Info-Mac Digest V14 #177
Posted: August 3rd, 1996, 4:00 am
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 96 09:26:06 PDT
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 3 Aug 96 Volume 14 : Issue 177
Today's Topics:
[*] BulkRate FAQ (English)
[*] BulkRate FAQ (German)
[*] ClipSpeaker v1.0
[*] Fonts Manager(tm) 3.5.1
[*] HVS Color Reduction Demo, Photoshop plugin v1.2.7
[*] Keep Out! 1.0
[*] Monkey Wrench Gang
[*] My Portfolio Manager 1.70
[*] QuizMaker 1.1 FAT for Macintosh
(no subject)
[A] FreePPP
[A] Game of Life
[A] Internet on a Mac Classic?
[A] Looking For PPP Timer/Connect
[Q] More Then 2 Serial Ports (2 msgs)
Apple's Post Card
Apple 17-inch Multiple Scan Monitor
Apple free gifts
Apple Video Player
Apple Video Player-sorted
Apple workgroup servers
Barcode reader needed!!!
Can I use the ZIP drive packaged for IBM?
Connecting Networks w/ ARA
Eudora mailboxes
Free Gifts from Apple?
FreePPP
GeoPort
Gifts to Macintosh purchasers.
HP Deskwriter 550C background printing: disk thrashing
HP DeskWriter cartridge ink REFILLS
Imagewriter II sheet feeder help needed
Info-Mac Digest V14 #176
Internet on a Mac Classic?
internet on classic(a)
Long-wondered Mac mysteries
Lost PPP Connection
MacTCP prefs switcher program for Open Tranport 1.1 (q)
Mklinux
MS Word 6.0 is faster if you...
netscape and ram
Newbie questions
request for information
Searching the archives
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:13 -0500
From: (Horst Prillinger)[email protected]
Subject: [*] BulkRate FAQ (English)
Here is the new English version of the Frequently Asked Questions document
for BulkRate, the offline reader for FirstClass BBSs.
This is version 2.5e; please delete all previous versions from your archives.
Visit the BulkRate FAQ website at
If you want to receive the newest version of this FAQ automatically as well
as get update information on the BulkRate application, join the BulkRate
mailing list. For information on the list, send an email with the subject
"please-send-maillist-info" to .
Regards,
-Horst
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/bulk-rate-faq-25e.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:12 -0500
From: (Horst Prillinger)[email protected]
Subject: [*] BulkRate FAQ (German)
Here is the new German version of the Frequently Asked Questions document
for BulkRate, the offline reader for FirstClass BBSs.
This is version 2.5e; please delete all previous versions from your archives.
Visit the BulkRate FAQ website at
If you want to receive the newest version of this FAQ automatically as well
as get update information on the BulkRate application, join the BulkRate
mailing list. For information on the list, send an email with the subject
"please-send-maillist-info" to .
Regards,
-Horst
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/bulk-rate-faq-25e-de.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:26:18 -0500
From: (Casey Fleser)[email protected]
Subject: [*] ClipSpeaker v1.0
ClipSpeaker speaks highlited text or text that is on your clipboard when
you press a customizable key combination. ClipSpeaker can speak at normal
or a slower speeds on demand. ClipSpeaker is an FKEY, not an extension,
which means it doesn't patch anything, or add clutter to your extensions
folder.
System Requirements: Any Macintosh running System 7.1 or later.
Cost: ClipSpeaker is shareware US$5.
mailto:[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/clip-speaker-10.hqx; 90K]
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:05:42 -0500
From: (Ed Hopkins)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Fonts Manager(tm) 3.5.1
=46onts Manager(tm) is functionally similar to the System 7.5.x Extensions
Manager, but it is NOT a control panel. It is more like a Desk Accessory.
It allows the enabling and disabling of font suitcases and printer fonts in
'Sets'. It supports Balloon help and a Topical Help system. Unlike other
utilities, such as Suitcase(tm) and Master Juggler(tm), it works on ALL
Macs with System 7.1 or later, including 7.5.3, without modifying the
NORMAL startup and operation of your computer. Thousands worldwide running
all kinds of Macs have switched to Fonts Manager to get 'Up & Running'.
NEW in 3.5.1:
- fixed two minor bugs when saving sets
Available @
,
,
AOL (Computing/Software Libraries/Desktop Publishing or Software Search).
Shareware fee is $10 for Fonts Manager (FREE to registered users of ALL
earlier versions). $More for the Mac OS 8 version when available (save
time/hassle - pay now). Site licenses available at SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED
PRICES. Inquire within...
=46or more information, please read the Fonts Manager(tm) Read Me file
enclosed, or visit my
Web page:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1870/
Thanks,
Ed Hopkins
=C6d*vantage
[email protected]
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/fonts-manager-351.hqx; 156K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:26:17 -0500
From: (John A Friedman)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HVS Color Reduction Demo, Photoshop plugin v1.2.7
HVS Color i a demo version of a plugin for Photoshop 3.0 that uses a
psychovisual algorithm to provide extremely high quality color reduction
for 24-bit images. HVS Color is capable of producing 8-bit images that are
visually identical to the 24-bit original. Because images look good even at
low color depths, this is an excellent tool for web image developers. GIF
files generated from HVS Color images tend to be 10% to 40% smaller than
conventionally reduced images because HVS Color doesn't use dithering. The
plug-in offers control over parameters such as gamma, weighting, emphasis,
number of colors, and thresholding. Version 1.2.7 eliminates automatic
image cropping and restrictions on the number of uses.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/pshp/hvs-color-demo-127.hqx; 123K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:15 -0500
From: (Stuart Snaddon)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Keep Out! 1.0
- Provides a simple, user-friendly login system for your mac.
