Info-Mac Digest V14 #172
Posted: July 24th, 1996, 4:00 am
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 24 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 172
Today's Topics:
[!] Delays on Info-Mac
(A) Upgrading a Performa to millions of colors
(Q) Help needed with b&w images in Photoshop
[A]multiple mailboxes
[A] Multiple Stickies files
[Q] System 7.5.3 compatability question
antivirals
Apple PCI Pentium Card
Connecting PCI Pentium Card & IBMPC
GIF file writting
Info-Mac Digest V14 #171
Listserv questions
Macs and Organisers
Monitor flickering??
Open Doc's Stationery Folder
OSCAR (C)
Performa 550 enablers
PowerMac 7100/66AV sound input problems
Re-Oscar
Re- Subject- Spell-checker
Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
System Auto-Death
Textures printing problem
Warning: be careful in upgrading SpeedDoubler
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:12:32 -0700
From: [email protected] (Info-Mac Archivist)
Subject: [!] Delays on Info-Mac
Hello Mac Fans Everywhere,
We have on the menusome good news, some bad news, and a survey.
First the bad news:
As you may have noticed, there are substantial delays on Info-Mac again. I
apologize for this inconvenience. There have been technical problems as
well as some time constraints. Files are coming though again, but please
note that we are approximately 1.5 - 2 weeks behind. Also (for technical
reasons I won't get into) the first files uploaded recently were the
largest in the backlog, but now are returning to the chronological order.
Now the good news:
To minimize the delays that we have been experiencing lately, we have taken
advantage of offers of help. There are now two and a half new archivists in
training, so I expect once we are up to speed things will be much better.
And now the survey question:
I am developing new ways for people to submit software to Info-Mac that
will make my job easier and reduce the time a file waits to be uploaded to
under 24 hours. I need to know by what means people submit (or would like
to submit) files. Currently the favorite is email over FTP. Would people
prefer:
A) ... a Macintosh based application that would require helper applications
and an Internet or PPP/SLIP connection?
B) ... a web based form to submit file?
C) ... something else?
Your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions are welcome. Please send your survey
answer to [email protected] with "Archiving Survey" as the subject (no
quotes of course). Due to the volume of replies I may get, I cannot
guarantee a response to every email.
Thanks to everyone for your support and patience.
Demitri Muna
Info-Mac Archivist
[Despite the delays in processing of submissions, we will attempt to keep
discussion alive by publishing daily.--Mike]
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:57:21 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul [not "Brian"] Brians)
Subject: (A) Upgrading a Performa to millions of colors
It turns out you can upgrade a Performa 6214CD to display millions of
colors if you add a video card in the PDS slot. Though these are reportedly
in short supply, I identified three, one from Apple, one from Lapis and a
third from Power Computing. The amount of VRAM you need depends on the size
of the monitor. The Power Computing one needs a bracket to adapt it to the
Mac, and they won't sell on purchase order, but it's the cheapest.
Our campus store had a Lapis in stock at a decent price and I went for it.
Thanks to the various folks who wrote me about this.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:57:18 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul [not "Brian"] Brians)
Subject: (Q) Help needed with b&w images in Photoshop
I am trying to create jpegs or gifs of some pages of a Russian book to be
displayed on my Web site. The point is to reproduce the Russian so that
Russian readers can read it. However, my scans come out too large when they
are saved at a resolution sufficient to make them cleanly legible. I have
been told that there are tricks one can use in this situation to reduce the
size of the files drastically, but I haven't been able to get any detailed
help. I'm using Photoshop for the image editing. I am not a regular
Photoshop user and don't want to subscribe to a Photoshop list just to get
this one question answered, and nobody answers in the Photoshop newsgroup.
Is there anyone out there who can help?
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:51:28 -0700
From: [email protected] (Doug Brouwer, Santa Cruz)
Subject: [A]multiple mailboxes
>Is there a software which would allow me to check my mail from multiple
mailboxes with a single command?
You can use CommuniGate to do this. Excellent software and the price is =
right.
Doug=
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:30:55 +0200
From: [email protected] (Marten Kooistra)
Subject: [A] Multiple Stickies files
Hi there,
In digest #170 Reg Lee asked if there was a way for different copies of
the Stickies program to use different Stickies files:
>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 00:50:49 -0700
>
>Is there any way to make multiple Stickies applications with
>corresponding data files?
>
>Renaming Stickies doesn't work; the new copy just keeps using the
>original data file. This could be a wonderful tool for organizing ideas,
>if it could be used for multiple sets. Any help appreciated.
