
I went on to say "that for maximum compatibility and best speeds over any
given telephone line, the USR Courier 'V.Everything' [seems to be] way
ahead of the pack (but also [is] the most expensive)."
Over the past few days, however, we have confirmed one glaring exception
to this statement: In the wee hours of the morning of July 4, a line of
Level 5 thunderstorms passed overhead, accompanied by severe
cloud-to-ground lightning. At the time, all modems were physically
disconnected from the telephone and electric lines, as hard experience has
taught that in our rural area, even good surge suppression is not always
effective against lightning.
However, there did occur some kind of damage to the local Telco's
equipment or lines, as evidenced by a constant, loud, obnoxious hum on our
telephone line. We immediately reported it to the Telco, and although
they acknowledged the problem and said that it would be fixed "right
away," after four days it still is present.
So to get to the point: With this background hum on the telephone line,
neither the USR V.Everything nor the two models of Dayna will even
*connect* at all to two different modem banks. If these were the only
(three!) modems we had, we would be "dead in the water" for no telling how
many more days.
On the other hand, the Supra V.32bis *will* connect, though usually after
negotiating down to 9600 bps, and with a fair number of RE, TE and RT
alerts on its LED display. This is a bit slow for Netscape, but quite
usable for e-mail. Bully for the Supra.
One other point: One respondent to my original posting suggested that the
observed differences between modem models may have been due to not having
installed one or more of OT 1.1, System 7.5.3 Rev. 2, FreePPP, current
modem driver files and the like. All of these *are* in fact present, and
the reported differences in modem performance have been confirmed over
some six different models of Mac - all of them running current software.
I strongly believe that there are important hardware/firmware/software
differences between modem models themselves - and none of them are very
close to perfect. While exhaustive fiddling with various modem
initialization strings *might* make a difference with our "hum" problem,
what is the point in doing so when the Supra just cranks up and *works*?
Regards,
Mark E. Ingram
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: 05 Jul 1996 09:12:44 +0000
From: Mephistophilis
Subject: [Q] What does this MacsBug message mean?
This question is the latest episode of a 9-month quest to
identify the origin of continuing crashes and freezes on
my Q700. At this point almost everything except the
casing has been changed and I am beginning
to wonder if my PC-owning colleagues might not be
right after all 8-(. Help/comment/advice will be very
much appreciated.
If I invoke MacsBug deliberately using the Reset(?) button
with no apps. running the log reproducibly contains the
following message:
>The heap at 000021D0 is bad
>Free bytes in heap does not match zone header
My diagnostic utilities (Disk First Aid, Apple Personal
Diagnostics, Norton Disk Doctor, TechTool Pro) find
nothing amiss. Is MacsBug telling me something of
significance?
TIA -
Fergus Lalor
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 14:06:55 +0200
From: [email protected] (Andreas Heidtting)
Subject: Action needed or Apple becomes a looser!
Action needed or Apple becomes a looser!
This action item is from:
(Ron Gut)
The Boston Globe on line is holding a survey to
pick 1996's winners and losers. Apple is one of the entries in this
survey, And is currently in the Loser bracket by a 65 to 27 margin. Can
we change this?
The survey is at
Do you believe in Macintosh? Go here:
and sign up for active duty.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:45:13 -0700
From: "Sandor W. Sklar"
Subject: AppleShare error at Startup
Hello all.
I've been experience a little problem the past few weeks; one that I cannot
attribute to any changes in my system configuration. What happens is that
when I turn on my computer the extensions begin to load, and then when the
icon for the AppleShare extention appears (I use Conflict Catcher to see
all startup items), an error dialog box pops up that says something to the
effect of, "An AppleShare error has occured. Please activate AppleTalk in
the Chooser." I click OK, and startup continues as usual, with no problems
in operation.
Now I know I've been able to startup with AppleTalk off in the past without
getting that message. And I don't have any problems turning AppleTalk on
and off after the startup process is complete. I'm using a PB Duo 230
8/500, with System 7.5.3r2, and I have experienced this problem when I've
had the Assistant Toolbox extension loaded and disabled.
Any clues?
--Sandy Sklar
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:13:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jacob Palme
Subject: Auto-saving in Hypercard
Probably because I use too many extensions, my Macintosh crasher
rather often. To avoid losing information, I therefore save documents
I am editing frequenly using the Save command provided by most
software.
However, Hypercard has no save command. Hypercard is supposed to
do this automatically, but I have found that sometimes when the
computer crashes data I have entered into Hypercard has not
been saved.
Question: Is there a way to ensure that Hypercard does save
new data, even if the computer crashes? If so, how?
