Info-Mac Digest V14 #166
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 16 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 166
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#336/15-Jul-96
(R) Midi interface wanted
[A] 7200 level 2 installation
[A] Help Needed (key press gives thunk, no response)
[A] Midi interface wanted
[A] Netscape
[A] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP ?
[A] Sharing modem/ppp service?
[A] Speeding up 7200/90
[Q] Max memory in an SE
[Q] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP (continued)
Advice needed with Brother HL8 PS
AppleScript - can it tell me if a folder is empty?
David-William-Yon
HD SCSI-ID & Termination
Info-Mac Digest V14 #165
IPA font
Listserver
Macs and Organisers
MacVersions!
NEC Monitor question
Netscape
Netscape != Big Brother
OpenTransport failure
RAM-upgrade (R)
Ram doubler (2 msgs)
Routing through Multiple Gateways
StyleWriter Pro connecting to TI Laptop
Subject: Odd MS-Word conflict
System Auto-Death
Why is Microsoft Word so S-L-O-W on Mac?
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:41:42 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#336/15-Jul-96
TidBITS#336/15-Jul-96
Despite a heat wave in Seattle, this week's issue contains news of updates
to the popular RAM Doubler and Retrospect, along with details about the
contents of the Microsoft Empowerment Pack, an article about Claris
OfficeMail, and a look at how to ask search engines to ignore Usenet
postings and Web pages. Also, we look briefly at some new and updated
programs of interest to Mac Webmasters: MacHTTP, WebSTAR, NetForms,
Phantom, LogDoor, and LogRoller.
Topics:
MailBITS/15-Jul-96
Web Updates and Utilities
Power to the Masses from Microsoft
Claris OfficeMail Debuts
Keeping Robots Out of Your Corner of the Net
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-336.etx; 29K]
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:44:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (Morethanone Kalar)
Subject: (R) Midi interface wanted
> My wife wants to add a modest MIDI interface to her IIsi to use in
> transcribing some Renaissance scores into modern notation. Where should we
> look for such a thing? We live in a small isolated college town, so we'll
> have to do mail order--though we will be in New York and Seattle at the end
> of the month if anyone knows of a good place to shop in either of those
> cities.
I have a IIsi and my midi needs were also modest. So about 3 years ago I
bought a product called EZ Vision by Opcode. (Sequencer and interface
package.) So far as I know it's no longer available, but consider the
upgrade version called MusicShop, with which you'll need to purchase a
separate interface, for example the Opcode Midi Translator II. Both can
be got from MacWarehouse for around $145. Gets your feet wet without
soaking you too badly.
EZ Vision didn't do score printing, Musicshop does. It doesn't have all
the bells and cymbals of the higher-end programs, but may be adequate.
Should the need arise to do fancy score printing, you might consider the
program Finale. Pretty pricey, and the version I saw a few years ago was
complex and awkward, but I think I heard that it's got better. It will
print scores of nearly any complexity. There are also the fancy
sequencers, such as Opcode's Vision. Such products are typically in the
$300-500 range.
-- Tony
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:28:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: [A] 7200 level 2 installation
Hi-
I wish I spoke Japanese 1% as well as you speak English. Instructions
for opening and closing the 7200 are below.
1) use static precautions.
2) when you open the 7200 there is a vertical slot right in the middle of
the board, marked "CACHE". It's keyed so you can only insert the
module one way. Make sure you push firmly and evenly until it is
solidly seated. Done.
ps don't be put off by the fact that you may have an empty ROM slot-
in later models, the ROMs are soldered on the motherboard, and the
slot was left empty.
Ethan
ps if you have not opened the 7200, here's the quick scoop: I think
it is the easist Mac to service since the IIsi. The whole procedure
should take 5 minutes.
-work on a large flat surface- you'll need twice the width of the machine.
-power down, wait 5 minutes.
-if humidity is low, use a wrist-grounding strap. Actually it is
always a good idea.
-disconnect power cables
-stand in front of machine
-push up the buttons on either side under the front lip, and give a
firm tug forwards- the lid will slide forwards.
-lift off the lid.
-middle right side is a pop-out "leg"- pop it out, it latches there.
-the pci cage on the left pops out of front and rear catches and hinges
out.
-the power-supply module is held in by two latches, one front and one
rear. Slide them both in towards the center of the Mac.
-lift the power-supply module on its hinge (grab the tab near the
middle and lift); flip it out until it stands on it's leg.
-the motherboard is now exposed. If you are using a grounding strap,
reconnect the power cable so that you are grounded.
(but *don't* turn on power).
-install the cache. Admire the machine. Give thanks that you don't have
an 8100.
-remove the power cable again.
-BEING CAREFUL to position the "kickstand" under the power supply so
that it doesn't get broken, gently flip power supply unit back
and seat it carefully; latch both latches making sure they engage
correctly. (i never had to do this- mine was broken when I got it).
-flip the leg back in.
-flip the pci cage back in and engage the front and rear catches by
pushing gently above them.
-set the lid over the machine straight down, but about 5cm forward of
where it will be when locked in.
-push the lid stright back firmly; the last push may need to come from
the front, right above the release buttons. You should hear them
click into place.
You are done. Congratulations.
Ethan Benatan [email protected] http://www.pitt.edu/~ethan
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 01:51:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Barry Isralewitz
Subject: [A] Help Needed (key press gives thunk, no response)
Regarding:
>Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 12:29:34 -0700 (MST)
>From: William Schmidt
>Subject: Help Needed
>
>The other day, when starting up my Mac, I was greeted by the keyboard
>making "thunk" sounds when I struck a key. The sound was electronically
William,
It sounds like you have "Slow Keys" in the Control Panel "Easy
Access" turned on. This helps disabled typists by only responding to key
presses held for a few seconds. But you never touched that control
panel? Slow Keys can also be turned on and off by holding down the return
key for about ten seconds, "until you hear a soft beep, and, about five
seconds later, an ascending or descending tone" (Macintosh Guide). But
you never held down your return key that long? Could have been a stuck
return key, might be getting old from too many rounds of Maelstrom.
I call this as an interface problem. WIth Slow Keys so easy to
turn on by those who have never heard of it, there should at least be a
dialogue box at activation and subsequent Mac startup to tell the confused
user what's happening, otherwise user assumes keyboard has angered the
computer in some weird way and worries about that blop of Seven-Up she
spilled into it 4 months back.
Barry Isralewitz Tel: (217) 328-6480
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: [A] Midi interface wanted
I've been really happy with MacBeat; and if I recall correctly, their
800 number is their name! Very knowledgable, good prices.
Cheers,
Ethan
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:01:47 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: [A] Netscape
Bill:
On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, [email protected] (Bill Ingraham) wrote:
> #1, at least once a week as I am shutting down and Mr.Norton is scanning
>the hard drive with his arms folded, and he tells me that I have problems,
>namely errors in the bit map and in the master directory block. Why should
>this be happening so often?
Netscape is notorious for causing this kind of problem. Netscape spends a
lot of time reading and writing files to your hard drive (the "cache") in
order to speed access to Web sites. If you experience a crash during one of
these episodes you could incur the problems you state.
Here's a trick I read somewhere (I wish I knew the reference so I could
thank the individual!) Use your Memory Control Panel to create a RAM disk
of about 1 MB. Restart, etc. Start Netscape. In the Options under Network
Preferences click the button marked "Browse" and set your disk cache to the
RAM disk. Now when (not "if," but "when") you crash, only that "disposable"
disk will be messed up.