The answer is YES! The solution is to get out ResEdit, and open a *copy* of
Stickies (other ResEdit precautions and disclaimers also apply. Remember:
if it doesn't do what I say it does I didn't tell you to do it; or
something like that...
.
Open the STR# resource, and there you'll see that ID=128 is called
'Filenames' (what a giveaway). Open that, and the second item there is
"Stickies file". That is the name of the file Stickies uses to save your
messages in (see your 'Preferences' folder). Change it to whatever you
want, and hey presto: you have two Stickies programs that use two different
files! Make as many as you can handle.
Bonus info:
This also works for the Scrapbook. Only here you have to change item #4 of
STR# resource ID=1000 ('Scrapbook Strings') to something else than
"Scrapbook File".
That's all there is to it. Enjoy! (hey, it's a Mac; what else can you do
with it?)
ciao,
-Marten Kooistra
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 10:56:58 EST
From: "John Stevens"
Subject: [Q] System 7.5.3 compatability question
I will shortly be upgrading my LC (10Mb RAM) from System 7.0.1
to System 7.5.3
Major applications used are Word 5.1a, MYOB 5, FaxStf 2.6 &
ClarisWorks 3. Do any of these require upgrades to avoid
problems when run under System 7.5.3?
Thanks
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:23:53 -0600
From: (Rollo Silver)
Subject: antivirals
I've been a loyal Disinfectant user for ages, but it appears that
Disinfectant hasn't been upgraded for a long time, and I suspect there are
a number of Mac viruses it won't detect.
Any suggestions as to antivirals that are kept up to date?
Rollo Silver / Amygdala | e-mail: [email protected]
216M N. Pueblo Rd, #107 | Website: http://www.artvark.com/artvark/
Taos, NM 87571 USA | Voice: 505-751-9601; FAX: 505-751-7507
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:23:48 +0800
From: David Low
Subject: Apple PCI Pentium Card
I have a 7600 with a Apple PCI Pentium Card installed. Just a couple more
questions.
What are the limitations of using a modem under Win95/Dos connected to Mac
printer port (I understand that it is limited to 19.2k) and Why?
Has anyone used Kali on a Dos compatible machine to play multiplayer games
across the internet?
Please email responese to the following address [email protected], I will
endeavour to post a summary of the responses.
TIA
David Low
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:23:48 +0800
From: David Low
Subject: Connecting PCI Pentium Card & IBMPC
I have a 486 Compaq and a 7600 with a Apple PCI Pentium card. I wish to
transfer files under Win95, which is installed on both machines. In addition
I wish to play multiplayer games using a null modem conection.
To date I have managed to conect a 7200 DOS Compatibleto to my 7600 DOS
Compatible using a standard serial (printer) cable and have played Doom
style games. Now I need a serial cable to connect Mac serial to a Compaq
Prolinea 4/100 (DB9 serial connector). My questions are;
Will this work?
Has anyone had any experience with this?
Where can I get such a cable (I'm in Australia)?
Will the cable work over 10 metres (25 feet)?
Please email responese to the following address [email protected], I will
endeavour to post a summary of the responses.
TIA
David Low
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:36:06 +0530 (GMT+5:30)
From: "MR. BIRENDRASINGH CHADHA"
Subject: GIF file writting
To Helpfull Soul:
I am looking for C source code to Read/Write GIF Files on the Mac. If
anybody has any idea about how to get these source codes, please send me
message.
Thanks.
M. Chadha
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:27:11 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #171
>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.
WordPerfect will sort table rows. (Not shareware, though.)
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:29:56 -0500
From: [email protected] (Edward Ver Hoef)
Subject: Listserv questions
A church of which I am a member is considering the establishment of a
website. In addition, there is a daily publication produced by a group for
which we might wish to archive back issues and automate maintenance of the
subscription list. It appears (from my very limited knowledge of such
things) that this would be a function that could be done by a listserv. I
would appreeciate it if someone could confirm or correct that belief and,
if it is correct, point me to some source for the information I would need
to learn how to do this. Thanks in advance.
Ed Ver Hoef
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:40:24 +0800
From: [email protected] (Wan Nik Ahmad Mustafa)
Subject: Macs and Organisers
>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
I find that Sharp IQ-8920 Electronic organiser is pretty handy. I have been
using it for about two years now and it is still good, even though there
are many newer models ( ZQ series ) that appear in the market since then.
