Info-Mac Digest V14 #171
Posted: July 23rd, 1996, 4:00 am
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 16:13:02 PDT
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 23 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 171
Today's Topics:
[*] Amy's Recipes 2.4
[*] AtariVD Editor 1.2.1
[*] BifurcationOscillator 1.0
[*] Connect4 1.1.4
[*] Eudora mailto helper v0.1d5
[*] Munchies v1.0.6
[*] TidBITS#337/22-Jul-96
(Q)-230 MO
Frank Price III's Terminal Program
multiple mailboxes
On July 27 at 10:04 AM, The Moderators wrote:
OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Real Audio and Global Chat. Asking for help
Spell-checker for Microsoft Mail for Mac
Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
TCP/IP Switch Configurations
Why is ram disk a shared volume?
The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of:
Gordon Watts, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Liam Breck, Igor Livshits,
Adam C. Engst
The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around
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Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/.
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Files for inclusion:
To submit a file greater than 800K, or to avoid submitting by (and
segmenting for) email, send email describing the file to
and upload it to:
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:19:20 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Amy's Recipes 2.4
About Amy's Recipes 2.4 =A9 Image Works Plus Software
Basic Info:
Amy's Recipes 2.4 Is a great color recipe program loaded with features.
It has registered users from all over the world. You will find hundreds
of recipes already in the cookbook and you can add your own and organize
them any way you want. In summary, Amy's Recipes is an incredible Mac
cookbook at an incredbile shareware price of only $5.
It features:
Editable Table of Contents - You asked for it and you got it!
Color - but works in black and white too.
Sound - Cool interactive sounds.
Baloon Help - Balloon Help for almost every feature
On Line Help - Complete Documentation
Printing - Great looking print outs
Import TEXT Files - Import your favorite recipes easily.
Export TEXT Files - Export in a unique format that looks nice, but is
also easily imported into other versions of Amy's Recipes.
=46ind - Find a recipe by a key word or phrase
Easy User Interface - Everything is easy to do.
Bug Info:
Version 2.4 fixes the bug that kept it from working on PowerPC Macs. If
you encounter a problem, try running the program without any extensions
loaded. There may be an extension conflict. (Restart the computer while
holding down the shift key.) Amy's recipes may still be incompatible
with NOW Utilities.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/amys-recipes-24.hqx; 972K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:19:09 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] AtariVD Editor 1.2.1
AtariVD Editor allows you to create and edit virtual disks for Atari 8-bit
computers (Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE, etc.) on the Macintosh. The virtual disks
can be used with Rainbow, Chris Lam's Atari 800/800XL/130XE emulator for the
Macintosh, or with PCXFormer.
AtariVD Editor recognizes 8-bit virtual disks in these file formats:
.ATR: Nick Kennedy's SIO ATR file format with a 16 byte header.
.XFD: No header. File contains only the disk sectors themselves.
.ATD: AtariDisk format. Has a 16 byte Macintosh header.
AtariVD Editor is capable of reading, writing, and creating virtual disks in
both Atari DOS 2.0/2.5 and MyDOS 4.5 formats. In MyDOS format, you can create
virtual disks from 720 to 65535 sectors of 128 or 256 bytes. MyDOS assumes
high capacity (over 1040 sector) disks have 256 byte sectors, however.
Supported Atari 8-bit disk formats:
810 Single density (720 128-byte sectors) - DOS 2.x / MyDOS 4.5.
1050 "Enhanced" density (1040 128-byte sectors) - DOS 2.x / MyDOS 4.5.
MyDOS 4.5 disks from 720-65535 128/256-byte sectors. (90K-16MB)
A text conversion feature with ATASCII Macintosh text conversion is also
provided.
System Requirements:
Any Macintosh using System 7.0 or later.
Changes in version 1.2.1, 6/29/96
* Changed "Write Sector" button title to "Save Sector" to match
documentation.
* Added Find Again command.
* Redesigned virtual disk header information display.