Self-installing, and uses no CPU-time after startup, no extensions or inits
either. Fairly secure, can't override without disk-tools.
Stuart Snaddon
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/keep-out-10.hqx; 72K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:14 -0500
From: (Conrad Weiler)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Monkey Wrench Gang
Hayduke lives! The Monkey Wrench Gang is back. Hypercard highlights
of this dynamic quartet.
Best,
Conrad
--
Tidewater, Oregon
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/book/monkey-wrench-gang.hqx; 228K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:11 -0500
From: (Michael Roberts)[email protected]
Subject: [*] My Portfolio Manager 1.70
The following is a binhexed, stuffed file (BinHex 4.0, StuffIt Lite 3.5)
containing the file "My Portfolio Manager", an application for Microsoft
Excel 4.0 or higher, for managing equity investments.
This application ought to run just fine under System 6.0.x and System 7.x,
and requires version 4.0 or later of Microsoft Excel.
It will allow the user to keep many portfolios of stocks, bonds, mutual
funds, etc., quickly and easily make trades in these instruments, and keep
track of how well you are doing in all of them.
There is an on-line tutorial, and plenty of help to get the user started.
You can even customize help to suit your individual needs if you like.
This release replaces all previous uploaded versions of Mark's Portfolio
Manager (1.2, 1.21, 1.51, 1.55), and My Portfolio Manager 1.61, fixes some
minor bugs, improves on some of the existing features, and adds a few new
ones.
If anyone has any questions about this upload, we can be reached (for now,
at least
) on the Internet at: [email protected]
Thanks very much, and we hope that you find this program useful.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/my-portfolio-manager-170.hqx; 115K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:16 -0500
From: (Francois Yang)[email protected]
Subject: [*] QuizMaker 1.1 FAT for Macintosh
QuizMaker is a "quiz-processor" especially useful for teachers, to create
and format multiple question and short answer quizzes.
This new version is accelerated for PowerMacintosh, but is fully working on
a 680x0 machine.
Francois Yang
E-mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/quiz-maker-11-fat.hqx; 1537K]
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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 96 19:55:15 0000
From: tim
Subject: (no subject)
I can not believe how ling I have been on here. All I need is the "FAX
CONTROLLER" program for my pb520. I was removing it as part of the
MacComCenter program because I could not get any faster than 2400 baud
for outbound faxes.
The company sent me a new disk because my program showed damaged. Guess
what? the new program (and old since I re-installed it) does not have
the FAX CONTROLLER. I do not have the disk anymore, unbelievable.
Can you help me??????????????????
Tim
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 07:58:27 +0200
From: [email protected] (Andreas C. Bauer)
Subject: [A] FreePPP
[email protected] wrote:
I'm a customer of Earthlink and they use the FreePPP / ConfigPPP software
for hooking up to the internet. What I'm trying to do is have my
powerbook
wake up everyday at a certain time, log into my Earthlink account by
activating the FreePPP connection, and then having Emailer grab my mail.
Everything's easy:
1) the powerbook will wake up by itself
2) Emailer can get mail when you tell it to
3) the powerbook will go to sleep by itself
The problem is getting FreePPP to log in.
Anyone out there have any cool ideas? I tried AppleScript but it didn't
seem to be able to communicate with it (not that I'm very knowledgable
about AppleScript.)
Michael,
try using PPPop on top of FreePPP!
Contrary to FreePPP's readme file, the recent version of PPPop _does_ work
with FreePPP.
Now, PPPop can launch and close PPP connections and is fully
AppleScript-able, which is what you might need.
Bear with me, I'm not using AppleScript, but you can define a script that
opens PPPop first, starts a connection, then opens Emailer and gets your
mail. Same in reverse once your e-mails have been downloaded.
There are AppleScript launchers around (small utilities) that start a
specific AppleScript at a specific time. I guess you would need one of
those too.
Another approach:
PPPop also offers to auto-start a connection and auto-launch specific
applications/files/AppleScripts once it is started itself. By that you can
have PPPop auto-establish a connection and launch Emailer without the need
to do any AppleScript-ing on your side. All you would need is another
utility that starts up PPPop at a certain time the rest would be done by
PPPop itself (it can auto-close the PPP connection and/or Emailer after a
user-defined timer interval).
PPPop is available via FTP on Info-Mac or check out Rob Friefeld's web page
at:
http://users.deltanet.com/~friefeld
Hope this helps,
Andy
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:31:26 -0700
From: kee nethery
Subject: [A] Game of Life
>Can anybody point me, where can I find The Game of Life for Macintosh. It's
>old life simulation game.I have version for PC, but I have no PC.
If you want to get a life look here.
http://www.kagi.com/authors/akt/lifelab.html
Kee Nethery
Kagi
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 03:07:05 -0700
From: kee nethery
Subject: [A] Internet on a Mac Classic?
>Internet on a Mac Classic?
I use my Mac Classic as a QuickCam web server. It serves up my QuickCam
images round the clock. Yes a Classic can survive quite nicely as an
internet device, mine's a server.
Kee Nethery
Kagi
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 07:30:01 +0200
From: [email protected] (Andreas C. Bauer)
Subject: [A] Looking For PPP Timer/Connect
You wrote:
> Subject: [Q] Looking For PPP Timer/Connect
>
> Is there a PPP timer that is an app that will start timing connections as
> soon as they are established? (also from withing the program) And it would
> be usefull if it required a password to reset the timer. (not required
> though)
>
> Note: The program must not time connections that are established by the
> config ppp panel i.e. by an extension. Only time connections established
> within itself.