>#2, I was trying to get into a university library and was told that I must
>set the terminal type to VT100. This apparently applied to Netscape. How,
>where do I do that?
What Netscape really wants you to do is to designate a Telnet client
(Options => General Preferences => Applications). Telnet is a command-line
window emulator for accessing UNIX, VAX and other mainframe-type computer
systems. My favorite is NCSA Telnet 2.7b4 (freeware).
Good luck,
Clint
Clint MacDonald |
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 21:48:17 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: [A] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP ?
>Can anybody tell if -and how- you can configure MacTCP to use more than one
>gateway to the Internet ? UNIX boxes and even Windoze can do this, but I
>cannot find a way to do this with MacTCP.
I assume you're using some form of MacSLIP or MacPPP as the SLIP or PPP
communications layer for MacTCP. Get FreePPP 2.5 instead. It can be
configured for multiple internet service providers, and will work with
either MacTCP or Open Transport.
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:29:04 -0700
From: [email protected]@you.got.net (Doug Brouwer, Santa Cruz)
Subject: [A] 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?
PortShare Pro by Stalker Software does just that, plus it lets you share =
other serial devices such as label printers. I've been using it for well =
over a year on a 4 Mac network and it has worked very well. There is a =
trial version in the InfoMac archives or you can get it at www.stalker.com.=
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Date: 16 Jul 1996 22:33:37 GMT
From: [email protected] (John Haywood)
Subject: [A] Speeding up 7200/90
On Fri, 12 Jul 1996 02:41:22 GMT david yon wrote:
***
> Hi ! Can anyone help me with some advice on how to really
> speed things up
> on my 7200. My thinking now is a 256K level 2, extra 16
> Megs ram.Also
> anyone have any idea if speed doubler has any appreciable
> effect?
***
well, the 256k RAM cache will certainly give you a speed boost, the 16meg
extra RAM could speed things up under any of the following circumstances:
it enables you to turn virtual memory (Apple's or RAMDoubler) off
you can assign a larger portion of your RAM to be a cache in the Memory
Control Panel
you could create a RAM disk with some of your RAM, and run either the System
or a designated App of of that
as for SpeedDoubler-I'd only use the Speed Emulator part myself-the other
bits have gouged my system before-and I'd rather desist!
hth
john in Kobe
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:56:49 -0700
From: Maurice Mike McNeil
Subject: [Q] Max memory in an SE
Anybody know the MAX memory configuration for an SE? We want to take it to
8MBytes of RAM.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:40:06 +0200
From: Hans de Wolf
Subject: [Q] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP (continued)
In InfoMac #165 is asked:
>Can anybody tell if -and how- you can configure MacTCP to use more than one
>gateway to the Internet ? UNIX boxes and even Windoze can do this, but I
>cannot find a way to do this with MacTCP.
I got many suggestions - thanks to all who replied.
But the answers did not solve my problem, probably because I did not state
the problem clearly.
I have an ethernet connection (so the problem is not related to MacPPP),
but due to implementation of a new internet access architecture I must (at
least temporarily) connect to the Internet through two separate gateways
(firewalls). Some kinds of traffic (telnet) must pass through one gateway,
other kinds like (http) must pass through another.
I want to do this without changing settings. As far as I know Open
Transport allows you to change settings without rebooting, but it does not
let you specify more than one (default) gateway at the same time.
Regards,
Hans de Wolf - Fokker Space B.V. - Business Unit Payloads & Science
PO Box 32070, 2303 DB Leiden, Netherlands - [email protected]
Tel. +31 (0)71 5245878 Fax +31 (0)71 5245835
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:34:07 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: Advice needed with Brother HL8 PS
I am trying to connect a Brother HL8 PS printer to a Mac. I have
made a custom cable adapter to use with the standard (Mini-DIN)
connectors which are nowadays used in Apple's and 3rd party
hardware. I noticed that the DB9-connector of the Brother printer
has the same pinout as Apple's first LaserWriter had.
However it seems impossible to see the Brother printer on the
network; I tried nearly every setting which is possible in the
setup of the printer.
At "19200 bps, 8bits, no parity, 1 stop bit", the printer says
"40 line error" which, according to the manual, means that the
settings are incorrect. But at every other speed I tried,
nothing at all happens...
Any word of wisdom from someone who successfully uses a HL8 PS
with a Mac is appreciated.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 12:12:25 +0200
From: Phil Hudson
Subject: AppleScript - can it tell me if a folder is empty?
>Is there
>a way to have an AppleScript run at shutdown which checks the status of the
>folder's contents and alerts me if it not empty?
set foo to (alias "My HD:My New Text Files:")
set bar to (list folder foo)
if (bar is not {}) then display dialog "Your new-files folder is not
empty."
-- Phil Hudson -- [email protected] --
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:38:42 -0400
From: [email protected] (Christian Parent)
Subject: David-William-Yon
With the 7200, a 256K level 2 cache seems to be a real great value for the
buck. ExtraRAM 16 and more is always obviously an excellent solution. By
experience, a 7200/75 with a 256k level 2 cache runs faster than a 7200/90.
Ram Doubler and Speed Doubler seems to be a solution that you would think
twice before spending the 100$ box on. Specially Ram Doubler that seems to
have major problems with the 7.5.3 system, crash and all.
Christian Parent
5060 Christophe-Colomb
Montr=E9al
H2J 3H2
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 10:01:59 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom"
Subject: HD SCSI-ID & Termination
On Mon, 15 Jul, Graham Mitchell wrote:
>How do I set the SCSI Id and remove the termination from an internal
>hard disk? I have been given a disk (Quantum Fireball 1280S) that I
>want to add in addition to my existing hard disk (PowerMac 7500).
That's a pretty common question, and I don't keep all that stuff in my
head, so I have a cheat sheet that others might find useful.
Al Bloom
Notes on SCSI-ID and termination, internal HD's from LaCie.
Termination may be by SIP resistors or by a termination jumper.
If the drive has SIP (Single Inline Packaged) termination resistors,
look to find the three lined up near the SCSI connector at the end
of the drive controller board:
Power SCSI Connector
|_______| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[--------] [--------] [--------] SIP Resistors
There may be two SIP resistors instead of three. I've seen both kinds.
Pull them out to turn off termination. Save them. Just in case you want
to put the HD at the end of a SCSI chain some day.
With a termination jumper look at the same jumper block as the SCSI
jumpers. It is the jumper labelled TE. If it is connected, termination
in ON. To turn termination off, un-jump it.
To change the SCSI-ID, look at the A0-A2 jumpers on the block. The below
schematics are for a Quantum Fireball (termination jumper TE and another
called FK about which I know notheing.). With SIP terminators, you'll
probably see a shorter block with only A0-A2 jumpers.
A2 A1 A0 TE FK A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________ __________________
| + + + + + | | + + + + + |
SCSI 0 | | | | SCSI 1 | | | |
Term'd | + + + + + | No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________| |__________________|
A2 A1 A0 TE FK A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________ __________________
| + + + + + | | + + + + + |
SCSI 2 | | | | SCSI 3 | | | | |
No Term | + + + + + | No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________| |__________________|
A2 A1 A0 TE FK A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________ __________________
| + + + + + | | + + + + + |
SCSI 4 | | | | SCSI 5 | | | | |
No Term | + + + + + | No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________| |__________________|
A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________
| + + + + + |
SCSI 6 | | | | |
No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________|
If you have a nodding acquaintance with binary arithmetic, the jumper
connections make sense (A0 = 2**0, A1 = 2**1, A2 = 2**2).