* Other minor cosmetic changes to some dialogs, etc.
* Replaced directory path window with a pop-up menu allowing upward
subdirectory navigation.
AtariVD Editor 1.2.1 is freeware. Have fun!
AtariVD Editor may be distributed on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
Richard A. Carvel
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/atari-virtual-disk-edit-122.hqx; 179K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:10 -0700
From: (Jae Ho Chang)[email protected]
Subject: [*] BifurcationOscillator 1.0
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
BifurcationOscillator is a sound generating tool that uses a
well-known chaotic function, the Bifurcation function. This
program has some transformer for making new and good sounds
>From the chaotic series of values. This program might be
useful to modern sound artists.
* System Requirements
System 7.1 or later.
Thanks!
Jae Ho Chang
eMusicas softwares
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/bifurcation-oscillator-10b2.hqx; 70K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:31 -0700
From: (Miles Michelson)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Connect4 1.1.4
This is a connect 4 game with many options, different board sizes, various
levels of difficultly, a tough computer opponent, nice graphics and a
few other surprises, try it out. I'm sure you'll like it.
Connect4 program is emailware. If you like it or have suggestions for
improvements, send me a message at [email protected].
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/connect-4-114.hqx; 168K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:19:29 -0700
From: (Christian Huldt)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Eudora mailto helper v0.1d5
Eudora mailto helper is a slight modification of Eudora GURL handler, that
i) does about the same thing as Eudora GURL handler
ii) can be registered with netscape ( and internet explorer?) for the
mailto protocol
iii) has the ability to handle multiple mail settings (e.g. for shared
macs) with
or without the scriptable Finder.
I wrote it for because I needed it, but then people started asking for it...
It does take a few steps to setup, but that's in the read me.
This version requires the scriptable Finder, but a no-scriptable
Finderversion is
included
updated docs, should be able to launch Eudora no matter what name the
application
has
Share and enjoy
improvements, questions & comments to [email protected]
may be included on cd-roms, but I would really appreciate a copy
Christian
------
Christian Huldt
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/eudora-mailto-helper-01d5.hqx; 52K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:57 -0700
From: (Michael Fan)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Munchies v1.0.6
Munchies! by Michael Fan is a fun and addictive arcade game for the
Macintosh. Guide Melvin the Munchie through 45 different levels, eat all
the food while dodging skulls, flying forks, knives, and poison-flinging
spoons. Eating a peapod gives Melvin exploding peas to defend himself.
Features include: special shots, mouse-controlled movement, MOD music
soundtrack,and lots of great food icons. Works in 256 colors or B&W and
supports all monitor sizes. System 7 required. Sound Manager 3.0 or better
recommended. $8 shareware.
Munchies Home Page:
E-mail:
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/munchies-106.hqx; 480K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:57:51 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#337/22-Jul-96
TidBITS#337/22-Jul-96
Tune in this week for important news about an upcoming change to our
mailing list, plus news of Apple's third quarter results, Power Computing's
speedy new Macs, Speed Doubler 1.3, and HyperCard 2.3.5. Additional
articles cover a variety of Internet server software announced at
Mactivity, the WYSIWYG Web authoring tool golive, and rumours about
upcoming Macs from Apple.
Topics:
MailBITS/22-Jul-96
The Big Mailing List Move!
More New Net Announcements
Go Live with Golive
Apples on the Horizon
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-337.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:14:46 +0100
From: Chris Hanson
Subject: (Q)-230 MO
I have had many problems with 128MO drives and disks. I like MO much
better than zip or syquest for reliablility. I was wondering what peoples
impressions of 230 MO was. If I could get some feedback about general
experiences (bad or good) with these are. If you do respond could you
include who you bought it form (APS or whatever). Thanx a lot in advance
for the info.
-chanson
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:14:03 -0700
From: John Eckman
Subject: Frank Price III's Terminal Program
A few weeks (a month?) ago a new terminal program was uploaded to
info-mac written by Frank Price (the third?).