Andrew,
I use PPPop by Rob Friefeld. It's a small application (uses about 200-250K
of RAM) that displays just a single button (two sizes available: 32x32
pixel or 25x16) which toggles your PPP connection.
It also offers to display another even smaller window beneath it, that
displays either of three timers:
- total time (resests itself on a specific day of the month if you like to)
- session time (time of active/last PPP connection)
- daily time (total of all of today's PPP connections)
Both the button window and the timer window can be positioned freely and
independent of each other on your screen.
PPPop also has a "Launcher", where you can define specific applications,
files and AppleScripts that launch right out of PPPop. You can even define
a hotkey for launching those items. Effectively when hitting one of your
defined hotkeys, PPPop would first open a PPP connection then launch the
assigned application. But there are some interesting options for
fine-tuneing:
Regarding your note:
PPPop does time _all_ PPP connections _while_running_ - regardless if you
open the connection via PPPop's button or via the MacTCP, FreePPP or other
control panel. However, it does _not_ time anything if it is not running.
Now for the fine-tuning part: PPPop also offers to "auto-launch" Launcher
items you defined as soon as it opens and/or closes a PPP connection. And
also PPPop offers to do this as soon as you start PPPop itself. So to get
what you want, you would define an application (or more) to auto-launch as
soon as PPPop is opened and launch an AppleScript that closes PPPop as soon
as this connection is closed.
Effectively each time you double-click on PPPop's icon PPPop's timer is
started and then your appication(s) and as soon as you close the connection
via PPPop's button, your application is closed and then PPPop itself. That
way you only time your PPP connections while launching them via double
clicking on PPPop's icon. Any other way of establishing a PPP connection
will not cause the timer to update.
PPPop is available via FTP on Info-Mac or check out Rob Friefeld's web page
at:
http://users.deltanet.com/~friefeld
Check it out, I like it a lot. Better than all the other timers around.
Hope this helps,
Andy
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:12:34 -0400
From: [email protected] (Barry Kirsch)
Subject: [Q] More Then 2 Serial Ports
Jason P. Torrey writes:
>Flipping through the magazines and catalogs, I see Port Juggler 4x and
>PortShare Pro. Does anybody have any comments on these products or some
>other one in mind?
DO NOT BUY Port Juggler 4x ! I bought one for my 9500 clone and it does
not work. I was going to send it back to the mail-order company that I
bought it from but the manufacturer promised me that they would send me a
software fix but the never did. I have sent many emails to them since then
and they never gave me a response. That's $100 down the drain. Anyone
wanna buy one from me...never used!
Barry Kirsch
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 96 22:47:31 -0400
From: Doc Walker
Subject: [Q] More Then 2 Serial Ports
>I am looking for some hardware and software that will allow me to connect
>more than two devices to my serial ports...i.e. modem, printer, newton,
>digital camera, etc.
>From MacWay Digest 333:
>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:34:52 -0400
>From: [email protected]
>Subject: $$--MegaWolf Special Offer
>Message-ID:
>
>This special offer is from:
>
> (ward mcfarland)
>
>MegaWolf, Inc., specialists in PCI serial expansion solutions for the
>Macintosh, is pleased to offer a special deal plus two contests for
>EvangeListas. To celebrate the release of Rufus - our 8 port, high speed
>PCI Serial Card scheduled for August 15, we are offering an early bird
>special - purchase Rufus before 8/10/96 and save $150 off the retail
>price of $695. Thats right, eight additional serial ports for only $545!
>In addition, be one of the first 50 people to correctly guess the reason
>for the cards name and you will save an additional $50 for a total cost
>of only $495!! Make sure to mention the EvangeList to be eligible for
>this special pricing.
>
>Rufus adds 8 "smart" serial ports, up to 460,800 baud per port, with
>standard RS-232 support. An on-board RISC processor and half a megabyte
>of on-board buffering ensures minimal loading of your Macintosh, while
>supporting very high serial data rates. The Power PC native drivers are
>all MacOS and Communication Toolbox compatible. Rufus is a perfect way to
>support any Mac BBS, multi-line fax or mail server, or to control
>multiple serial hardware devices. Rufus carries a 5 year hardware
>warranty, 1 year free software updates, a 6 week 'no-fault' return
>policy, and unlimited free technical support.
>
>The contests are open to all EvangeListas, whether MegaWolf customers or
>not. We need a name for our next two PCI serial expansion products.
>Contest One is to help us pick a name for the 4 port PCI serial card that
>we expect to start shipping by mid September. If you submit the name we
>select you will win one of the cards as soon as it is shipping! Contest
>Two is very similar, but is seeking a name for the modestly priced 2 port
>PCI Serial card that we plan for early October. Again, if you submit the
>name we select you will win one of the cards. Be sure to submit only one
>entry per email, with the subject field containing 'MegaWolf Name
>Contest'. All entries will be considered for both products, so you have
>two chances to win for each name you enter. In case of duplicate winning
>entries, the earliest submission will win.
>
>MegaWolf is a leader in Macintosh PCI serial expansion products, having
>released its Fenris line of expandable multiport PCI serial cards in the
>first quarter of 1996. MegaWolf is a Macintosh-only developer.
>
>MegaWolf may be reached via fax or voice at 203-562-1243, via email at
>[email protected] or via our WWW site at http://www.megawolf.com.