It measures 155 x 97 x 23.9mm, and weighs 300gm with batteries ( 2pcs AAA
size ). Fits in easily into a trouser pocket.
Exchanging information with a Mac is very simple using either CE-IR2
wireless interface or Organiser Link cable. You'll need an Organiser Link
III software for infra red transfer ( Sharp IQ-993 ). I used to have a
Sharp IQ-8200 organiser some years back and was able to exchange much more
data with the Mac using that organiser, by cable link and Organiser Link
software ( IQ-793A ). Organiser Link III,unfortunately do not permit
exchange of information from IC cards to the Mac.
Hope this may be of help.
Dr. Wan N. A. Mustafa Voice : 60-7-3323828
Johor Baru, Malaysia. Fax : 60-7-3313828
e-mail : wannam@ pc.jaring.my
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:40:35 -0400
From: Tim McCleary
Subject: Monitor flickering??
[I don't know if this message got through before, so I apologize if this
appears twice...]
Hello all!
I've been having problems with using a monitor with my Performa 600CD. Most
times when I use it, the monitor flickers at an annoying rate. I've tried
taking both the computer and monitor into an Authorized Apple Dealer, and
they were stumped. Calling Apple's Support Hotline turned up no real
answers either. They suggested that the flickering is probably caused by
interference of some sort. I tried moving the computer and monitor to a
different location (several in fact) to no avail.
If I attach the monitor to my Performa 6200CD or PowerBook 165, it works
without a hitch...not a sign of flickering. However, no matter which
computer I connect it to, the image is on a slight angle.
What I'd like to know is what is causing this flickering problem and can it
harm my monitor in any way? It is obviously caused by my Performa 600CD,
but what? (It is a stock P600CD, with 160mb HD, memory upgraded to 8mb.)
Also, is there any way to adjust the angle at which the image is displayed?
I remember reading how to fix this sort of problem on other types of
monitors...
Any light that can be shed on this annoying problem would be appreciated!
Tim McCleary
([email protected])
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:10:01 -0400
From: [email protected] (Eric Peloquin)
Subject: Open Doc's Stationery Folder
Hi all,
I have installed, on my PowerMac 6100, Open Doc 1.0.4. The Installer put a
folder called "Stationery" on the root level of my start up hard drive. My
question is : can I move it anywhere I want to in my hard drive folders?
If so, do I have to do something special with the "Editor setup" control
panel?
Thanks in advance everyone.
Eric Peloquin
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 20:19:18 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom"
Subject: OSCAR (C)
On Tue, 23 Jul, Ben Magbanua wrote
>>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.
>
>You can find The Grouch and other (insert adjective here) Mac tricks at El
>Grande Mac Hacks Page .
Oh well done, Ben. The Muppet Masters who objected to Oscar in the first
place will now threaten that site's owner with legal action, too.
There is a rule of thumb when dealing with copyright infringement issues.
Don't say in public where that copyright is being infringed.
Now if I were to be a copyright infringer, not that I would be, I'd tell
the person privately that I had a copy of The Grouch and offer to send it
to him or her. Or I would tell him or her -- again privately -- where to
find it.
A word to the wise should be sufficient.
Al Bloom
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:57:05 -0600
From: "Mark J. Miller"
Subject: Performa 550 enablers
I'm looking for info about the enablers for the Performa 550. Were any
updates
issued? I checked Apple Support. After updating to System 7.5.0 the enablers
stayed at 7.1p. Does the upgrade to 7.5.0 or update 2.0 replace any functions
the enablers used to handle?
Thanks, Mark Miller
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:39:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kelvin Edmison"
Subject: PowerMac 7100/66AV sound input problems
I have a 7100/66A (System 7.5.3) with an AudioVision 14 monitor.
For the life of me, I can't seem to record the audio from a VCR.
I have the RCA-plug-to-mini-stereo adaptor, but any attempt I make
to record using this fails. However, I can plug in my PlainTalk
microphone into the same sound in port and record my voice with it
just fine. I'm starting to think that there may be some motherboard
problems or stereo in connector problems.
Does anyone know what is happening and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Kelvin Edmison
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:37:47 -0400
From: [email protected] (Anthony Krusinckas)
Subject: Re-Oscar
>
>------------------------------
>Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:57:21 +0000
>From: Keith M Sedor
>Subject: OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>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 : )
>
I am not sure if it is still there, but I found my Oscar on a Mac
Hacking page which I happened upon through Yahoo going under personel
computers.