SCSI addresses run from 0 to 7, with 0 reserved for the internal HD and
7 reserved for the Mac's CPU. If you have an internal CD-ROM drive, it
is at SCSI-ID 3. You basically have 1,2,4,5, and 6 to assign.
AMB 07/96
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:46:06 -0700
From: [email protected] (Wendy Weiner)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #165
Hi--
Maybe this is the place. I have a Mac LC which I upgraded to 10 megs with
500 on my HD. It runs on system 7, however, which I wonder if that's the
reason why not only is it terribly slow (a 14.4 modem doesn't help) but
sometimes it won't do simple things, like open files that are binhexed. I
have Stuffit, but have trouble with hqx files. I was even having an
attachments problem with a Word file on Eudore, but then it finally decided
to transfer, through no part on me! I'm mystified with the apparent
randomness of it all. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendy
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:43:51 -0600
From: Kreme
Subject: IPA font
At 22:49 -0600 14/07/96, Andrea A. Cortinois wrote:
>Hi friends!
>
>Does anybody know were I could find the special font used by the
>International Phonetic Association (IPA) to symbolize English
>pronunciation? (They are different from the American Heritage Font).
If this is the font used in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary I too
would love to have it, or some TT/PS2 version of something similar.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:02:58 -0500
From: Gordon McDorman
Subject: Listserver
[email protected] (Ariel Alampay) wrote:
> I'm starting a new mailing list for the local architects here in the
> Philippines.
> In the meantime, I'm using my e-mail address to receive all the
> messages and then manually redirecting them to all the list's
> subscribers using the Bcc: field. (BTW, I'm using Eudora Lite.)
> Although I'm still managing, I expect to have a really difficult
> time once the volume of subscribers and messages increase.
I assume you are using a mac. An easy and cheap method of managing a
mailing list using a mac and a regular e-mail account is Macjordomo:
http://leuca.med.cornell.edu/Macjordomo
Full instructions are provided with the package, although I had troubles
connecting to the website: it may have changed. You should be able to locate
the software through regular channels. [sorry, the internet in Europe is
deathly slow today: I can't connect to anything right now]
Gordon.
Gordon McDorman [email protected]
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Date: 16 Jul 1996 17:52:54 +1000
From: [email protected] (Isaac Balbin)
Subject: Macs and Organisers
My problem:
I use an organiser (Sharp ZQ 3200).
I like it because it actually fits into a trouser pocket as well as
a suit jacket. Unfortunately, this system does not interface to a Mac.
It does interface to a PC. I don't use PC's.
The only other organiser that I know of that interfaces with a Mac is the
ZQ6600 (and models up from this). Unfortunately, these organisers are
larger than the ZQ3200 and will not fit in a trouser pocket.
For this reason, I also don't use a Newton---too big for a trouser pocket.
So, does anyone know of an organiser that isn't huge that does interface
to a Mac, or another solution to this problem.
PS. I use the organiser *so that* I will be able to back it up. Otherwise,
what's the point.
Dr Isaac Balbin, Dept. of Comp. Sci., RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
[email protected] +61 3 9660 2803
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~isaac
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:15:19 +0000
From: "Nathan F. Gilkes"
Subject: MacVersions!
MacVersions is a site dedicated to providing version information for Macintosh
software programmers and users. The goal is to have software programmers list
their wares FREE of CHARGE and allow other users to have one place to look when
they want to know whether or not software has been updated since their last
version.
I hope that many of the programmers who submit to Info-Mac would list their
software with us.
http://www.mrmachead.com/macversions/iexplorer/add.html
Thanks,
Nathan F. Gilkes
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:23:22 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: NEC Monitor question
I'm thinking of buying a large color monitor and the NEC XE 21 is one of my
final 3. Does anyone know what the maximum screen resolution I could get
is, for 8 bit color, with 1MB VRAM in a Quadra 800? (I'm hoping for
1152x870).
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 18:52:45 -0500
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: Netscape
> ...at least once a week as I am shutting down and Mr.Norton is scanning
>the hard drive with his arms folded, and he tells me that I have problems,
>namely errors in the bit map and in the master directory block. Why should
>this be happening so often?
Any time Netscape causes a bomb (often, right?) there's a chance, perhaps
a likelihood, of b-tree corruption on the drive that hold Netscape's
cache folder. Let this go too long, and you'll have to reformat the drive.
Personally, I set Netscape's prefs to place its cache on a partition
other than my startup volume. Another drive entirely would probably be
even better, but I use what I have.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected]) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page at:
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:23:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: Scott Taschler
Subject: Netscape != Big Brother
On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Alexandre S. Simionovici wrote:
> Bonjour fellow web-sters,
> Any news on Netscape's crypted cookie or whatever they use to keep
> track of our net habits ?
> Is it really tracking all our sessions ? Where is this stored and
> how can we get rid of it ? Does it also get a list of our apps and
> files on the machine ? Can this information be decoded and how ?
> But seriously folks, enough of this "netscape paranoia" or we will all
> cease using it -please direct me to some site or document addressing these
> questions.
Netscape's "MagicCookie" file is used by servers to store information
(called a "cookie") about you for your next session, rather like the Mac's
preferences folder. An example of a legitimate use of this would be to
record items you have selected for purchase, in a sort of virtual shopping
basket. It does NOT track all sessions. It doesn NOT track any private
information on your machine...it only stores info that a web server stores
there for you.
Unfortunately, this file can be subverted relatively easily. Unscrupulous
servers out there can use this information to target specific ads to you,
based on what cookies are in the file. Not a big deal to most folks,
really.
I believe this file is in System Folder:Preferences:Netscape
Prefs:MagicCookies (not at a mac right now...). You should be able to
open the file using ResEdit (or BBEdit, depending on whether the info is
stored as text or resources...) to see what's in there now. Feel free to
drag it to the trash if there is anything in there you don't trust.
Another solution would be to lock the file in the Finder, to prevent any
further cookies being written to the file. I hear that newer versions of
Netscape (I still use 1.1) have a preference to ask before storing a
cookie.
Note that this file is not very widely used. I am a pretty avid
net-surfer, and I only had a single cookie in my file--put there by
Netscape.
You can find out more about magic cookies at:
Scott
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:49:45 -0600
From: Kreme
Subject: OpenTransport failure
At 6:58 -0600 14/07/96, Jeff Gschwend wrote:
>3) Install FreePPP 1.0.5 (if you don't have it, get it - IMHO the most
>reliable version.)
YMMV, but I've found FreePPP 2.5 to be lightyears better than 1.0.5. It
works better, keeps connections better, and seems to run much more stably.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:25:53 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: RAM-upgrade (R)
[email protected] (Lars Christian Jensen) wrote:
> I would like to upgrade my 840 AV from 8 to 16 Mb RAM. Which precautions
> should I take doing it by my self. Ive heard that static electricity could
> destroy the processor - how do I prevent it. Not excatly being a hardcore
> handyman - should I (in your opinion) take the risc (and save some money)
> or should I let a Mac-pro do it for me ( even if it might cost as much as
> the RAM).
Go to your electronics store and get a "grounding strip". This is something
which goes around your wrist at one end and connects to a grounded device
(in most cases, the case of your computer's power supply). Your computer must
be plugged into a grounded wall outlet at that time, but switched off. This
eliminates 99.5 % of all static electricity.