>
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> to see how you can help the cause.
HTH.
Doc
--
Doc Walker
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 00:33:45 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Apple's Post Card
Christian,
I also filled in the little post card that I receive in the box that came
with my Mac. (I actually did it about five times, for five different Mac's
that I've owned) In all cases I got what I wanted, which was a subscription
to MacWorld. My MacWorld magazine subscriptions currently does not end until
1998.
-- Vinko
Vinko Enterprises
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 17:48:57 -0500
From: [email protected] (Morethanone Kalar)
Subject: Apple 17-inch Multiple Scan Monitor
[email protected] (James Owens) wrote:
> I have an Apple 17-inch Multiple Scan monitor. The image on the screen
> measures about 14.5 in. diagonally in either 832x624 or 1024X768
> resolution. The black mask measures nearly 16 in., and the plastic bezel
> measures 16.5 in.
Readers like me who don't have access to a big store full (or college
lab full) of monitors and who want to get the largest image for a given
screen size might consider the Sony Multiscan series.
We recently got a Multiscan15sx. This $420 Trinitron monitor has image
size, centering and shape controls on the front. They let you expand the
image to cover the full screen. Ours is used in 832x624 mode. The screen
is completely filled by the image. I just measured the image at a hair
under 14" (35 cm) diagonal.
So what does the "15" in 15sx mean? Nothing meaningful. By any non-BS
measure of utility, the 15sx is a 14" monitor. What will it take to stop
this kind of misdirection by the industry?
Ignore what they tell you you're going to get. Or what you will get is
*naughtyword*. Do what Pythagoras or Leonardo would have done. Take a
ruler to the store.
-- Tony
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:05:49 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Apple free gifts
[email protected] (New Mysterian) wrote:
>*When I registered the purchase of both my CPU and my PB, I filled out the
>little card that asks you to select your "free gift" and chose a mouse pad
>(both times), but have yet to see either. Has anybody else been skunked?
>Who should/could I contact (preferably via E-Mail) about this?
... and [email protected] (Christian Parent) replied:
>Well, just to complete or answer your question on the fact that you didn't
>receive anything as you filled up the card for that gift. Actually, I did
>the same and also never received anything. I asked for the Macworld mag and
>never ever received it or anything else for that matter. Starting to
>believe it's a small joke that Apple played on us. And if it's not, I would
>gladly see any results. Is there anybody else that got the same situation?
Several years ago when I bought an LC (or was it when I got the LCIII
upgrade?), I requested and received the free Apple mousepad. I think it
may have taken a few months, but I _did_ receive it.
(It's gotten kind of dirty and worn, though... I should send in my PM7200's
registration card soon so I can ask for a new mousepad.)
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 00:00:43 +0000
From: [email protected] (Ian Burt)
Subject: Apple Video Player
Hello Macpeople,
I was hoping to view the Olympics whilst working using Apple Video Player.
When I tried to open it I was given a dialog which read:
"AppleVideoPlayer requires the Video Startup Extension to be installed.
Make sure it has been installed in the Extensions Folder and that your
computer has been restarted."
Now the extension is in the Extension Folder already, so I turn to Norton
Utilities to help out. It gives me some advice about bad creation date
should I fix it? So I said OK and finished the scan, rebooted and tried
again. Same dialog
Then I rebuilt the desktop and zapped the PRAM, clutching at straws by now.
No good. I ran Norton again, sometimes it can help, not this time.
So is there anyone out there who can steer me in the right direction? I
don't want to have to do a re-install of my System Folder as it has been
done recently when I moved up to OS 7.5.3. I have a Performa 630 which
installs from CDROM and you have little control over being selective about
what you install, unless someone can tell me which of the disk copy files
contains the Video Startup init?
Any advice really needs to be emailed, not only to save the bandwidth but
to get me viewing asap
TIA
Ian Burt
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Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 00:56:26 +0000
From: [email protected] (Ian Burt)
Subject: Apple Video Player-sorted
Hello Mac fellows,
a few days ago I posted a plea for help in getting Apple Video Player to
launch. I haven't seen it in the list yet, but to stop people wasting
bandwidth and time , it seems the right thing to do is to say - please
don't bother, the problem has been resolved by a long and tedious process
of elimination of start up items. I am not going to name names as what gave
me problems will probably not bother anyone else. If anybody *does* email
me, thanks, I will reply in time.
All the best,
Ian Burt
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 14:37:32 +1000
From: "G. Paul Savage"
Subject: Apple workgroup servers
Can anyone tell me what the advantages are of using an Apple workgroup
server on a network compared to using, say, a PPC 8500 with a couple of big
drives? We are trying to resist using a Novell network (shudder) but the
workgroup servers are generally more expensive than the corresponding
desktop machine. Why is this so and what extra do you get? The network will
serve about 50-70 Macs.
Paul
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 16:09:55 +0800 (HKT)
From: [email protected] (Victor Tobias)
Subject: Barcode reader needed!!!
>Does anyone know where I could find a decent bacode reader for a
Macintosh?
>I am particularly interested in a portable, hand-held, gun-like
scanner of
>some sort. Any information that would help my search would be greatly
Check out Bear Rock Technologies at [email protected] or 800-232-7625
Recommended.
V.T.
Manila, Philippines
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:28:05 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Can I use the ZIP drive packaged for IBM?
>My local London Drugs computer store in Nanaimo BC, which alas sells
>no Mac stuff, has a great sale on Zip drives both the original Iomega and
>the Epson brand the latter selling for $289 Cdn. or about $200 US$.