I can't seem to find it. Of course, the fact that I can't remember what
it was called is part of the problem.
Please reply to me directly, as I imagine several of you know the answer,
and very few other readers care to know.
John
p.s. FWIW, Frank Price was the original author of Hermes, as well as one
of the original authors of MacIntercomm. I had dl'ed the new program, and
it contained an extensive "read me" file, in the form of a .pdf doc,
retelling the history of those programs. I mentioned this on a local bbs,
but had already deleted the file from my mac- now they want to see it,
and I can't find it!
John Eckman
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:31:02 +0800
From: [email protected] (Ariel Alampay)
Subject: multiple mailboxes
Is there a software which would allow me to check my mail from multiple
mailboxes with a single command? It can be tiresome to keep changing Eudora's
settings and entering my passwords for each mailbox.
Regards,
Ariel
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:11:54 -0700
From: John Eckman
Subject: On July 27 at 10:04 AM, The Moderators wrote:
"Elleni B. Fellows" wrote:
>Actually, there is an eaiser way to pick and choose which cookies you accept.
>In Nescape, go to: 'Options -> Network Preferences -> Protocols.' There is a
>check box: 'Show Alert Before Accepting a Cookie.' Check this and everytime a
site
>wants to add to your cookie file, you will be prompted with and 'Yes or No'
dialog box.
Of course, this depends on what version of Netscape you use. In version
2.02, for 68k machines, which I run, this preference does not exist.
John Eckman
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:15:27 -0400
From: [email protected] ([email protected])
Subject: OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keith,
In Info-Mac v14 #170 you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I need some help. I'm looking for an old Mac shareware extension called
>"The Grouch" in which Oscar the Grouch popped out of the trashcan & sang
>upon emptying the trash. Since I understand the originl programmer had
>legal problems w/ CTW, it was pulled from all public domain servers.
>I'm not very familiar w/ newsgroups or else I would look there.
>
>Can you help me find a copy by e-mail?
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>Keith : )
You can find The Grouch and other (insert adjective here) Mac tricks at El
Grande Mac Hacks Page .
Ben
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 19:19:06 +0100
From: [email protected] (adrian faigon)
Subject: Real Audio and Global Chat. Asking for help
A month after having them installed, and after trying at several url's
without success, I've decided that something is going wrong here.
After trying a connection with Real Audio Player I get the
message:"REAL AUDIO ERROR=18 SERVER DISCONNECTED. THE SERVER IS PROBABLY
TOO BUSY AT THIS TIME".
With Global Chat it is not better:"COULDN'T OPEN A CONNECTION TO
'....' THE REMOTE HOST DID NOT RESPOND. RESULT CODE=-23015".
Both programs were installed following the corresponding
instructions in Netscape 2.01, running on my 6100 Power Mac with system
7.5.
Any suggestion?
Thanks. Adrian Faigon.
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:54:00 -0400
From: "Calamai, Peter"
Subject: Spell-checker for Microsoft Mail for Mac
Is anyone aware of a shareware or commercial spell-checker that works in
conjunction with Microsoft Mail on the Mac?
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:57:45 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
Info-macers:
Here is a followup to my LONG article that appeared in
Info-Mac Digest V14 #170.
> I am experiencing a failure in Stuffit Expander which reports:
>
> Sorry, but a disk related error
> (I/O Error - Bad Media?) has occurred.
>
> Infrequently it reports "volume locked" instead of "bad media". I am
> at my wits end. I am in touch with [email protected] who is
> experiencing the same symptoms on the same Performa model. Read on if
> you think you have seen this or you think you might be able to help,
> or you are masochistic, or ...
Aladdin tech support responded very promptly with the following:
> We have started having this message since the release of 7.5.3, and
> seems to be directly related to that update. We are working with
> Apple to try and come up with an acceptable solution, but to this
> time there is no 100% workaround. I have attached some comments
> from our enginering group that have helped some users in some cases.