You can't break much if you add RAM yourself, but you must know how to
open your Mac and where the RAM is. For some models, this is more compli-
cated than for others; I don't know about the 840AV in particular. Be careful
not to break something in the RAM slots, and make sure that the RAM sits
in them firmly.
If you never watched someone replacing RAM, you could ask in your user
group or other Mac experts (not a dealer - he wants to sell you the
installation) to advise/teach you.
Best wishes, Christian.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:48:48 -0400
From: [email protected] (Christian Parent)
Subject: Ram doubler
To Jay R. Larsen
Thanks for the help,
Actually, I already tried those solutions. The last version of Photoshop is
the version used. I have to say, I think VM is for now the best solution
besides having more RAM. THe opening of the software is slower but after at
least it runs without crashing. But you are right, having RAM with
PHotoshop is always in any case the one and only solution that anyone who
is serious with that huge software should consider. VM on the last version
of the apple system is running good though and also on the new upcoming
version 8.0 should be running even better so we should stay alert and see
what's coming.
Christian Parent
Christian Parent
5060 Christophe-Colomb
Montr=E9al
H2J 3H2
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:53:34 -0600
From: Kreme
Subject: Ram doubler
At 16:42 -0600 13/07/96, Christian Parent wrote:
>Ram Doubler is starting to be annoying.
[ -- SNIP -- TEXT DELETED ]
>Photoshop is definitively having problems
[ -- SNIP -- TEXT DELETED ]
I don't think RamDoubler has ever worked well with PhotoShop, since
PhotoShop uses it's own virtual memory scheme. Ram Doubler works fine for
what it's intented for, but having at least 16-24 Megs of RAM is a good
idea anyway.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:03:24 -0500
From: Dwight Lemke
Subject: Routing through Multiple Gateways
Hans,
I use John Norstad's wonderful MacTCP switcher. I have setting files for
any ISP I access which I keep in a "Connections" folder in my Apple Menu.
Check it out at: ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/jlnstuff/mactcp-switcher/
-Dwight
At 2:06 PM -0700 on 7/15/96, Hans de Wolf wrote:
> Can anybody tell if -and how- you can configure MacTCP to use more than one
> gateway to the Internet ? UNIX boxes and even Windoze can do this, but I
> cannot find a way to do this with MacTCP.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 15:22:59 CDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: StyleWriter Pro connecting to TI Laptop
Hi Everyone:
I would appreciate any help you could give me here. I have a colleague who
wants to connect his StyleWriter Pro color printer to a Texas Instruments
laptop. Is this possible? If so, what will he need to do this? Thank
you for any information you can provide.
Brenda F. Johnson
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:21:29 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ken Laskey)
Subject: Subject: Odd MS-Word conflict
In response to
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:28:59 -0500
From: Dwight Lemke
I just finished installing 7.5.3 with the update on my 5300cs and all the
MS apps were crashing. Following a suggestion I saw on the tips web pages
at www.norstar.on.ca I disabled Apple Menu Options and now everything seems
to run fine. Microsoft strikes again!
Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:04:48 -0700
From: [email protected] (Randall K Petersen)
Subject: System Auto-Death
Well, here's a weird problem.
I have a Power Computing PowerWave 604/132. Configuration: 2 internal HDs,
internal CDROM, internal Zip, internal DAT, 1 external HD; 48 MB RAM, ATI
video card with 4 MB VRAM; Applevision 1710AV monitor, extended keyboard,
Kensington Thinking Mouse, Gravis Firebird joystick on the ADB bus;
LaserWriter, PaperPort, QuickCam, SupraFaxModem serial devices; System
7.5.3, many system extensions. Generally stable, excluding the occasional
crash with beta software. Always on, generally sleeping (Sleeper, not
Energy Saver) awaiting faxes when I'm not home.
The other day, I was merrily working away, not doing anything particularly
dangerous, and the whole thing just shut off. Not Shut Down, just instant
shutoff, dead, kaput, lights out; computer, monitor, everything. When I
restarted, the monitor had a hard time activating, with much internal
cycling, requiring an additional manual shut off or two before the monitor
would kick in. Also, the DAT drive wasn't recognized on the SCSI bus, also
self-corrected after a couple of Shut Down and Startup cycles (Restart was
NOT effective).
Then, a few hours later, it did the same thing again! Similar problems
getting everything going again, including an initial complete lockout of
the ADB bus (no keyboard or mouse function).
After getting things going again, both times I did the usual diagnostics:
Norton, TechTool Pro, etc. Nada. I didn't zap the PRAM or reinstall the
System. I did rebuild the desktop after the second "event", and the problem
has not recurred again since, although this may certainly be coincidental.
I believe this has happened once before. A few months ago, I returned home
>From work to find my system completely off, when I had definitely left it
running when I left in the AM. Similar but less difficult problem on
startup: the Zip drive was not recognized by the SCSI bus. Similar
solution: shut down, wait a bit, startup again.
I consider myself a relatively savvy Mac user, but this one is bizarre. I
*suspect* it may have something to do with the Applevision 1710AV monitor,
a beautiful but rather tempermental piece of equipment. And no, I
supposedly do not have one of the original machines with the destructive
cycling problem when put into sleep mode; my serial number is a later one.
Still, I have experienced that kind of problem activating the monitor on
occasion which suggests that Apple didn't *quite* entirely fix the problem.
If anyone can say for sure that the events I've described are attributable
to the monitor, I may ditch it, despite the cost, for something a bit less
precarious.
If not the monitor, then what? Power supply problem? Too much stuff on
the ADB? On the internal SCSI bus? (Termination *is* correct.) Saturday
was a *very* hot day in Seattle, and my home office was a bit tropical.
Any comments are welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Randall K Petersen, MD _(:)->
[email protected] [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:14:18 +0300
From: [email protected] (Tero Loimuneva)
Subject: Why is Microsoft Word so S-L-O-W on Mac?
>From: Erkko Autio
>
>Namely, my Word 6.0.1 for Power Macintosh is incredibly slow, as compared
>with (MUCH cheaper) PCs equipped with 'slower' processors. The same applies
>for PowerPoint and Excel.
When Word 6 appeared there was a long discussion about the problem on
various media. I got the impression then from some people familiar with
Microsoft developers that they use the exact same code to run Word on
Windows and Macintosh. The code is interpreted at run time by platform
specific interpreter. Due to differences in environments the same code is
very hard (if not possible) to be made work optimally on both machines and
Microsoft chose Windows as their primary environment (hard to think why tho
The lack of performance on Macs might also come from poorly made
interpreter.
Word 6 looks very much alike on Windows and Macs. On closer look the
interface is not very 'Mac-like' if I may say so.If you have ever tried to
create macros with KeyQuencer (or similar macro utility) to Word version
anything on Mac you might have noticed that they don't work too well with
Word. This implies that MS has written their own code to dispatch mouse and
key events from buttons etc.
The approach MS has taken enables them to introduce new applications for
multiple platforms practically simultaneously without putting multiple
effort into it. Nice idea but currently poorly implemented, don't you
think? The philosophy is that growing computer performance will catch up
the needs of new software. The price is paid by the people (us) who have to
buy new computers to run the new software while Microsoft is saving money
in development costs. And we are more and more often facing yet another
version of Word XYZ which is more of a bigger than better. Getting the bugs
out and making software more efficient is the kind of fine tuning MS
doesn't seem to be interested in. Maybe because it doesn't make the
feature-list longer.
>improvement is made, my next machine will be a PC.