>
>Both however are packaged with installation s/w and cords for those
>other platforms. If I bought one of these can I easily & cheaply get
>the right Mac stuff for them?
The Iomega ZIP drive is sold in two versions: SCSI and Parallel. The SCSI
version will work on both PCs (with a SCSI card) and Macs, and it comes
with software for both DOS and Macs. I'm sure the same thing applies to
the Epson version, but read the box to make sure.
You might find it cheaper to order from MacWarehouse Canada,
1-800-268-7805. Their price is $299 Cdn, but you won't have to pay
provincial sales tax and shipping is only $10 for orders under 15 pounds.
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:45:33 -0700
From: Aaron Peckham
Subject: Connecting Networks w/ ARA
Hello!
I'm using Apple Remote Access 2.1 to remotely contact a collection of three
machines across town. It works fine with one-to-many, but I would like to
do a many-to-many transmission (all the macs on my network able to connect
to all the macs on the other network).
Here's the best graphical representation I can do:
a b c d
| | | |
|------------------------
|
ARA
|
|----------------
| | |
x y z
I would like B to connect to Z, D to Y, C to X, etc.
How can I do this, using ARA?
Thanks!
Aaron Peckham
--
Aaron Peckham
http://www.ns.net/~peckham/
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 19:42:31 -0500
From: Joe Hanson
Subject: Eudora mailboxes
I'm using Eudora 3.0. When I receive an Info-Mac update it arrives as a
cover page plus an attachment.
The attachment contains the individual Info-Mac notices. After I read and
delete those notices, I then usually trash the cover sheet.
That's when I encounter this anomaly, Even though I've trashed everything
related to the update, Eudora has set up the each individual Info-Mac
update as a separate Mailbox.
In order to get rid of them I have to open the Mailbox window in Settings
menu r and individually remove each one. It's not a big deal but I figure
that I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?
Educational Media, LLC
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 7:09:04 -0400
From: "Violette, John"
Subject: Free Gifts from Apple?
I sent my card in to Apple and didn't get anything either. I too asked
for the MacWorld magazine and never got it.
John
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 96 10:23:39 -0500
From: chaz
Subject: FreePPP
> The problem is getting FreePPP to log in.
>
> Anyone out there have any cool ideas?
THere should be an "Allow applications to open connections" [or something
like that] checkbox in FreePPP Setup or ConfigPPP [whichever one you
have].
Make sure that's checked, and when then when any application attempts to
open a TCP connection [as Eudora does], FreePPP will dial and connect for
you.
chazl
08.02.96
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 00:29:26 +0000
From: jason hoffman
Subject: GeoPort
is there any software that will help my geoport telecom adapter run
any faster? like so many others, i too have hoped for the much
delayed release of an update.
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:23:40 -0400
From: "Robert A. McIvor"
Subject: Gifts to Macintosh purchasers.
To give the experience of two purchasers, A Performa 600 (requested
mouse pad, got nothing), a Quadra 660AV (requested mouse pad, got mouse
pad), a Performa 5100CD (requested MacWorld, got nothing) and a PowerMac
7500 (requested MacWorld, am receiving MacWorld). I don't remember if the
offer was available when the SE-30 was in production, but if so, nothing
was received. Score seems to be 50%.
Best wishes
Bob McIvor
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:34:21 +0000
From: Rex Godby
Subject: HP Deskwriter 550C background printing: disk thrashing
(I posted an earlier version of the following to comp.sys.mac.printing
and, despite 3 sympathetic replies, received no solution consistent with
the use of virtual memory. So I'm trying the Digest.)
I'm getting pretty fed up with the long delays in printing in the
background on my HP Deskwriter 550C on a Power Mac 6100 running virtual
memory. (Typical symptoms: machine locks up for 1-2 minutes, with
constant hard disk thrashing, when printing even a short document.)
I've seen this and similar symptoms mentioned several times in
newsgroups, but I've never seen a cure mentioned.
I was thinking about switching to QuickDraw GX for printing, if this
offers a cure to these problems. Can anyone who's tried it please say
whether it does?
Or another alternative: does HP background printing behave better if I
turn off virtual memory and install RAM Doubler?
Relevant current extension versions: HP Background 4.0.6 and DW 6.0.3
(which I believe to be up-to-date for the 550C).
--
Rex Godby Tel. (+44) (0)1904 432231
Department of Physics Fax (+44) (0)1904 432214
University of York E-mail [email protected]
York YO1 5DD, U.K. http://www.york.ac.uk/~rwg3/
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 13:34:55 PST
From: [email protected]
Subject: HP DeskWriter cartridge ink REFILLS
Dear Mac Friends,
I've been using Graphics Utilities ink refills for HP Deskwriter cartridge
#51626A for years very satisfactorily.
For some reason these are no longer available in this little paradise
on the West Coast (well we do have a wonderful summer...) so I was
wondering if any of you know a good eliable cheap source in USDA
or Canada where we can recharge our draining printer boxes?
Much obliged for any suggestions emailed to me or to [email protected]
Thanks friends,
Paul Thompson, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:38:56 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Imagewriter II sheet feeder help needed
Anyone know why the sheet feeder on my mint-condition Imagewriter II doesn't
work? Manual feeding works fine, but sheet feeder won't take up paper: seems
dead.
Thanks in advance,
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:03:55 -0600
From: [email protected] (Neil Fiertel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #176
Regarding not receiving the magazine subscription promised after
registering my Mac...hey, did anyone ever get it? Not I...and I did not
appreciate it and am considering a Power Computing Clone for my next unit
in payment...true.