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 09:26:40 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul Brians)
Subject: BBEdit 4.0.1 update
I downloaded the BBEdit 4.0.1 update and am really impressed with its
abilities, but I was momentarily confused because some of the old
option-command shortcuts have been changed to control-command ones. If your
old keystrokes don't work, take a look at the menus.
I don't understand why Bare Bones sends out a free t-shirt (X-Large only)
to all purchasers of 4.0 but doesn't ship a printed manual. The online one
is ok but mine printed out without page numbers! (I put them in with pencil
so I can use the table of contents and index.)
Anyway, it's a wonderful tool. I worked with the free version for two years
before springing for 4.0, and it's worth every penny. The ability to save
html pages directly to my Web site is a treat.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 17:48:40 -0500
From: Paul Sheldon
Subject: cyberdog and error 11 (Q)
I have a mac 8500, system 7.5.3 and the most advanced cyberdog, but get
error 11 crash when I do internet search.
Long ago, at the very beginnings of cyberdog, it worked with 7.5.1 and
helped me dig up stuff on the internet.
As instructed, I've turned virtual memory on and couldn't find an adobe
type reunion which was a known incompatibility, but found ATM and nixed it
with extensions manager for a reboot to no avail.
Any ideas out there?
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:28:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: Help: I need an overseas Apple Service Provider!
Greetings. I'm in the USA, and I need a very small part that I can't
buy here: a latch for my Duo 210.
Here's the story: I bought my 210 with a broken latch. Upon inquiry,
I discovered that Apple *refused* to sell the part to my service
provider (and of course they wouldn't sell it to me directly). They
insist that I mail the Powerbook to them and pay them $160 to fix it,
which is patently absurd (it's a $5 part and a 15-minute job, honest;
I've been in there to get to broken one out).
Apple *will* however sell the part to their overseas service providers, on
the grounds that absolutely nobody in their right minds would send their
Duo to the US from overseas for this. So if you are an overseas Apple
Service Provider, or have a friendly one, and can order the part and send
it to me, I'll pay what it costs or trade something in kind, and be very,
very grateful.
Incidentally, nobody at Apple has had so much as a vaguely reasonable
excuse for this strange policy, though they have made up some pretty
interesting ones- "it has to be done in a cleanroom" is my favorite, or
how about "some service providers might not want to do it". I suspect
that it's because Apple makes a lot of money on this trivial (and probably
common) repair. I'd love to find out who makes these for Apple and buy a
large number at 50 cents each to give away.
I must say that as a confirmed Macintosh evangelist, freak and fan,
the attitude I've found at Apple recently has been very disheartening;
a bunch of folks at Customer Relations who had no idea what they were
doing went out of their way to defend an absurd policy with absurd
reasoning. They sounded scared.
Thanks,
Ethan Benatan
[email protected] http://www.pitt.edu/~ethan
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 11:12:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tim Biddle (317) 306-3258"
Subject: HP DeskWriter 560c on network..?
I know this one has probably been asked before, but I don't seem to recall
ever seeing it before.
I have an HP DeskWriter 560c that I want to share on our ethernet LAN. I have
tried the following:
1. Laserwriter Bridge. No luck. Only works with Apple printers, to the
best of my knowledge.
2. Dayna EtherPrint LocalTalk to Ethernet adapter. No luck. DeskWriter
drivers didn't recognize the printer on Ethernet.
Does anyone know of a way that I can share this printer? The main reason I
want to do this is that I want to print from my 8100, but both serial ports
are filled with a Geoport adapter and a ColorQuickCam. I suppose I could get
one of those serial port switching devices, but I would rather have a more
elegant solution. Something like getting an HP JetDirect print server is more
along my line.
Thanks.
Tim Biddle
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:35 -0400
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: HTML question
Dear Digest readers,
An HTML question.
I would like to do the following in HTML:
word definition................
subword definition.......
subword defintion.....
word word defintion.
Where there would appear to be 5 spaces between the word and defintion.
The browser is Netscape 2.0, and only Netscape 2.0.
Anybody know how to do this, and could you send me back a sample I could
test?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:12:24 +0900
From: [email protected] (Antony D'Emanuele)
Subject: Netscape stutters (freezes periodicaly) when using SLIP/PPP (Q)
I am having problems using Netscape on a PB5300c when connecting to the
Internet using PPP or SLIP. The browser stops at regular intervals (the
Netscape logo stops) and my whole system freezes until the Netscape logo
starts moving again. As you can imagine downloading is very slow and
frustrating as I can't do anything in the background. Anyone experienced a
similar problem?? (I am not using virtual memory, Netscape has 7MB of
memory allocated to it and I have 32MB RAM)
Tony D'Emanuele, [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:16:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Patrick V. Ford"
Subject: OpenTransport failure
I am having a very annoying problem using PPP on my PowerComputing PPC
135MHz with System 7.5.3. Up until yesterday, I was able to access the
Internet, get my e-mail, etc with Netscape and Eudora Pro without any
apparent problems. Now, PPP will make the modem connection but Netscape
says it can't find a socket and Eudora comes back with an error message
with some numbers(I left the paper with them written on it at home) or a
message about a "pesky" TCP error. I have deleted and re-installed the
OS, deleted old Pref files, turned on and off Extensions using Conflict
Catcher to no avail. If I boot off another hard disk with a nearly identical
configuration, the PPP connection works. I even tried copying the "good"
system folder to the problem side and rebooting, but it did not help.