I hope this helps
Anthony
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Date: 24 Jul 1996 12:12:06 -0600
From: "WJ Shack"
Subject: Re- Subject- Spell-checker
>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?
I have long used Thunder 7 which is a universal spell checker for Mac programs
(and provided "autotext" long before Word 6 along with a number of other
features). Now reborn as SpellCatcher from Casady & Greene.
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:04:08 -0700
From: [email protected] (Space Case)
Subject: Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
On Jul 23, [email protected] wrote:
>Aladdin tech support responded very promptly with the following:
>>
>> 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.
I have a 1.7GB disk, divided up into 256MB partitions. It was formatted
with a recent version of Hard Disk Toolkit PE. I'm running MacOS 7.5.3.
I had been having troubles copying files from one partition to another,
frequently causing system crashes. (Just from copying files!)
I had an idea, and disabled the HDT Extension. No more crashes.
Just another data point...
~Steve
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:22:23 -0700
From: DJ Sherman
Subject: System Auto-Death
>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. ... the whole thing just shut off.
Here's a guess from a non-engineer, just a user who had and solved a
similar problem on a PowerMac 7100AV.
When a Mac is shut down by having it's power suddenly yanked it doesn't
have a chance to do the diagnostics, checks and balances, etc., whatever,
it does when properly shut down from the Special menu or the
Control-Command-On/Off Switch key stroke combo. This seems to scramble the
SCSI in such a way that only such diagnostics as Apple Disk First Aid,
Norton Disk Doctor, Symantec Mac Tools, etc. (sometimes all of them) are
needed to repair.
Sometimes even they aren't enough and it becomes necessary to back up and
reformat your startup drive.
As usual, first steps would be re-boot (of course), re-boot with extensions
disabled, re-build the desktop, zap the PRAM, then, if needed, the
diagnostics, followed, if needed, by the re-installation of System
Software, and, as a last resort, backup and reformat the boot drive.
Is it possible you or a child, a pet, or an angry poltergeist could have
inadvertently disconnected the power to your Mac, either by hitting the off
button on the back of the box, or by yanking the cord? How about a power
company interrupt? Obviously, a fraction of a second could do it. Your
reference to "a very hot day" makes me suspect the latter. Were you
running air conditioning? Do you have self-resetting breakers?
As I said, I'm anything but an engineer, just a Mac user, so if the above
is obvious, mundane, or otherwise useless, please forgive the waste of
bandwidth.
- Don Sherman
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:10:38 EDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Textures printing problem
I have found the following problem trying to print Latex output from Textures
with an HP Deskwriter (either the original or the newer 660C). In a file with
material in math mode, at the point where the text switches from math mode to
ordinary text, the printer inserts a spurious lower case Greek letter psi. The
letter agrees in size and in whether it is on the line or sub/superscripted
with the last character of the math mode text. I have tried versions 3, 4, and
6 of the HP printer driver to no avail. Has anyone else come across this
problem and maybe solved it? The problem does not occur when I print to a
postscript laser printer.
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:08:06 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul [not "Brian"] Brians)
Subject: Warning: be careful in upgrading SpeedDoubler
I just did something stupid. I intended to run the new SpeedDoubler updater
but absent mindedly reinstalled a new copy of SD over my installed one from
the floppy disk by accident. I shrugged when I realized what I had done and
went ahead with the upgrade (the reason the SD install disk was in the
drive was that I was anticipating the updater's need to write to it, but in
fact it ejected the disk first and then asked me to reinsert it). Yes I had
started up with extensions and virus detection off. I didn't look to see
whether I had created two copies of SD on my hard disk. The install disk
had itself been updated previously.
When I restarted the first thing that happened was that the Finder informed
me that my RAM disk was not a Macintosh disk, would I like to eject or
initialize it? I "initialized it." I decided this was weird and that I'd
better reboot with extensions off again. This time I got almost to the
Finder, menubar displayed but not yet accessible, and got warnings that
there was not enough RAM to mount any of my disks or display the Finder,
though I have 49 megs installed. Yes, I have RAM Doubler, but remember, it
was not running, because I had restarted with the shift key held down. Two
more tries led to the same result. I tried starting up from the system CD
holding down the S key--twice--but it didn't work. The Mac continued to try
to start up from the damaged internal disk. I could have tried other
things, but I was running out of time and the machine is still under
warranty, so I took it to the shop, where it was headed for a card
installation.
I'm running System 7.4.3 on a Performa 6214CD.
I'm not sure it was my botched update attempt that caused the problem, but
just in case, look before you click!