Anyone listening at Apple? Maybe now they are but I am still
waiting for answers... hint hint. Neil Fiertel
Just three strands of rusty barbed wire from the North Pole...
------------------------------
Date: 2 Aug 1996 18:17:09 +0200
From: [email protected] (Tobias Kuipers)
Subject: Internet on a Mac Classic?
[email protected] writes:
>I have been asked by a prospective client is they can acces the 'net via
>their Mac Classic (running system 6.17 or 6.07?)
Sure. I've been running SLIP for a couple of years on a Classic.
Make sure the Classic has 4 Mb, set it up with sys 7.0 (free), and
you're ready. I'm afraid most SLIP/PPP applications won't work under sys
6.x, but that's just a guess.
Netscape doesn't work without Color QuickDraw, but last time I checked
(about 8 months ago) other browsers (MacWeb, Mosaic etc) do. Eudora
works just fine without color, as does Fetch, NewsWatcher, and so on.
this enough info?
cheers,
Tobias
--
URL : http://adam.fwi.uva.nl/~kuipers/index.html
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 21:47:14 -0500
From: Michael Sullivan
Subject: internet on classic(a)
mac tcp 2.04/2.06 both work fine on classic. Eudora, telnet etc also ok.
netscape may work, but the figures will look awful because of dithering
to provide pseudo-gray-scale from monochrome monitor. older mac plus
vintage machines will also work, but will NOT support netscape because
of problems in the old mac-plus roms (includes pb100 as well....)
Mike
--
Mike Sullivan - [email protected]
http://kc2kj.k2nesoft.com:8080/Merchantville
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:21:14 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Long-wondered Mac mysteries
[email protected] (New Mysterian) wrote:
>Just for curiosity's sake, which ULTIMATELY came first - the Mac OS or
>Winblows? I've always gone around saying iBM copied Mac, but I'd like to
>know I'm firmly based in truth rather than relying on half-fuzzy
>quasi-recollections.
The Mac came first, in 1984.
Apple got the basic ideas for a graphical interface from work done at Xerox
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), but refined it a lot and released the
Apple Lisa in 1983. The first Mac was released in 1984, borrowing heavily
>From the Lisa but with further refinement.
According to Byte magazine, Feb. 1994, many features that are now common on
PCs were first introduced on Macintosh computers:
- Cut and Paste
- Undo
- Point-and-Click menu selection
- API (Application Programming Interface) (though Apple didn't call it that)
- Built-in networking capability
- Plug-and-play philosphy
- Dynamic memory allocation
- Hypertext
- 24-bit color capability
I don't recall when Microsquash released Windows 1.0, but it was definitely
after the Mac, and it was pretty lousy. They finally improved it enough
with version 3.0 that it started to become popular.
Incidentally, MS-DOS (first called PC-DOS) was an imitation, too. They
copied much of the design from an older operating system, called CP/M,
which ran on a variety of different microcomputers. Even the disk
directory structure and the operating system calls were nearly identical to
those of CP/M.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:12:17 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Lost PPP Connection
[email protected] (Wendy Weiner) wrote:
>My PPP connection seems to hang up for no reason. I was just reading my
>email and heard a click. The PPP screen still said "up" but I checked the
>phone line, and there was the dial tone. What's going on?
Since PPP says it's still connected, it's not PPP that hung up. The modems
either hung up or lost the connection, but the PPP software doesn't
recognize right away that this has happened. You can force PPP to
recognize that the connection is lost by telling it to close the connection.
As for why the connection was lost, there are several possibilities.
The most likely cause is noise on the phone line, which would interfere
with the modems' ability to talk to each other and cause them to hang up.
Noise on the lines can be due to problems with the telephone system, the
telephone wiring in your house, or somebody picking up a phone on the same
line elsewhere in the house.
A less likely cause is a power outage or computer crash at your Internet
Service Provider.
Another possibility is that your ISP had to take the system offline in
order to do some maintenance.
Finally, some ISPs set a login time limit which cuts you off after you've
been online for a certain amount of time.
If you find that you can log in again right away, then it was either line
noise or a per-call time limit.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:44:57 -0700
From: "David L. Hirschberg"
Subject: MacTCP prefs switcher program for Open Tranport 1.1 (q)
Is there a program like MacTCP prefs switcher that works with open transport?
Depending where I am I use ethernet, appletalk or a ricochet modem to
connect my powerbook to the net.
At present I have to do a multistep process that involves loading the
correct config file under the Appletalk control panel (ethernet or
modem/printer port) and then loading the correct config file for the TCP/IP
control panel (ricochet, ethernet, or appletalk). Is there a program or
applescript that can do this for me?
The one limitation I had with MacTCP pref switcher using classic appletalk
was that it only swapped out the tcpprefs file and did not change the
network control panel (ethernet and appletalk).
If anyone out there has a suggestion I would love to hear from you.
Thank you,
David
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 00:12:29 -0400
From: [email protected] (Patrick Hoepfner)
Subject: Mklinux
> Is it true that the current version of Mklinux for the PowerMac only
> runs on machines with the 601 chip?
Yes. In particular the early PowerMac 6100/7100/8100 machines with NuBus.
> Is it likely that this limitation will be true of the official release
> when it comes in the next couple of months?
I don't know but this is an effort that is funded by Apple and they don't
have loads of cash to throw around on things that don't make money. But
you have to suspect that porting it to the newer PowerMacs should be an
important move...