>
> StuffIt just happens to be one of the few applications that uses
> asynchronous I/O on the Macintosh to it's full extent, which shows
> off the "problem"you are seeing.
>
> Apparently some changes in the disk cache, drivers, etc. (we don't
> know for sure what yet) in 7.5.3 have caused the possibility of I/O
> errors when a combination of DIFFERENTLY formatted drives exists on
> an SCSI chain.
>
> Formatting ALL mounted volumes with the same driver WHICH MUST BE
> SCSI Manager 4.3 (ie. asynchronous scsi) aware, will generally
> correct the situation.
>
> If the you can't format all volumes with the same driver (like say a
> ZIP cartridge), then at least make sure that your BOOT volume is
> properly formatted with the proper disk driver.
>
> In some other cases disabling Open Transport and returning to
> "classic" connectivity has helped as well.
>
> We like to think that the "bug" isn't ours since prior to 7.5.3
> there were no reports of any of these kinds of issues. We are
> willing to admit that it is possible that previous versions of the
> OS may have "screened" issues that might have been lurking in
> Expander and Deluxe, but they sure seemed very stable.
>
> When we have the final solution to this one available, it will be
> announced via our web page (http://www.aladdinsys.com) and made
> available on our ftp site (ftp://ftp.aladdinsys.com/pub) as well as
> on our forums on AOL and Compuserve.
>
> Also, both Expander and DropStuff need to be at the same major
> version number to work in concert. In order for Expander/DropStuff
> 4.0 to work properly with the other, you will need to update them
> both to the 4.x level.
Another info-macer responded saying that other data on this problem
strongly suggested that the common thread was having an IBM Disk which
was claimed to not do asynchronous I/O correctly under some
conditions. So far, there are 4 confirmed machines suffering from
this problem, and all of them have IBM disk drives.
- 2 Performa 6115CDs with IBM DSAS-3360 S47T
- 1 6100 with IBM
- 1 7100/66 with IBM DSAS-3540
Info-mac is an incredible resource. Thank you for the almost instant
responses. I am sure much more information will be forthcoming. I
will try to act as a focal point for the information and I will
publish updates when more is known.
Peter
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:14:00 -0700
From: John Eckman
Subject: TCP/IP Switch Configurations
In info-mac digest v.14 #170, Bill Stanford
writes:
>But if your second provider is only used for mail (as is often the case),
>there's an easier way:
>
>Use Eudora as your mail program.
Or, to add a third way, even easier: use Claris Emailer as your mail
program. In Emailer there is no need to create two settings files- you
can create two "services" within Emailer and have them both scheduled to
run, regardless of which provider you are connected to.
This is, in fact, one of the situations Emailer is designed to handle-
multiple accounts on different POP servers.
John Eckman
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:55:02 -0400
From: [email protected] (Howard M. Fried)
Subject: Why is ram disk a shared volume?
Does this make sense? I'm using AppDisk 1.6.1, a ram disk utility, as a
repository for Netscape cache files. AppDisk writes its contents to the
hard drive prior to shutting down--a nice feature. Anyway, all of a
sudden, now, whenever I launch Fetch or Anarchie, the AppleShare dialog
box opens up, saying "Connected to Shared Disk AppDisk 1.6.1", waiting for
a password (or a cancel, which I promptly select). Also, when I click on
File Transfer in Internet Config the same thing happens. But, FTP from
within Netscape does not elicit this behavior.
Why has AppDisk become a shared disk? I do not even have File Sharing
activated, although I did have it on at one point to transfer some files
>From an old to a new machine. The old machine also had AppDisk up and
running on it; perhaps there's a connection here. And, how do I eliminate
this minor but annoying behavior?
TIA,
Howard M. Fried
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:31:17 -0700
From: [email protected] (Dewey Maxwell)
My wife regularly creates a listing of approximately 100 spelling words in
4 columns. Does anyone know of a program that will place all of these
columns in alphabetical order? Shareware if possible.