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 24 Jul 96 Volume 14 : Issue 172
Today's Topics:
[!] Delays on Info-Mac
(A) Upgrading a Performa to millions of colors
(Q) Help needed with b&w images in Photoshop
[A]multiple mailboxes
[A] Multiple Stickies files
[Q] System 7.5.3 compatability question
antivirals
Apple PCI Pentium Card
Connecting PCI Pentium Card & IBMPC
GIF file writting
Info-Mac Digest V14 #171
Listserv questions
Macs and Organisers
Monitor flickering??
Open Doc's Stationery Folder
OSCAR (C)
Performa 550 enablers
PowerMac 7100/66AV sound input problems
Re-Oscar
Re- Subject- Spell-checker
Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
System Auto-Death
Textures printing problem
Warning: be careful in upgrading SpeedDoubler
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:12:32 -0700
From: [email protected] (Info-Mac Archivist)
Subject: [!] Delays on Info-Mac
Hello Mac Fans Everywhere,
We have on the menusome good news, some bad news, and a survey.
First the bad news:
As you may have noticed, there are substantial delays on Info-Mac again. I
apologize for this inconvenience. There have been technical problems as
well as some time constraints. Files are coming though again, but please
note that we are approximately 1.5 - 2 weeks behind. Also (for technical
reasons I won't get into) the first files uploaded recently were the
largest in the backlog, but now are returning to the chronological order.
Now the good news:
To minimize the delays that we have been experiencing lately, we have taken
advantage of offers of help. There are now two and a half new archivists in
training, so I expect once we are up to speed things will be much better.
And now the survey question:
I am developing new ways for people to submit software to Info-Mac that
will make my job easier and reduce the time a file waits to be uploaded to
under 24 hours. I need to know by what means people submit (or would like
to submit) files. Currently the favorite is email over FTP. Would people
prefer:
A) ... a Macintosh based application that would require helper applications
and an Internet or PPP/SLIP connection?
B) ... a web based form to submit file?
C) ... something else?
Your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions are welcome. Please send your survey
answer to [email protected] with "Archiving Survey" as the subject (no
quotes of course). Due to the volume of replies I may get, I cannot
guarantee a response to every email.
Thanks to everyone for your support and patience.
Demitri Muna
Info-Mac Archivist
[Despite the delays in processing of submissions, we will attempt to keep
discussion alive by publishing daily.--Mike]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:57:21 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul [not "Brian"] Brians)
Subject: (A) Upgrading a Performa to millions of colors
It turns out you can upgrade a Performa 6214CD to display millions of
colors if you add a video card in the PDS slot. Though these are reportedly
in short supply, I identified three, one from Apple, one from Lapis and a
third from Power Computing. The amount of VRAM you need depends on the size
of the monitor. The Power Computing one needs a bracket to adapt it to the
Mac, and they won't sell on purchase order, but it's the cheapest.
Our campus store had a Lapis in stock at a decent price and I went for it.
Thanks to the various folks who wrote me about this.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:57:18 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul [not "Brian"] Brians)
Subject: (Q) Help needed with b&w images in Photoshop
I am trying to create jpegs or gifs of some pages of a Russian book to be
displayed on my Web site. The point is to reproduce the Russian so that
Russian readers can read it. However, my scans come out too large when they
are saved at a resolution sufficient to make them cleanly legible. I have
been told that there are tricks one can use in this situation to reduce the
size of the files drastically, but I haven't been able to get any detailed
help. I'm using Photoshop for the image editing. I am not a regular
Photoshop user and don't want to subscribe to a Photoshop list just to get
this one question answered, and nobody answers in the Photoshop newsgroup.
Is there anyone out there who can help?
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:51:28 -0700
From: [email protected] (Doug Brouwer, Santa Cruz)
Subject: [A]multiple mailboxes
>Is there a software which would allow me to check my mail from multiple
mailboxes with a single command?
You can use CommuniGate to do this. Excellent software and the price is =
right.
Doug=
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:30:55 +0200
From: [email protected] (Marten Kooistra)
Subject: [A] Multiple Stickies files
Hi there,
In digest #170 Reg Lee asked if there was a way for different copies of
the Stickies program to use different Stickies files:
>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 00:50:49 -0700
>
>Is there any way to make multiple Stickies applications with
>corresponding data files?
>
>Renaming Stickies doesn't work; the new copy just keeps using the
>original data file. This could be a wonderful tool for organizing ideas,
>if it could be used for multiple sets. Any help appreciated.