> Finally, is there a place where a potential user can get questions
> answered by people working on the project? Thanks.
You can go directly to the "source" to find out the answers:
There they say:
| Apple Computer is supporting a project with the Open Software Foundation
| Research Institute (OSF-RI) to port Linux, a freely distributed version
| of UNIX, to a variety of Power Macintosh products. This version of Linux,
| known as MkLinux, operates on the OSF-RI Mach (Mk) microkernel, running
| natively on the PowerPC microprocessor.
One of the problems that the Linux developers are having is that as the Mac
hardware matured much changed. And Apple did a beautiful job making the
changes invisible to the user.
Like the dashboard of a car, no matter what engine they put under the hood,
and regardless of the suspension you could still drive the car. This was
what Apple aimed for (and if you ask me they hit the nail on the head!).
But this makes the Linux developers job of building a single set of drivers
for all of the machines difficult. So they were starting with one set of
machines, and that was the 6100/7100/8100 (NuBus, PowerPC 601) machines.
NOTE: The Official Linux site is:
But I just tried it and it reported that no DNS entry was found. Maybe
they had the same problem that Microsoft's MSNBC server did... not paying
the $100 for their domain name...
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:47:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Luis Antonio Alvarado Flores)
Subject: MS Word 6.0 is faster if you...
I find some way to MS Word 6.0 start up faster, you must have only the
number of font that you are gona use...
that's mean... if you only are gona use 5 fonts on your document, try
quiting all the rest, this is because MS Word start up one by one font, and
if you have too much... is gonna take too much time...
So if you have Suitcase II try quiting all font and let only the system
fonts and then start up MS Word.
Once you have finished your work in MS Word, you can try opening the rest
of the fonts to your system.
I hope this help you!
If you have one suggestion, let me know please.
Luis Antonio Alvarado Flores
[email protected]
Zacatecas, Zac. Mexico
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 11:47:30 -0400
From: John Hachey
Subject: netscape and ram
Hello,
My netscape2.0.2 seems to hide about 8 Megs of ram
when I quit it, and the ram only reappears after I restart.
Any ideas how to get around this?
(centris 660av and system 7.5.3)
Thx, John
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:18:10 -0500
From: [email protected] (Finkelstein, Ben)
Subject: Newbie questions
Hi, all. I've just had my Performa 6300CD for a few months,
after spending years with DOS machines and a much-beloved
Atari 800XL. I think I'm starting to get the hang of things, but
I have three questions for the community.
1) On my PC I use MS-Kermit, a freeware comm package with a
very good VT100/102/220/320 emulator. Among its features is
support for the VT terminals' slaved printer port escape
codes, which permits a host system to direct appropriate data
to the printer attached to my PC. Neither Claris Works 4 nor
ZTerm seems to support this function--output that the host
tries to send to my printer simply scrolls across the screen.
What Mac terminal software has this functionality? (Actually,
MS-Kermit not only supports slaved printer output, but allows
me to redirect the slaved printer output to a file or other
device, so this is question really tests the proposition that
good Mac software exists to match any good DOS program.)
2) Does one need a disk defrag utility for the Mac, or does
System 7.5 take care of this itself? I have not seen reference to
a defragger in any of the archives on http://mirrors.apple.com.
I'd look on D.C. area BBS's if I knew of any, but I don't.
3) One of my most-relied upon DOS programs is a good thought
processor/outliner. I use MaxThink. I know that Symantec used
to sell a well-regarded outliner/presentation program for the
Mac called MORE (developed by the author of the pioneering
ThinkTank), and that there was once a Mac version of MaxThink,
but these programs now seem to be defunct. Any recommendations
or suggestions? (Don't mention Word and WordPerfect; their outlining
functions are geared towards formatting, not organization.)
Thanks for any help you can provide!
------------------------------
Date: 1 Aug 1996 23:40:24 GMT
From: Aat Stevens
Subject: request for information
Hello,
my name is Aat Stevens and Ime working as a project manager for
a Dutch firm specialized in ICT system management. Recently we
were asked to draw up an scenario to outsource the Apple based IT
infrastructure for one of the lager firms in the Dutch grafics
industry . All though we are specialized in managing Windows and
Novell based systems we definitely want to accommodate this
client.
So, Ime looking for information on system management in large
(50 units or more) Apple sites. Ime specially interested in the
following subjects:
- system management methods;
- examples of process oriented methods like ITIL (are there any
Apple sites that are managed with a process
oriented method ?);
- remote system management, which tools to use and are there any
sites who have build there remote
system management around SMS.
Who can get me started ?
Aat Stevens
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Koch
Subject: Searching the archives
Another option is http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu, where you can search
for names of archived titles.
Paul Koch
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:49:15 -0700
From: [email protected] (Wendy Weiner)
Subject: Where's my Fast-Find??
Hi--
I keep a Fast Find alias under the Apple window. It wouldn't open, so I
used Norton Disk Doctor and fixed all it said to do, then rebuilt the
desktop. My Fast Find returned. For about 2 times. This morning I tried
to access it, and I got the message, "unknown file quit because a type 3
error occurred." Any ideas? I have a Mac LC, System 7, 10 megs RAM with
500 on my hard drive.
Thanks.
------------------------------
Date: 2 Aug 1996 17:43:34 GMT
From: [email protected] (Bryan Walls)
Subject: Zip Drives
You could use the IBM Zip drive with your Mac, as long as you got the SCSI
version. You'd need to get hold of the tools separately, though you don't
have to have the software for the Zip to work just fine. It's just nice to
have.