Thanks - Dewey
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 23 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 171
Today's Topics:
[*] Amy's Recipes 2.4
[*] AtariVD Editor 1.2.1
[*] BifurcationOscillator 1.0
[*] Connect4 1.1.4
[*] Eudora mailto helper v0.1d5
[*] Munchies v1.0.6
[*] TidBITS#337/22-Jul-96
(Q)-230 MO
Frank Price III's Terminal Program
multiple mailboxes
On July 27 at 10:04 AM, The Moderators wrote:
OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Real Audio and Global Chat. Asking for help
Spell-checker for Microsoft Mail for Mac
Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
TCP/IP Switch Configurations
Why is ram disk a shared volume?
The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of:
Gordon Watts, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Liam Breck, Igor Livshits,
Adam C. Engst
The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around
the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try:
Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/.
Administrative queries & info:
Articles for digest publication:
Files for inclusion:
To submit a file greater than 800K, or to avoid submitting by (and
segmenting for) email, send email describing the file to
and upload it to:
-- username/password macgifts/macgifts at info-mac.org
As with emailed submissions, non-text files must be binhexed.
See our new WWW site: , where you can find
all of this info and more!
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:19:20 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Amy's Recipes 2.4
About Amy's Recipes 2.4 =A9 Image Works Plus Software
Basic Info:
Amy's Recipes 2.4 Is a great color recipe program loaded with features.
It has registered users from all over the world. You will find hundreds
of recipes already in the cookbook and you can add your own and organize
them any way you want. In summary, Amy's Recipes is an incredible Mac
cookbook at an incredbile shareware price of only $5.
It features:
Editable Table of Contents - You asked for it and you got it!
Color - but works in black and white too.
Sound - Cool interactive sounds.
Baloon Help - Balloon Help for almost every feature
On Line Help - Complete Documentation
Printing - Great looking print outs
Import TEXT Files - Import your favorite recipes easily.
Export TEXT Files - Export in a unique format that looks nice, but is
also easily imported into other versions of Amy's Recipes.
=46ind - Find a recipe by a key word or phrase
Easy User Interface - Everything is easy to do.
Bug Info:
Version 2.4 fixes the bug that kept it from working on PowerPC Macs. If
you encounter a problem, try running the program without any extensions
loaded. There may be an extension conflict. (Restart the computer while
holding down the shift key.) Amy's recipes may still be incompatible
with NOW Utilities.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/amys-recipes-24.hqx; 972K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:19:09 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] AtariVD Editor 1.2.1
AtariVD Editor allows you to create and edit virtual disks for Atari 8-bit
computers (Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE, etc.) on the Macintosh. The virtual disks
can be used with Rainbow, Chris Lam's Atari 800/800XL/130XE emulator for the
Macintosh, or with PCXFormer.
AtariVD Editor recognizes 8-bit virtual disks in these file formats:
.ATR: Nick Kennedy's SIO ATR file format with a 16 byte header.
.XFD: No header. File contains only the disk sectors themselves.
.ATD: AtariDisk format. Has a 16 byte Macintosh header.
AtariVD Editor is capable of reading, writing, and creating virtual disks in
both Atari DOS 2.0/2.5 and MyDOS 4.5 formats. In MyDOS format, you can create
virtual disks from 720 to 65535 sectors of 128 or 256 bytes. MyDOS assumes
high capacity (over 1040 sector) disks have 256 byte sectors, however.
Supported Atari 8-bit disk formats:
810 Single density (720 128-byte sectors) - DOS 2.x / MyDOS 4.5.
1050 "Enhanced" density (1040 128-byte sectors) - DOS 2.x / MyDOS 4.5.
MyDOS 4.5 disks from 720-65535 128/256-byte sectors. (90K-16MB)
A text conversion feature with ATASCII Macintosh text conversion is also
provided.
System Requirements:
Any Macintosh using System 7.0 or later.
Changes in version 1.2.1, 6/29/96
* Changed "Write Sector" button title to "Save Sector" to match
documentation.
* Added Find Again command.