The answer is YES! The solution is to get out ResEdit, and open a *copy* of
Stickies (other ResEdit precautions and disclaimers also apply. Remember:
if it doesn't do what I say it does I didn't tell you to do it; or
something like that...
.Open the STR# resource, and there you'll see that ID=128 is called
'Filenames' (what a giveaway). Open that, and the second item there is
"Stickies file". That is the name of the file Stickies uses to save your
messages in (see your 'Preferences' folder). Change it to whatever you
want, and hey presto: you have two Stickies programs that use two different
files! Make as many as you can handle.
Bonus info:
This also works for the Scrapbook. Only here you have to change item #4 of
STR# resource ID=1000 ('Scrapbook Strings') to something else than
"Scrapbook File".
That's all there is to it. Enjoy! (hey, it's a Mac; what else can you do
with it?)
ciao,
-Marten Kooistra
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 10:56:58 EST
From: "John Stevens"
Subject: [Q] System 7.5.3 compatability question
I will shortly be upgrading my LC (10Mb RAM) from System 7.0.1
to System 7.5.3
Major applications used are Word 5.1a, MYOB 5, FaxStf 2.6 &
ClarisWorks 3. Do any of these require upgrades to avoid
problems when run under System 7.5.3?
Thanks
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:23:53 -0600
From: (Rollo Silver)
Subject: antivirals
I've been a loyal Disinfectant user for ages, but it appears that
Disinfectant hasn't been upgraded for a long time, and I suspect there are
a number of Mac viruses it won't detect.
Any suggestions as to antivirals that are kept up to date?
Rollo Silver / Amygdala | e-mail: [email protected]
216M N. Pueblo Rd, #107 | Website: http://www.artvark.com/artvark/
Taos, NM 87571 USA | Voice: 505-751-9601; FAX: 505-751-7507
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:23:48 +0800
From: David Low
Subject: Apple PCI Pentium Card
I have a 7600 with a Apple PCI Pentium Card installed. Just a couple more
questions.
What are the limitations of using a modem under Win95/Dos connected to Mac
printer port (I understand that it is limited to 19.2k) and Why?
Has anyone used Kali on a Dos compatible machine to play multiplayer games
across the internet?
Please email responese to the following address [email protected], I will
endeavour to post a summary of the responses.
TIA
David Low
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:23:48 +0800
From: David Low
Subject: Connecting PCI Pentium Card & IBMPC
I have a 486 Compaq and a 7600 with a Apple PCI Pentium card. I wish to
transfer files under Win95, which is installed on both machines. In addition
I wish to play multiplayer games using a null modem conection.
To date I have managed to conect a 7200 DOS Compatibleto to my 7600 DOS
Compatible using a standard serial (printer) cable and have played Doom
style games. Now I need a serial cable to connect Mac serial to a Compaq
Prolinea 4/100 (DB9 serial connector). My questions are;
Will this work?
Has anyone had any experience with this?
Where can I get such a cable (I'm in Australia)?
Will the cable work over 10 metres (25 feet)?
Please email responese to the following address [email protected], I will
endeavour to post a summary of the responses.
TIA
David Low
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:36:06 +0530 (GMT+5:30)
From: "MR. BIRENDRASINGH CHADHA"
Subject: GIF file writting
To Helpfull Soul:
I am looking for C source code to Read/Write GIF Files on the Mac. If
anybody has any idea about how to get these source codes, please send me
message.
Thanks.
M. Chadha
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:27:11 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #171
>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.
WordPerfect will sort table rows. (Not shareware, though.)
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:29:56 -0500
From: [email protected] (Edward Ver Hoef)
Subject: Listserv questions
A church of which I am a member is considering the establishment of a
website. In addition, there is a daily publication produced by a group for
which we might wish to archive back issues and automate maintenance of the
subscription list. It appears (from my very limited knowledge of such
things) that this would be a function that could be done by a listserv. I
would appreeciate it if someone could confirm or correct that belief and,
if it is correct, point me to some source for the information I would need
to learn how to do this. Thanks in advance.
Ed Ver Hoef
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:40:24 +0800
From: [email protected] (Wan Nik Ahmad Mustafa)
Subject: Macs and Organisers
>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
I find that Sharp IQ-8920 Electronic organiser is pretty handy. I have been
using it for about two years now and it is still good, even though there
are many newer models ( ZQ series ) that appear in the market since then.
It measures 155 x 97 x 23.9mm, and weighs 300gm with batteries ( 2pcs AAA
size ). Fits in easily into a trouser pocket.