If your primary need is to make your Word perform better maybe the next
machine should be a pc. But I can see another, better solution - if you are
not happy with it ditch Word and use something that works better. There are
plenty of alternatives.
>[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 16 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 166
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#336/15-Jul-96
(R) Midi interface wanted
[A] 7200 level 2 installation
[A] Help Needed (key press gives thunk, no response)
[A] Midi interface wanted
[A] Netscape
[A] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP ?
[A] Sharing modem/ppp service?
[A] Speeding up 7200/90
[Q] Max memory in an SE
[Q] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP (continued)
Advice needed with Brother HL8 PS
AppleScript - can it tell me if a folder is empty?
David-William-Yon
HD SCSI-ID & Termination
Info-Mac Digest V14 #165
IPA font
Listserver
Macs and Organisers
MacVersions!
NEC Monitor question
Netscape
Netscape != Big Brother
OpenTransport failure
RAM-upgrade (R)
Ram doubler (2 msgs)
Routing through Multiple Gateways
StyleWriter Pro connecting to TI Laptop
Subject: Odd MS-Word conflict
System Auto-Death
Why is Microsoft Word so S-L-O-W on Mac?
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:41:42 -0700
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Subject: [*] TidBITS#336/15-Jul-96
TidBITS#336/15-Jul-96
Despite a heat wave in Seattle, this week's issue contains news of updates
to the popular RAM Doubler and Retrospect, along with details about the
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:44:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (Morethanone Kalar)
Subject: (R) Midi interface wanted
> My wife wants to add a modest MIDI interface to her IIsi to use in
> transcribing some Renaissance scores into modern notation. Where should we
> look for such a thing? We live in a small isolated college town, so we'll
> have to do mail order--though we will be in New York and Seattle at the end
> of the month if anyone knows of a good place to shop in either of those
> cities.
I have a IIsi and my midi needs were also modest. So about 3 years ago I
bought a product called EZ Vision by Opcode. (Sequencer and interface
package.) So far as I know it's no longer available, but consider the
upgrade version called MusicShop, with which you'll need to purchase a
separate interface, for example the Opcode Midi Translator II. Both can
be got from MacWarehouse for around $145. Gets your feet wet without
soaking you too badly.
EZ Vision didn't do score printing, Musicshop does. It doesn't have all
the bells and cymbals of the higher-end programs, but may be adequate.
Should the need arise to do fancy score printing, you might consider the
program Finale. Pretty pricey, and the version I saw a few years ago was
complex and awkward, but I think I heard that it's got better. It will
print scores of nearly any complexity. There are also the fancy
sequencers, such as Opcode's Vision. Such products are typically in the
$300-500 range.
-- Tony
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:28:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: [A] 7200 level 2 installation
Hi-
I wish I spoke Japanese 1% as well as you speak English. Instructions
for opening and closing the 7200 are below.
1) use static precautions.
2) when you open the 7200 there is a vertical slot right in the middle of
the board, marked "CACHE". It's keyed so you can only insert the
module one way. Make sure you push firmly and evenly until it is
solidly seated. Done.
ps don't be put off by the fact that you may have an empty ROM slot-
in later models, the ROMs are soldered on the motherboard, and the
slot was left empty.
Ethan
ps if you have not opened the 7200, here's the quick scoop: I think
it is the easist Mac to service since the IIsi. The whole procedure
should take 5 minutes.
-work on a large flat surface- you'll need twice the width of the machine.
-power down, wait 5 minutes.
-if humidity is low, use a wrist-grounding strap. Actually it is
always a good idea.
-disconnect power cables
-stand in front of machine
-push up the buttons on either side under the front lip, and give a
firm tug forwards- the lid will slide forwards.
-lift off the lid.
-middle right side is a pop-out "leg"- pop it out, it latches there.
-the pci cage on the left pops out of front and rear catches and hinges
out.
-the power-supply module is held in by two latches, one front and one
rear. Slide them both in towards the center of the Mac.
-lift the power-supply module on its hinge (grab the tab near the
middle and lift); flip it out until it stands on it's leg.
-the motherboard is now exposed. If you are using a grounding strap,
reconnect the power cable so that you are grounded.
(but *don't* turn on power).
-install the cache. Admire the machine. Give thanks that you don't have
an 8100.
-remove the power cable again.
-BEING CAREFUL to position the "kickstand" under the power supply so
that it doesn't get broken, gently flip power supply unit back
and seat it carefully; latch both latches making sure they engage
correctly. (i never had to do this- mine was broken when I got it).
-flip the leg back in.
-flip the pci cage back in and engage the front and rear catches by
pushing gently above them.
-set the lid over the machine straight down, but about 5cm forward of
where it will be when locked in.
-push the lid stright back firmly; the last push may need to come from
the front, right above the release buttons. You should hear them
click into place.
You are done. Congratulations.
Ethan Benatan [email protected] http://www.pitt.edu/~ethan
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 01:51:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Barry Isralewitz
Subject: [A] Help Needed (key press gives thunk, no response)
Regarding:
>Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 12:29:34 -0700 (MST)
>From: William Schmidt
>Subject: Help Needed
>
>The other day, when starting up my Mac, I was greeted by the keyboard
>making "thunk" sounds when I struck a key. The sound was electronically
William,
It sounds like you have "Slow Keys" in the Control Panel "Easy
Access" turned on. This helps disabled typists by only responding to key
presses held for a few seconds. But you never touched that control
panel? Slow Keys can also be turned on and off by holding down the return
key for about ten seconds, "until you hear a soft beep, and, about five
seconds later, an ascending or descending tone" (Macintosh Guide). But
you never held down your return key that long? Could have been a stuck
return key, might be getting old from too many rounds of Maelstrom.
I call this as an interface problem. WIth Slow Keys so easy to
turn on by those who have never heard of it, there should at least be a
dialogue box at activation and subsequent Mac startup to tell the confused
user what's happening, otherwise user assumes keyboard has angered the
computer in some weird way and worries about that blop of Seven-Up she
spilled into it 4 months back.
Barry Isralewitz Tel: (217) 328-6480
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: [A] Midi interface wanted
I've been really happy with MacBeat; and if I recall correctly, their
800 number is their name! Very knowledgable, good prices.
Cheers,
Ethan
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:01:47 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: [A] Netscape
Bill:
On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, [email protected] (Bill Ingraham) wrote:
> #1, at least once a week as I am shutting down and Mr.Norton is scanning
>the hard drive with his arms folded, and he tells me that I have problems,
>namely errors in the bit map and in the master directory block. Why should
>this be happening so often?
Netscape is notorious for causing this kind of problem. Netscape spends a
lot of time reading and writing files to your hard drive (the "cache") in
order to speed access to Web sites. If you experience a crash during one of
these episodes you could incur the problems you state.
Here's a trick I read somewhere (I wish I knew the reference so I could
thank the individual!) Use your Memory Control Panel to create a RAM disk
of about 1 MB. Restart, etc. Start Netscape. In the Options under Network
Preferences click the button marked "Browse" and set your disk cache to the
RAM disk. Now when (not "if," but "when") you crash, only that "disposable"
disk will be messed up.
>#2, I was trying to get into a university library and was told that I must
>set the terminal type to VT100. This apparently applied to Netscape. How,
>where do I do that?
What Netscape really wants you to do is to designate a Telnet client
(Options => General Preferences => Applications). Telnet is a command-line
window emulator for accessing UNIX, VAX and other mainframe-type computer
systems. My favorite is NCSA Telnet 2.7b4 (freeware).