* Redesigned virtual disk header information display.
* Other minor cosmetic changes to some dialogs, etc.
* Replaced directory path window with a pop-up menu allowing upward
subdirectory navigation.
AtariVD Editor 1.2.1 is freeware. Have fun!
AtariVD Editor may be distributed on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
Richard A. Carvel
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/atari-virtual-disk-edit-122.hqx; 179K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:10 -0700
From: (Jae Ho Chang)[email protected]
Subject: [*] BifurcationOscillator 1.0
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
BifurcationOscillator is a sound generating tool that uses a
well-known chaotic function, the Bifurcation function. This
program has some transformer for making new and good sounds
>From the chaotic series of values. This program might be
useful to modern sound artists.
* System Requirements
System 7.1 or later.
Thanks!
Jae Ho Chang
eMusicas softwares
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/bifurcation-oscillator-10b2.hqx; 70K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:31 -0700
From: (Miles Michelson)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Connect4 1.1.4
This is a connect 4 game with many options, different board sizes, various
levels of difficultly, a tough computer opponent, nice graphics and a
few other surprises, try it out. I'm sure you'll like it.
Connect4 program is emailware. If you like it or have suggestions for
improvements, send me a message at [email protected].
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/connect-4-114.hqx; 168K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:19:29 -0700
From: (Christian Huldt)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Eudora mailto helper v0.1d5
Eudora mailto helper is a slight modification of Eudora GURL handler, that
i) does about the same thing as Eudora GURL handler
ii) can be registered with netscape ( and internet explorer?) for the
mailto protocol
iii) has the ability to handle multiple mail settings (e.g. for shared
macs) with
or without the scriptable Finder.
I wrote it for because I needed it, but then people started asking for it...
It does take a few steps to setup, but that's in the read me.
This version requires the scriptable Finder, but a no-scriptable
Finderversion is
included
updated docs, should be able to launch Eudora no matter what name the
application
has
Share and enjoy
improvements, questions & comments to [email protected]
may be included on cd-roms, but I would really appreciate a copy
Christian
------
Christian Huldt
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/eudora-mailto-helper-01d5.hqx; 52K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:57 -0700
From: (Michael Fan)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Munchies v1.0.6
Munchies! by Michael Fan is a fun and addictive arcade game for the
Macintosh. Guide Melvin the Munchie through 45 different levels, eat all
the food while dodging skulls, flying forks, knives, and poison-flinging
spoons. Eating a peapod gives Melvin exploding peas to defend himself.
Features include: special shots, mouse-controlled movement, MOD music
soundtrack,and lots of great food icons. Works in 256 colors or B&W and
supports all monitor sizes. System 7 required. Sound Manager 3.0 or better
recommended. $8 shareware.
Munchies Home Page:
E-mail:
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/munchies-106.hqx; 480K]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:57:51 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#337/22-Jul-96
TidBITS#337/22-Jul-96
Tune in this week for important news about an upcoming change to our
mailing list, plus news of Apple's third quarter results, Power Computing's
speedy new Macs, Speed Doubler 1.3, and HyperCard 2.3.5. Additional
articles cover a variety of Internet server software announced at
Mactivity, the WYSIWYG Web authoring tool golive, and rumours about
upcoming Macs from Apple.
Topics:
MailBITS/22-Jul-96
The Big Mailing List Move!
More New Net Announcements
Go Live with Golive
Apples on the Horizon
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:14:46 +0100
From: Chris Hanson
Subject: (Q)-230 MO
I have had many problems with 128MO drives and disks. I like MO much
better than zip or syquest for reliablility. I was wondering what peoples
impressions of 230 MO was. If I could get some feedback about general
experiences (bad or good) with these are. If you do respond could you
include who you bought it form (APS or whatever). Thanx a lot in advance
for the info.
-chanson
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:14:03 -0700
From: John Eckman
Subject: Frank Price III's Terminal Program
A few weeks (a month?) ago a new terminal program was uploaded to
info-mac written by Frank Price (the third?).