Exchanging information with a Mac is very simple using either CE-IR2
wireless interface or Organiser Link cable. You'll need an Organiser Link
III software for infra red transfer ( Sharp IQ-993 ). I used to have a
Sharp IQ-8200 organiser some years back and was able to exchange much more
data with the Mac using that organiser, by cable link and Organiser Link
software ( IQ-793A ). Organiser Link III,unfortunately do not permit
exchange of information from IC cards to the Mac.
Hope this may be of help.
Dr. Wan N. A. Mustafa Voice : 60-7-3323828
Johor Baru, Malaysia. Fax : 60-7-3313828
e-mail : wannam@ pc.jaring.my
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:40:35 -0400
From: Tim McCleary
Subject: Monitor flickering??
[I don't know if this message got through before, so I apologize if this
appears twice...]
Hello all!
I've been having problems with using a monitor with my Performa 600CD. Most
times when I use it, the monitor flickers at an annoying rate. I've tried
taking both the computer and monitor into an Authorized Apple Dealer, and
they were stumped. Calling Apple's Support Hotline turned up no real
answers either. They suggested that the flickering is probably caused by
interference of some sort. I tried moving the computer and monitor to a
different location (several in fact) to no avail.
If I attach the monitor to my Performa 6200CD or PowerBook 165, it works
without a hitch...not a sign of flickering. However, no matter which
computer I connect it to, the image is on a slight angle.
What I'd like to know is what is causing this flickering problem and can it
harm my monitor in any way? It is obviously caused by my Performa 600CD,
but what? (It is a stock P600CD, with 160mb HD, memory upgraded to 8mb.)
Also, is there any way to adjust the angle at which the image is displayed?
I remember reading how to fix this sort of problem on other types of
monitors...
Any light that can be shed on this annoying problem would be appreciated!
Tim McCleary
([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:10:01 -0400
From: [email protected] (Eric Peloquin)
Subject: Open Doc's Stationery Folder
Hi all,
I have installed, on my PowerMac 6100, Open Doc 1.0.4. The Installer put a
folder called "Stationery" on the root level of my start up hard drive. My
question is : can I move it anywhere I want to in my hard drive folders?
If so, do I have to do something special with the "Editor setup" control
panel?
Thanks in advance everyone.
Eric Peloquin
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 20:19:18 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom"
Subject: OSCAR (C)
On Tue, 23 Jul, Ben Magbanua wrote
>>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.
>
>You can find The Grouch and other (insert adjective here) Mac tricks at El
>Grande Mac Hacks Page .
Oh well done, Ben. The Muppet Masters who objected to Oscar in the first
place will now threaten that site's owner with legal action, too.
There is a rule of thumb when dealing with copyright infringement issues.
Don't say in public where that copyright is being infringed.
Now if I were to be a copyright infringer, not that I would be, I'd tell
the person privately that I had a copy of The Grouch and offer to send it
to him or her. Or I would tell him or her -- again privately -- where to
find it.
A word to the wise should be sufficient.
Al Bloom
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:57:05 -0600
From: "Mark J. Miller"
Subject: Performa 550 enablers
I'm looking for info about the enablers for the Performa 550. Were any
updates
issued? I checked Apple Support. After updating to System 7.5.0 the enablers
stayed at 7.1p. Does the upgrade to 7.5.0 or update 2.0 replace any functions
the enablers used to handle?
Thanks, Mark Miller
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:39:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kelvin Edmison"
Subject: PowerMac 7100/66AV sound input problems
I have a 7100/66A (System 7.5.3) with an AudioVision 14 monitor.
For the life of me, I can't seem to record the audio from a VCR.
I have the RCA-plug-to-mini-stereo adaptor, but any attempt I make
to record using this fails. However, I can plug in my PlainTalk
microphone into the same sound in port and record my voice with it
just fine. I'm starting to think that there may be some motherboard
problems or stereo in connector problems.
Does anyone know what is happening and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Kelvin Edmison
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:37:47 -0400
From: [email protected] (Anthony Krusinckas)
Subject: Re-Oscar
>
>------------------------------
>Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:57:21 +0000
>From: Keith M Sedor
>Subject: OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>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 : )
>
I am not sure if it is still there, but I found my Oscar on a Mac
Hacking page which I happened upon through Yahoo going under personel
computers.
I hope this helps
Anthony
------------------------------
Date: 24 Jul 1996 12:12:06 -0600
From: "WJ Shack"
Subject: Re- Subject- Spell-checker
>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?