I would appreciate help that makes me non-clueless. Please send reponces to
[email protected]
Patrick Ford, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:37:27 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ken Laskey)
Subject: PB SCSI-Disk
There has been a lot of discussion about connecting a PowerBook to a
desktop Mac and having the PB disk mount and accessible to its desktop bro.
What no one has explained is exactly how to do this. I have a SCSI cable
to attach my 5300 to a SCSI chain. Is this sufficient for connecting to my
IIsi or do you need a docking adaptor. Once the hardware is hooked up,
what is the boot procedure, i.e. what gets turned on in what order?
Hooking a PB up in this manner can be critical given that you can't boot
System 7.5 from a single floppy. My PowerBook disk crashed last week and
luckily I had a spare system on a Bernoulli disk. Booting holding down
DOCS skipped the damaged disk and MacTools took care of the rest. However,
a direct connect to my IIsi would have been more convenient.
Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:15 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: PK-Zip for the Macintosh??? How Do I unzip it?
"Linda L. Andrews" asked
> What do I do. I saved a file and can't open it up without PK-Zip.
> Can you do that on a Macintosh?
Get "ZipIt", version 1.3.5, from http://www.awa.com/softlock/zipit/zipit.html
Best wishes, Christian.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:00:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: [email protected] (mark evans)
Subject: PowerBook 230/Duo + Netscape Conflict?
(thanks to all who helped me get my client's Powerbook connected to the
Internet... of course, now there is another problem! arrrgh)
This user had problems connecting a Geoport Mercury modem and Power Book
230/Duo to connect to our network. We tweaked the intit strings and solved
that problem. She can send and receive mail (and of course, log on), but
she is only able to download the default homepage (ISP's homepage), and if
she requests another site, it gives the "unable to make a network
connection" error. She has run into this problem on two other ISP's in
town. Can anyone shed any light on this particular characteristic of
Powerbooks, Netscape, and the 'net? She has tried this using a variety of
early Netscape versions -- all shareware.
help!
TIA.... mark evans
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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:14:46 +0800
From: [email protected] (Ngiam Shih Tung)
Subject: Printer/fax/scanner/copier for Mac
There are a number of all-in-one beasts of the type mentioned above for
Wintels, but so far I have yet to see any for the Mac. Am I wrong? Or are
there any adapters like PowerPrint that will allow me to use PC-baed
machines on a
Mac ? PowerPrint documentation says that it can drive these machines as
printers, but it can't access the other functions.
Shih Tung
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 18:19:58 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ian S Robinson)
Subject: Problem: Now Utilities and PB 5300
I'm experiencing some problems with Now Utilities 5.0.1 on a Powerbook
5300cs 16/500 running system software 7.5.2 and Ram Doubler 1.6.2 (I've
also experienced the same problems with system software 7.5.3 plus revision
2). The problem is this: every now and then hierarchical menus fail to
appear: instead a greyed-out 'Empty' appears where the menus ought to
begin. Now Super Boomerang occasionally suffers from a similar problem: the
list of recent files and applications is often truncated, garbled or just
plain missing. I've switched off the Apple Menu Options control panel, but
this hasn't helped.
Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? Will upgrading to version 6
of NU solve help?
Thanks in advance,
Ian Robinson
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 19:42:47 -0400
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: Removing sections of Netscape bookmark file (Q)
Dear Digest readers,
Anybody make a program that strips the ADD_DATE*LAST_VISIT
sections out of the HTML text of Netscape bookmark files?
I have a list of over 1000 URLs with this format that I'd like to strip
out just that section of the URL.
If somebody knows how to do this with BBEdit Lite 3.5.1,
or some other program available on the Net, please e-mail me. The
solution should work on System 7.5.3 rev 2 PowerMac 7200.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: 07 Jul 1996 00:18:04 GMT
From: [email protected] (John Haywood)
Subject: Replacement for "Directory Assistance II"?
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:48:49 -0700, David Emery asked:
>>
Long ago (in a galaxy far away
I got the "Directory Assistance II"extension with Norton Utilities. This rapidly became my 'favorite'
extension, with the substantial flexibility it provides in opening files.