I can't seem to find it. Of course, the fact that I can't remember what
it was called is part of the problem.
Please reply to me directly, as I imagine several of you know the answer,
and very few other readers care to know.
John
p.s. FWIW, Frank Price was the original author of Hermes, as well as one
of the original authors of MacIntercomm. I had dl'ed the new program, and
it contained an extensive "read me" file, in the form of a .pdf doc,
retelling the history of those programs. I mentioned this on a local bbs,
but had already deleted the file from my mac- now they want to see it,
and I can't find it!
John Eckman
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:31:02 +0800
From: [email protected] (Ariel Alampay)
Subject: multiple mailboxes
Is there a software which would allow me to check my mail from multiple
mailboxes with a single command? It can be tiresome to keep changing Eudora's
settings and entering my passwords for each mailbox.
Regards,
Ariel
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:11:54 -0700
From: John Eckman
Subject: On July 27 at 10:04 AM, The Moderators wrote:
"Elleni B. Fellows" wrote:
>Actually, there is an eaiser way to pick and choose which cookies you accept.
>In Nescape, go to: 'Options -> Network Preferences -> Protocols.' There is a
>check box: 'Show Alert Before Accepting a Cookie.' Check this and everytime a
site
>wants to add to your cookie file, you will be prompted with and 'Yes or No'
dialog box.
Of course, this depends on what version of Netscape you use. In version
2.02, for 68k machines, which I run, this preference does not exist.
John Eckman
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:15:27 -0400
From: [email protected] ([email protected])
Subject: OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keith,
In Info-Mac v14 #170 you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I need some help. I'm looking for an old Mac shareware extension called
>"The Grouch" in which Oscar the Grouch popped out of the trashcan & sang
>upon emptying the trash. Since I understand the originl programmer had
>legal problems w/ CTW, it was pulled from all public domain servers.
>I'm not very familiar w/ newsgroups or else I would look there.
>
>Can you help me find a copy by e-mail?
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>Keith : )
You can find The Grouch and other (insert adjective here) Mac tricks at El
Grande Mac Hacks Page .
Ben
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 19:19:06 +0100
From: [email protected] (adrian faigon)
Subject: Real Audio and Global Chat. Asking for help
A month after having them installed, and after trying at several url's
without success, I've decided that something is going wrong here.
After trying a connection with Real Audio Player I get the
message:"REAL AUDIO ERROR=18 SERVER DISCONNECTED. THE SERVER IS PROBABLY
TOO BUSY AT THIS TIME".
With Global Chat it is not better:"COULDN'T OPEN A CONNECTION TO
'....' THE REMOTE HOST DID NOT RESPOND. RESULT CODE=-23015".
Both programs were installed following the corresponding
instructions in Netscape 2.01, running on my 6100 Power Mac with system
7.5.
Any suggestion?
Thanks. Adrian Faigon.
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:54:00 -0400
From: "Calamai, Peter"
Subject: Spell-checker for Microsoft Mail for Mac
Is anyone aware of a shareware or commercial spell-checker that works in
conjunction with Microsoft Mail on the Mac?
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:57:45 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
Info-macers:
Here is a followup to my LONG article that appeared in
Info-Mac Digest V14 #170.
> I am experiencing a failure in Stuffit Expander which reports:
>
> Sorry, but a disk related error
> (I/O Error - Bad Media?) has occurred.
>
> Infrequently it reports "volume locked" instead of "bad media". I am
> at my wits end. I am in touch with [email protected] who is
> experiencing the same symptoms on the same Performa model. Read on if
> you think you have seen this or you think you might be able to help,
> or you are masochistic, or ...
Aladdin tech support responded very promptly with the following:
> We have started having this message since the release of 7.5.3, and
> seems to be directly related to that update. We are working with
> Apple to try and come up with an acceptable solution, but to this
> time there is no 100% workaround. I have attached some comments
> from our enginering group that have helped some users in some cases.