I have long used Thunder 7 which is a universal spell checker for Mac programs
(and provided "autotext" long before Word 6 along with a number of other
features). Now reborn as SpellCatcher from Casady & Greene.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:04:08 -0700
From: [email protected] (Space Case)
Subject: Stuffit Expander - "I/O Error bad media"
On Jul 23, [email protected] wrote:
>Aladdin tech support responded very promptly with the following:
>>
>> 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.
I have a 1.7GB disk, divided up into 256MB partitions. It was formatted
with a recent version of Hard Disk Toolkit PE. I'm running MacOS 7.5.3.
I had been having troubles copying files from one partition to another,
frequently causing system crashes. (Just from copying files!)
I had an idea, and disabled the HDT Extension. No more crashes.
Just another data point...
~Steve
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:22:23 -0700
From: DJ Sherman
Subject: System Auto-Death
>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. ... the whole thing just shut off.
Here's a guess from a non-engineer, just a user who had and solved a
similar problem on a PowerMac 7100AV.
When a Mac is shut down by having it's power suddenly yanked it doesn't
have a chance to do the diagnostics, checks and balances, etc., whatever,
it does when properly shut down from the Special menu or the
Control-Command-On/Off Switch key stroke combo. This seems to scramble the
SCSI in such a way that only such diagnostics as Apple Disk First Aid,
Norton Disk Doctor, Symantec Mac Tools, etc. (sometimes all of them) are
needed to repair.
Sometimes even they aren't enough and it becomes necessary to back up and
reformat your startup drive.
As usual, first steps would be re-boot (of course), re-boot with extensions
disabled, re-build the desktop, zap the PRAM, then, if needed, the
diagnostics, followed, if needed, by the re-installation of System
Software, and, as a last resort, backup and reformat the boot drive.
Is it possible you or a child, a pet, or an angry poltergeist could have
inadvertently disconnected the power to your Mac, either by hitting the off
button on the back of the box, or by yanking the cord? How about a power
company interrupt? Obviously, a fraction of a second could do it. Your
reference to "a very hot day" makes me suspect the latter. Were you
running air conditioning? Do you have self-resetting breakers?
As I said, I'm anything but an engineer, just a Mac user, so if the above
is obvious, mundane, or otherwise useless, please forgive the waste of
bandwidth.
- Don Sherman
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:10:38 EDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Textures printing problem
I have found the following problem trying to print Latex output from Textures
with an HP Deskwriter (either the original or the newer 660C). In a file with
material in math mode, at the point where the text switches from math mode to
ordinary text, the printer inserts a spurious lower case Greek letter psi. The
letter agrees in size and in whether it is on the line or sub/superscripted
with the last character of the math mode text. I have tried versions 3, 4, and
6 of the HP printer driver to no avail. Has anyone else come across this
problem and maybe solved it? The problem does not occur when I print to a
postscript laser printer.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:08:06 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul [not "Brian"] Brians)
Subject: Warning: be careful in upgrading SpeedDoubler
I just did something stupid. I intended to run the new SpeedDoubler updater
but absent mindedly reinstalled a new copy of SD over my installed one from
the floppy disk by accident. I shrugged when I realized what I had done and
went ahead with the upgrade (the reason the SD install disk was in the
drive was that I was anticipating the updater's need to write to it, but in
fact it ejected the disk first and then asked me to reinsert it). Yes I had
started up with extensions and virus detection off. I didn't look to see
whether I had created two copies of SD on my hard disk. The install disk
had itself been updated previously.
When I restarted the first thing that happened was that the Finder informed
me that my RAM disk was not a Macintosh disk, would I like to eject or
initialize it? I "initialized it." I decided this was weird and that I'd
better reboot with extensions off again. This time I got almost to the
Finder, menubar displayed but not yet accessible, and got warnings that
there was not enough RAM to mount any of my disks or display the Finder,
though I have 49 megs installed. Yes, I have RAM Doubler, but remember, it
was not running, because I had restarted with the shift key held down. Two
more tries led to the same result. I tried starting up from the system CD
holding down the S key--twice--but it didn't work. The Mac continued to try
to start up from the damaged internal disk. I could have tried other
things, but I was running out of time and the machine is still under
warranty, so I took it to the shop, where it was headed for a card
installation.
I'm running System 7.4.3 on a Performa 6214CD.
I'm not sure it was my botched update attempt that caused the problem, but
just in case, look before you click!
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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