Good luck,
Clint
Clint MacDonald |
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 21:48:17 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: [A] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP ?
>Can anybody tell if -and how- you can configure MacTCP to use more than one
>gateway to the Internet ? UNIX boxes and even Windoze can do this, but I
>cannot find a way to do this with MacTCP.
I assume you're using some form of MacSLIP or MacPPP as the SLIP or PPP
communications layer for MacTCP. Get FreePPP 2.5 instead. It can be
configured for multiple internet service providers, and will work with
either MacTCP or Open Transport.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:29:04 -0700
From: [email protected]@you.got.net (Doug Brouwer, Santa Cruz)
Subject: [A] 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?
PortShare Pro by Stalker Software does just that, plus it lets you share =
other serial devices such as label printers. I've been using it for well =
over a year on a 4 Mac network and it has worked very well. There is a =
trial version in the InfoMac archives or you can get it at www.stalker.com.=
------------------------------
Date: 16 Jul 1996 22:33:37 GMT
From: [email protected] (John Haywood)
Subject: [A] Speeding up 7200/90
On Fri, 12 Jul 1996 02:41:22 GMT david yon wrote:
***
> Hi ! Can anyone help me with some advice on how to really
> speed things up
> on my 7200. My thinking now is a 256K level 2, extra 16
> Megs ram.Also
> anyone have any idea if speed doubler has any appreciable
> effect?
***
well, the 256k RAM cache will certainly give you a speed boost, the 16meg
extra RAM could speed things up under any of the following circumstances:
it enables you to turn virtual memory (Apple's or RAMDoubler) off
you can assign a larger portion of your RAM to be a cache in the Memory
Control Panel
you could create a RAM disk with some of your RAM, and run either the System
or a designated App of of that
as for SpeedDoubler-I'd only use the Speed Emulator part myself-the other
bits have gouged my system before-and I'd rather desist!
hth
john in Kobe
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:56:49 -0700
From: Maurice Mike McNeil
Subject: [Q] Max memory in an SE
Anybody know the MAX memory configuration for an SE? We want to take it to
8MBytes of RAM.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:40:06 +0200
From: Hans de Wolf
Subject: [Q] Routing through Multiple Gateways possible in MacTCP (continued)
In InfoMac #165 is asked:
>Can anybody tell if -and how- you can configure MacTCP to use more than one
>gateway to the Internet ? UNIX boxes and even Windoze can do this, but I
>cannot find a way to do this with MacTCP.
I got many suggestions - thanks to all who replied.
But the answers did not solve my problem, probably because I did not state
the problem clearly.
I have an ethernet connection (so the problem is not related to MacPPP),
but due to implementation of a new internet access architecture I must (at
least temporarily) connect to the Internet through two separate gateways
(firewalls). Some kinds of traffic (telnet) must pass through one gateway,
other kinds like (http) must pass through another.
I want to do this without changing settings. As far as I know Open
Transport allows you to change settings without rebooting, but it does not
let you specify more than one (default) gateway at the same time.
Regards,
Hans de Wolf - Fokker Space B.V. - Business Unit Payloads & Science
PO Box 32070, 2303 DB Leiden, Netherlands - [email protected]
Tel. +31 (0)71 5245878 Fax +31 (0)71 5245835
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:34:07 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: Advice needed with Brother HL8 PS
I am trying to connect a Brother HL8 PS printer to a Mac. I have
made a custom cable adapter to use with the standard (Mini-DIN)
connectors which are nowadays used in Apple's and 3rd party
hardware. I noticed that the DB9-connector of the Brother printer
has the same pinout as Apple's first LaserWriter had.
However it seems impossible to see the Brother printer on the
network; I tried nearly every setting which is possible in the
setup of the printer.
At "19200 bps, 8bits, no parity, 1 stop bit", the printer says
"40 line error" which, according to the manual, means that the
settings are incorrect. But at every other speed I tried,
nothing at all happens...
Any word of wisdom from someone who successfully uses a HL8 PS
with a Mac is appreciated.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 12:12:25 +0200
From: Phil Hudson
Subject: AppleScript - can it tell me if a folder is empty?
>Is there
>a way to have an AppleScript run at shutdown which checks the status of the
>folder's contents and alerts me if it not empty?
set foo to (alias "My HD:My New Text Files:")
set bar to (list folder foo)
if (bar is not {}) then display dialog "Your new-files folder is not
empty."
-- Phil Hudson -- [email protected] --
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:38:42 -0400
From: [email protected] (Christian Parent)
Subject: David-William-Yon
With the 7200, a 256K level 2 cache seems to be a real great value for the
buck. ExtraRAM 16 and more is always obviously an excellent solution. By
experience, a 7200/75 with a 256k level 2 cache runs faster than a 7200/90.
Ram Doubler and Speed Doubler seems to be a solution that you would think
twice before spending the 100$ box on. Specially Ram Doubler that seems to
have major problems with the 7.5.3 system, crash and all.
Christian Parent
5060 Christophe-Colomb
Montr=E9al
H2J 3H2
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 10:01:59 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom"
Subject: HD SCSI-ID & Termination
On Mon, 15 Jul, Graham Mitchell wrote:
>How do I set the SCSI Id and remove the termination from an internal
>hard disk? I have been given a disk (Quantum Fireball 1280S) that I
>want to add in addition to my existing hard disk (PowerMac 7500).
That's a pretty common question, and I don't keep all that stuff in my
head, so I have a cheat sheet that others might find useful.
Al Bloom
Notes on SCSI-ID and termination, internal HD's from LaCie.
Termination may be by SIP resistors or by a termination jumper.
If the drive has SIP (Single Inline Packaged) termination resistors,
look to find the three lined up near the SCSI connector at the end
of the drive controller board:
Power SCSI Connector
|_______| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[--------] [--------] [--------] SIP Resistors
There may be two SIP resistors instead of three. I've seen both kinds.
Pull them out to turn off termination. Save them. Just in case you want
to put the HD at the end of a SCSI chain some day.
With a termination jumper look at the same jumper block as the SCSI
jumpers. It is the jumper labelled TE. If it is connected, termination
in ON. To turn termination off, un-jump it.
To change the SCSI-ID, look at the A0-A2 jumpers on the block. The below
schematics are for a Quantum Fireball (termination jumper TE and another
called FK about which I know notheing.). With SIP terminators, you'll
probably see a shorter block with only A0-A2 jumpers.
A2 A1 A0 TE FK A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________ __________________
| + + + + + | | + + + + + |
SCSI 0 | | | | SCSI 1 | | | |
Term'd | + + + + + | No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________| |__________________|
A2 A1 A0 TE FK A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________ __________________
| + + + + + | | + + + + + |
SCSI 2 | | | | SCSI 3 | | | | |
No Term | + + + + + | No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________| |__________________|
A2 A1 A0 TE FK A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________ __________________
| + + + + + | | + + + + + |
SCSI 4 | | | | SCSI 5 | | | | |
No Term | + + + + + | No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________| |__________________|
A2 A1 A0 TE FK
__________________
| + + + + + |
SCSI 6 | | | | |
No Term | + + + + + |
|__________________|
If you have a nodding acquaintance with binary arithmetic, the jumper
connections make sense (A0 = 2**0, A1 = 2**1, A2 = 2**2).
SCSI addresses run from 0 to 7, with 0 reserved for the internal HD and
7 reserved for the Mac's CPU. If you have an internal CD-ROM drive, it
is at SCSI-ID 3. You basically have 1,2,4,5, and 6 to assign.