>
> StuffIt just happens to be one of the few applications that uses
> asynchronous I/O on the Macintosh to it's full extent, which shows
> off the "problem"you are seeing.
>
> Apparently some changes in the disk cache, drivers, etc. (we don't
> know for sure what yet) in 7.5.3 have caused the possibility of I/O
> errors when a combination of DIFFERENTLY formatted drives exists on
> an SCSI chain.
>
> Formatting ALL mounted volumes with the same driver WHICH MUST BE
> SCSI Manager 4.3 (ie. asynchronous scsi) aware, will generally
> correct the situation.
>
> If the you can't format all volumes with the same driver (like say a
> ZIP cartridge), then at least make sure that your BOOT volume is
> properly formatted with the proper disk driver.
>
> In some other cases disabling Open Transport and returning to
> "classic" connectivity has helped as well.
>
> We like to think that the "bug" isn't ours since prior to 7.5.3
> there were no reports of any of these kinds of issues. We are
> willing to admit that it is possible that previous versions of the
> OS may have "screened" issues that might have been lurking in
> Expander and Deluxe, but they sure seemed very stable.
>
> When we have the final solution to this one available, it will be
> announced via our web page (http://www.aladdinsys.com) and made
> available on our ftp site (ftp://ftp.aladdinsys.com/pub) as well as
> on our forums on AOL and Compuserve.
>
> Also, both Expander and DropStuff need to be at the same major
> version number to work in concert. In order for Expander/DropStuff
> 4.0 to work properly with the other, you will need to update them
> both to the 4.x level.
Another info-macer responded saying that other data on this problem
strongly suggested that the common thread was having an IBM Disk which
was claimed to not do asynchronous I/O correctly under some
conditions. So far, there are 4 confirmed machines suffering from
this problem, and all of them have IBM disk drives.
- 2 Performa 6115CDs with IBM DSAS-3360 S47T
- 1 6100 with IBM
- 1 7100/66 with IBM DSAS-3540
Info-mac is an incredible resource. Thank you for the almost instant
responses. I am sure much more information will be forthcoming. I
will try to act as a focal point for the information and I will
publish updates when more is known.
Peter
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:14:00 -0700
From: John Eckman
Subject: TCP/IP Switch Configurations
In info-mac digest v.14 #170, Bill Stanford
writes:
>But if your second provider is only used for mail (as is often the case),
>there's an easier way:
>
>Use Eudora as your mail program.
Or, to add a third way, even easier: use Claris Emailer as your mail
program. In Emailer there is no need to create two settings files- you
can create two "services" within Emailer and have them both scheduled to
run, regardless of which provider you are connected to.
This is, in fact, one of the situations Emailer is designed to handle-
multiple accounts on different POP servers.
John Eckman
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:55:02 -0400
From: [email protected] (Howard M. Fried)
Subject: Why is ram disk a shared volume?
Does this make sense? I'm using AppDisk 1.6.1, a ram disk utility, as a
repository for Netscape cache files. AppDisk writes its contents to the
hard drive prior to shutting down--a nice feature. Anyway, all of a
sudden, now, whenever I launch Fetch or Anarchie, the AppleShare dialog
box opens up, saying "Connected to Shared Disk AppDisk 1.6.1", waiting for
a password (or a cancel, which I promptly select). Also, when I click on
File Transfer in Internet Config the same thing happens. But, FTP from
within Netscape does not elicit this behavior.
Why has AppDisk become a shared disk? I do not even have File Sharing
activated, although I did have it on at one point to transfer some files
>From an old to a new machine. The old machine also had AppDisk up and
running on it; perhaps there's a connection here. And, how do I eliminate
this minor but annoying behavior?
TIA,
Howard M. Fried
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:31:17 -0700
From: [email protected] (Dewey Maxwell)
My wife regularly creates a listing of approximately 100 spelling words in
4 columns. Does anyone know of a program that will place all of these
columns in alphabetical order? Shareware if possible.
Thanks - Dewey
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