(It replaces the standard "file open" dialog with an expanded dialong that
provides direct access to all disk volumes, a list of most recently visited
directories, and "my favorite directories". It also allows me to create a
directory or delete a file from within the "Open File" dialog.)
Now I understand that "Directory Assistance II" is A Bad Thing, that
it is not supported, and that it has been linked to lots of crashes,
particularly with System 7.5.3.
Can anyone recommend a good replacement?
>>
Same happened to me with SuperBoomerang when it got rolled into Now Utilities
(and just *where* is my upgrade notice, I ask??).
I'm now using Default Folder 2.6.1, which although not quite as feature rich
as Boomer, exacts way less toll on my system resources and provides the
following features:
(From the ReadMe)
* Set up a default folder for any or all applications.
* Switch among recently used folders from a pop-up menu.
* See available disk space and switch between disks from a pop-up menu.
* Click on a Finder window to show it in an Open or Save dialog.
* Create folders, get information (including changing name, type, and
creator), and move items to the Trash from within file dialogs.
* "Rebound" back to the last file you used.
* Make "Replace" the default option instead of "Cancel" when saving
a file with the same name as an existing file.
* Speed up the display of Open and Save dialogs by turning off custom
color icons in the file list.
Default Folder will operate on any Macintosh running System 7 or higher, and
is accelerated for PowerPC.
Cost:US$25
hth
John in Kobe
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:20 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: SE-20 (R)
Phil Coombs asked:
> I have acquired a Mac SE-20 with 4 meg RAM. I am trying to set it up for
> my father in Florida to use for e-mail.
>
> I am proceeding with setting it up for BBS connection to a service that
> has email access to the internet and could relay messages. However, I
> don't want to miss an opportunity if he could use the Mac for a direct
> ISP connection. Even if this could technically happen, I am sure it
> would be slow, but it might be worth it.
A Mac SE can run system 7, so there is no problem here. And the 4 mB
RAM should be sufficient to use Eudora and the related stuff (PPP, etc).
On my PPC-Mac, Eudora needs less than 500 KB RAM. You probably won't be
happy when you try to "surf on the web", since Netscape won't run on the
SE (it requires at least an 68020 processor; think the SE has an 68000
only).
Best wishes, Christian.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:10:39 EDT
From: Jeremy C Daniel
Subject: sharing modem/ppp service?
I've got 4 macs at home connected over
appleshare and one high speed modem which we've been moving
between the computers, what I'm wondering is
if there is a way to have them share the
modem with one machine acting as a server,
or for the machine recieving PPP signals
to retransmit it to the other machines?
I would be willing to use commercial software
if noone knows of any appropriate shareware
Thanks,
Jer
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:19:00 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: Simple Text question (R)
[email protected] (Eric Peloquin?) asked:
> I want to make Simple Text accept all text files whatever the size. Is
> there a way to do this with ResEdit?
No way. SimpleText relies on something called TexEdit, which is built
into the Mac system or ROM (probably in ROM), and this can not open larger
text files. Hacking around in SimpleText would not help.
Best wishes, Christian
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:28:50 +0000
From: [email protected] (Jens Eickhoff)
Subject: Sun HD as external Mac drive - Please Help
Hello Netters,
i have connected an old drive of our Sun workstations to my Mac to have a
drive to install MkLinux on. I have the following problems in formatting
the file:
With the MkLinux CD there comes the formatter program Apple HD/SC Setup,
version 7.3.5 which complains
"unable to locate a suitable drive connected to the SCSI port"
It simply does not seem to see the connected HD. I then switched over to my old
Apple HD SC Setup 3.0.1 (A/UX) which is already a rather old version. With
this SW I was able to initialize and partition the drive. Then I started
the Linux installer, it copied all the stuff from CD to the HD but then
when starting the Mac in Linux mode it hangs and nothing happens of the
disk. It seems as if the Mac too does not see the disk in Linux boot mode.
Any ideas? Thanks for support
Jens
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 02:40:44 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Unprotect Source Code
I need this very very badly, can anyone give me a source Code... to
Unprotect...
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Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 21:27:48 -0400
From: Daniele Conversi
Subject: WriteNow
Dear Sir,
I would appreciate it if you could send me an e-mail address for WriteNow
customer support .
Thanks
DC
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:08:09 -0400
From: [email protected] (The Opera Ghost)
Subject: XWindows Client for Power Mac
>Is there an equivalent to MacX for the PowerMac? Either an upgraded
>version of MacX or a program from another company would do. If not,
>what other solution to dvi previewing have people come up with.
>Thanks.
>
>Anthony Kroch
You might be interested in eXodus from White Pine Software.
http://www.wpine.com/macexods.html
I'm not dis/recommending it, just letting you know about it.
Chris
[email protected]
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