AMB 07/96
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:46:06 -0700
From: [email protected] (Wendy Weiner)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #165
Hi--
Maybe this is the place. I have a Mac LC which I upgraded to 10 megs with
500 on my HD. It runs on system 7, however, which I wonder if that's the
reason why not only is it terribly slow (a 14.4 modem doesn't help) but
sometimes it won't do simple things, like open files that are binhexed. I
have Stuffit, but have trouble with hqx files. I was even having an
attachments problem with a Word file on Eudore, but then it finally decided
to transfer, through no part on me! I'm mystified with the apparent
randomness of it all. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendy
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:43:51 -0600
From: Kreme
Subject: IPA font
At 22:49 -0600 14/07/96, Andrea A. Cortinois wrote:
>Hi friends!
>
>Does anybody know were I could find the special font used by the
>International Phonetic Association (IPA) to symbolize English
>pronunciation? (They are different from the American Heritage Font).
If this is the font used in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary I too
would love to have it, or some TT/PS2 version of something similar.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:02:58 -0500
From: Gordon McDorman
Subject: Listserver
[email protected] (Ariel Alampay) wrote:
> I'm starting a new mailing list for the local architects here in the
> Philippines.
> In the meantime, I'm using my e-mail address to receive all the
> messages and then manually redirecting them to all the list's
> subscribers using the Bcc: field. (BTW, I'm using Eudora Lite.)
> Although I'm still managing, I expect to have a really difficult
> time once the volume of subscribers and messages increase.
I assume you are using a mac. An easy and cheap method of managing a
mailing list using a mac and a regular e-mail account is Macjordomo:
http://leuca.med.cornell.edu/Macjordomo
Full instructions are provided with the package, although I had troubles
connecting to the website: it may have changed. You should be able to locate
the software through regular channels. [sorry, the internet in Europe is
deathly slow today: I can't connect to anything right now]
Gordon.
Gordon McDorman [email protected]
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Date: 16 Jul 1996 17:52:54 +1000
From: [email protected] (Isaac Balbin)
Subject: Macs and Organisers
My problem:
I use an organiser (Sharp ZQ 3200).
I like it because it actually fits into a trouser pocket as well as
a suit jacket. Unfortunately, this system does not interface to a Mac.
It does interface to a PC. I don't use PC's.
The only other organiser that I know of that interfaces with a Mac is the
ZQ6600 (and models up from this). Unfortunately, these organisers are
larger than the ZQ3200 and will not fit in a trouser pocket.
For this reason, I also don't use a Newton---too big for a trouser pocket.
So, does anyone know of an organiser that isn't huge that does interface
to a Mac, or another solution to this problem.
PS. I use the organiser *so that* I will be able to back it up. Otherwise,
what's the point.
Dr Isaac Balbin, Dept. of Comp. Sci., RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
[email protected] +61 3 9660 2803
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~isaac
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:15:19 +0000
From: "Nathan F. Gilkes"
Subject: MacVersions!
MacVersions is a site dedicated to providing version information for Macintosh
software programmers and users. The goal is to have software programmers list
their wares FREE of CHARGE and allow other users to have one place to look when
they want to know whether or not software has been updated since their last
version.
I hope that many of the programmers who submit to Info-Mac would list their
software with us.
http://www.mrmachead.com/macversions/iexplorer/add.html
Thanks,
Nathan F. Gilkes
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:23:22 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: NEC Monitor question
I'm thinking of buying a large color monitor and the NEC XE 21 is one of my
final 3. Does anyone know what the maximum screen resolution I could get
is, for 8 bit color, with 1MB VRAM in a Quadra 800? (I'm hoping for
1152x870).
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 18:52:45 -0500
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: Netscape
> ...at least once a week as I am shutting down and Mr.Norton is scanning
>the hard drive with his arms folded, and he tells me that I have problems,
>namely errors in the bit map and in the master directory block. Why should
>this be happening so often?
Any time Netscape causes a bomb (often, right?) there's a chance, perhaps
a likelihood, of b-tree corruption on the drive that hold Netscape's
cache folder. Let this go too long, and you'll have to reformat the drive.
Personally, I set Netscape's prefs to place its cache on a partition
other than my startup volume. Another drive entirely would probably be
even better, but I use what I have.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected]) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page at:
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:23:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: Scott Taschler
Subject: Netscape != Big Brother
On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Alexandre S. Simionovici wrote:
> Bonjour fellow web-sters,
> Any news on Netscape's crypted cookie or whatever they use to keep
> track of our net habits ?
> Is it really tracking all our sessions ? Where is this stored and
> how can we get rid of it ? Does it also get a list of our apps and
> files on the machine ? Can this information be decoded and how ?
> But seriously folks, enough of this "netscape paranoia" or we will all
> cease using it -please direct me to some site or document addressing these
> questions.
Netscape's "MagicCookie" file is used by servers to store information
(called a "cookie") about you for your next session, rather like the Mac's
preferences folder. An example of a legitimate use of this would be to
record items you have selected for purchase, in a sort of virtual shopping
basket. It does NOT track all sessions. It doesn NOT track any private
information on your machine...it only stores info that a web server stores
there for you.
Unfortunately, this file can be subverted relatively easily. Unscrupulous
servers out there can use this information to target specific ads to you,
based on what cookies are in the file. Not a big deal to most folks,
really.
I believe this file is in System Folder:Preferences:Netscape
Prefs:MagicCookies (not at a mac right now...). You should be able to
open the file using ResEdit (or BBEdit, depending on whether the info is
stored as text or resources...) to see what's in there now. Feel free to
drag it to the trash if there is anything in there you don't trust.
Another solution would be to lock the file in the Finder, to prevent any
further cookies being written to the file. I hear that newer versions of
Netscape (I still use 1.1) have a preference to ask before storing a
cookie.
Note that this file is not very widely used. I am a pretty avid
net-surfer, and I only had a single cookie in my file--put there by
Netscape.
You can find out more about magic cookies at:
Scott
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:49:45 -0600
From: Kreme
Subject: OpenTransport failure
At 6:58 -0600 14/07/96, Jeff Gschwend wrote:
>3) Install FreePPP 1.0.5 (if you don't have it, get it - IMHO the most
>reliable version.)
YMMV, but I've found FreePPP 2.5 to be lightyears better than 1.0.5. It
works better, keeps connections better, and seems to run much more stably.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:25:53 +0200
From: Christian F Buser
Subject: RAM-upgrade (R)
[email protected] (Lars Christian Jensen) wrote:
> I would like to upgrade my 840 AV from 8 to 16 Mb RAM. Which precautions
> should I take doing it by my self. Ive heard that static electricity could
> destroy the processor - how do I prevent it. Not excatly being a hardcore
> handyman - should I (in your opinion) take the risc (and save some money)
> or should I let a Mac-pro do it for me ( even if it might cost as much as
> the RAM).
Go to your electronics store and get a "grounding strip". This is something
which goes around your wrist at one end and connects to a grounded device
(in most cases, the case of your computer's power supply). Your computer must
be plugged into a grounded wall outlet at that time, but switched off. This
eliminates 99.5 % of all static electricity.
You can't break much if you add RAM yourself, but you must know how to
open your Mac and where the RAM is. For some models, this is more compli-
cated than for others; I don't know about the 840AV in particular. Be careful
not to break something in the RAM slots, and make sure that the RAM sits
in them firmly.
If you never watched someone replacing RAM, you could ask in your user
group or other Mac experts (not a dealer - he wants to sell you the
installation) to advise/teach you.
Best wishes, Christian.
Christian F. Buser -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser/cbuser.html
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:48:48 -0400
From: [email protected] (Christian Parent)
Subject: Ram doubler
To Jay R. Larsen
Thanks for the help,
Actually, I already tried those solutions. The last version of Photoshop is
the version used. I have to say, I think VM is for now the best solution
besides having more RAM. THe opening of the software is slower but after at
least it runs without crashing. But you are right, having RAM with
PHotoshop is always in any case the one and only solution that anyone who
is serious with that huge software should consider. VM on the last version
of the apple system is running good though and also on the new upcoming
version 8.0 should be running even better so we should stay alert and see
what's coming.
Christian Parent
Christian Parent
5060 Christophe-Colomb
Montr=E9al
H2J 3H2
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:53:34 -0600
From: Kreme
Subject: Ram doubler
At 16:42 -0600 13/07/96, Christian Parent wrote:
>Ram Doubler is starting to be annoying.
[ -- SNIP -- TEXT DELETED ]
>Photoshop is definitively having problems
[ -- SNIP -- TEXT DELETED ]
I don't think RamDoubler has ever worked well with PhotoShop, since
PhotoShop uses it's own virtual memory scheme. Ram Doubler works fine for
what it's intented for, but having at least 16-24 Megs of RAM is a good
idea anyway.
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:03:24 -0500
From: Dwight Lemke
Subject: Routing through Multiple Gateways
Hans,
I use John Norstad's wonderful MacTCP switcher. I have setting files for
any ISP I access which I keep in a "Connections" folder in my Apple Menu.
Check it out at: ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/jlnstuff/mactcp-switcher/
-Dwight
At 2:06 PM -0700 on 7/15/96, Hans de Wolf wrote:
> Can anybody tell if -and how- you can configure MacTCP to use more than one
> gateway to the Internet ? UNIX boxes and even Windoze can do this, but I
> cannot find a way to do this with MacTCP.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 15:22:59 CDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: StyleWriter Pro connecting to TI Laptop
Hi Everyone:
I would appreciate any help you could give me here. I have a colleague who
wants to connect his StyleWriter Pro color printer to a Texas Instruments
laptop. Is this possible? If so, what will he need to do this? Thank
you for any information you can provide.
Brenda F. Johnson
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:21:29 +0100
From: [email protected] (Ken Laskey)
Subject: Subject: Odd MS-Word conflict
In response to
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:28:59 -0500
From: Dwight Lemke
I just finished installing 7.5.3 with the update on my 5300cs and all the
MS apps were crashing. Following a suggestion I saw on the tips web pages
at www.norstar.on.ca I disabled Apple Menu Options and now everything seems
to run fine. Microsoft strikes again!
Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:04:48 -0700
From: [email protected] (Randall K Petersen)
Subject: System Auto-Death
Well, here's a weird problem.
I have a Power Computing PowerWave 604/132. Configuration: 2 internal HDs,
internal CDROM, internal Zip, internal DAT, 1 external HD; 48 MB RAM, ATI
video card with 4 MB VRAM; Applevision 1710AV monitor, extended keyboard,
Kensington Thinking Mouse, Gravis Firebird joystick on the ADB bus;
LaserWriter, PaperPort, QuickCam, SupraFaxModem serial devices; System
7.5.3, many system extensions. Generally stable, excluding the occasional
crash with beta software. Always on, generally sleeping (Sleeper, not
Energy Saver) awaiting faxes when I'm not home.
The other day, I was merrily working away, not doing anything particularly
dangerous, and the whole thing just shut off. Not Shut Down, just instant
shutoff, dead, kaput, lights out; computer, monitor, everything. When I
restarted, the monitor had a hard time activating, with much internal
cycling, requiring an additional manual shut off or two before the monitor
would kick in. Also, the DAT drive wasn't recognized on the SCSI bus, also
self-corrected after a couple of Shut Down and Startup cycles (Restart was
NOT effective).
Then, a few hours later, it did the same thing again! Similar problems
getting everything going again, including an initial complete lockout of
the ADB bus (no keyboard or mouse function).
After getting things going again, both times I did the usual diagnostics:
Norton, TechTool Pro, etc. Nada. I didn't zap the PRAM or reinstall the
System. I did rebuild the desktop after the second "event", and the problem
has not recurred again since, although this may certainly be coincidental.
I believe this has happened once before. A few months ago, I returned home
>From work to find my system completely off, when I had definitely left it
running when I left in the AM. Similar but less difficult problem on
startup: the Zip drive was not recognized by the SCSI bus. Similar
solution: shut down, wait a bit, startup again.
I consider myself a relatively savvy Mac user, but this one is bizarre. I
*suspect* it may have something to do with the Applevision 1710AV monitor,
a beautiful but rather tempermental piece of equipment. And no, I
supposedly do not have one of the original machines with the destructive
cycling problem when put into sleep mode; my serial number is a later one.
Still, I have experienced that kind of problem activating the monitor on
occasion which suggests that Apple didn't *quite* entirely fix the problem.
If anyone can say for sure that the events I've described are attributable
to the monitor, I may ditch it, despite the cost, for something a bit less
precarious.
If not the monitor, then what? Power supply problem? Too much stuff on
the ADB? On the internal SCSI bus? (Termination *is* correct.) Saturday
was a *very* hot day in Seattle, and my home office was a bit tropical.
Any comments are welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Randall K Petersen, MD _(:)->
[email protected] [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:14:18 +0300
From: [email protected] (Tero Loimuneva)
Subject: Why is Microsoft Word so S-L-O-W on Mac?
>From: Erkko Autio
>
>Namely, my Word 6.0.1 for Power Macintosh is incredibly slow, as compared
>with (MUCH cheaper) PCs equipped with 'slower' processors. The same applies
>for PowerPoint and Excel.
When Word 6 appeared there was a long discussion about the problem on
various media. I got the impression then from some people familiar with
Microsoft developers that they use the exact same code to run Word on
Windows and Macintosh. The code is interpreted at run time by platform
specific interpreter. Due to differences in environments the same code is
very hard (if not possible) to be made work optimally on both machines and
Microsoft chose Windows as their primary environment (hard to think why tho
The lack of performance on Macs might also come from poorly madeinterpreter.
Word 6 looks very much alike on Windows and Macs. On closer look the
interface is not very 'Mac-like' if I may say so.If you have ever tried to
create macros with KeyQuencer (or similar macro utility) to Word version
anything on Mac you might have noticed that they don't work too well with
Word. This implies that MS has written their own code to dispatch mouse and
key events from buttons etc.
The approach MS has taken enables them to introduce new applications for
multiple platforms practically simultaneously without putting multiple
effort into it. Nice idea but currently poorly implemented, don't you
think? The philosophy is that growing computer performance will catch up
the needs of new software. The price is paid by the people (us) who have to
buy new computers to run the new software while Microsoft is saving money
in development costs. And we are more and more often facing yet another
version of Word XYZ which is more of a bigger than better. Getting the bugs
out and making software more efficient is the kind of fine tuning MS
doesn't seem to be interested in. Maybe because it doesn't make the
feature-list longer.
>improvement is made, my next machine will be a PC.
If your primary need is to make your Word perform better maybe the next
machine should be a pc. But I can see another, better solution - if you are
not happy with it ditch Word and use something that works better. There are
plenty of alternatives.
>[email protected]
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