On the other hand, that's not a great price. MacMall has the Epsom version
for about $130, after the rebate. Of course, you should be eligable for
Iomega's $50 rebate if you bought the local one (these prices all $US).
Make sure the rebate applies to you, though!
--
Bryan Walls My Words are not NASA policy.
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:53:33 -0500
From: "C. Posey"
Friday | 02.08.96 | 6:53 PM CST | -0500
Ref: 1:24 PM -0400 7/31/96, Andrew Murray
> Is there a PPP timer that is an app that will
> start timing connections as soon as they are
> established? (also from withing the program) And
> it would be usefull if it required a password to
> reset the timer. (not required though)
>
> Note: The program must not time connections that
> are established by the config ppp panel i.e. by
> an extension. Only time connections established
> within itself.
I have had GREAT results with PPPop and PPPremier Timer (both from
Info-Mac if I'm not mistaken). Both will watche for the actual
connection or termination. PPPop has more timing features and
PPPremier Timer is better looking and takes up less RAM. I have had
a lot of luck scripting both of them (although AE is best supported
in PPPop, it has never seemed to make a difference).
I would get them both and test drive each for a week and see which
feels right for you. I recently switched to PPPremier Timer because
my server has gone to unlimited online time and I no longer need the
various graduated timing modes, etc.
Cleve Posey
--------------------------------
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Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #177
To: info-mac-list
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--Info-Mac-Digest
Info-Mac Digest Sat, 3 Aug 96 Volume 14 : Issue 177
Today's Topics:
[*] BulkRate FAQ (English)
[*] BulkRate FAQ (German)
[*] ClipSpeaker v1.0
[*] Fonts Manager(tm) 3.5.1
[*] HVS Color Reduction Demo, Photoshop plugin v1.2.7
[*] Keep Out! 1.0
[*] Monkey Wrench Gang
[*] My Portfolio Manager 1.70
[*] QuizMaker 1.1 FAT for Macintosh
(no subject)
[A] FreePPP
[A] Game of Life
[A] Internet on a Mac Classic?
[A] Looking For PPP Timer/Connect
[Q] More Then 2 Serial Ports (2 msgs)
Apple's Post Card
Apple 17-inch Multiple Scan Monitor
Apple free gifts
Apple Video Player
Apple Video Player-sorted
Apple workgroup servers
Barcode reader needed!!!
Can I use the ZIP drive packaged for IBM?
Connecting Networks w/ ARA
Eudora mailboxes
Free Gifts from Apple?
FreePPP
GeoPort
Gifts to Macintosh purchasers.
HP Deskwriter 550C background printing: disk thrashing
HP DeskWriter cartridge ink REFILLS
Imagewriter II sheet feeder help needed
Info-Mac Digest V14 #176
Internet on a Mac Classic?
internet on classic(a)
Long-wondered Mac mysteries
Lost PPP Connection
MacTCP prefs switcher program for Open Tranport 1.1 (q)
Mklinux
MS Word 6.0 is faster if you...
netscape and ram
Newbie questions
request for information
Searching the archives
Where's my Fast-Find??
Zip Drives
The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of:
Gordon Watts, Liam Breck, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan
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/.
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:13 -0500
From: (Horst Prillinger)[email protected]
Subject: [*] BulkRate FAQ (English)
Here is the new English version of the Frequently Asked Questions document
for BulkRate, the offline reader for FirstClass BBSs.
This is version 2.5e; please delete all previous versions from your archives.
Visit the BulkRate FAQ website at
If you want to receive the newest version of this FAQ automatically as well
as get update information on the BulkRate application, join the BulkRate
mailing list. For information on the list, send an email with the subject
"please-send-maillist-info" to .
Regards,
-Horst
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/bulk-rate-faq-25e.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:12 -0500
From: (Horst Prillinger)[email protected]
Subject: [*] BulkRate FAQ (German)
Here is the new German version of the Frequently Asked Questions document
for BulkRate, the offline reader for FirstClass BBSs.
This is version 2.5e; please delete all previous versions from your archives.
Visit the BulkRate FAQ website at
If you want to receive the newest version of this FAQ automatically as well
as get update information on the BulkRate application, join the BulkRate
mailing list. For information on the list, send an email with the subject
"please-send-maillist-info" to .
Regards,
-Horst
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/bulk-rate-faq-25e-de.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:26:18 -0500
From: (Casey Fleser)[email protected]
Subject: [*] ClipSpeaker v1.0
ClipSpeaker speaks highlited text or text that is on your clipboard when
you press a customizable key combination. ClipSpeaker can speak at normal
or a slower speeds on demand. ClipSpeaker is an FKEY, not an extension,
which means it doesn't patch anything, or add clutter to your extensions
folder.
System Requirements: Any Macintosh running System 7.1 or later.
Cost: ClipSpeaker is shareware US$5.
mailto:[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/clip-speaker-10.hqx; 90K]
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:05:42 -0500
From: (Ed Hopkins)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Fonts Manager(tm) 3.5.1
=46onts Manager(tm) is functionally similar to the System 7.5.x Extensions
Manager, but it is NOT a control panel. It is more like a Desk Accessory.
It allows the enabling and disabling of font suitcases and printer fonts in
'Sets'. It supports Balloon help and a Topical Help system. Unlike other
utilities, such as Suitcase(tm) and Master Juggler(tm), it works on ALL
Macs with System 7.1 or later, including 7.5.3, without modifying the
NORMAL startup and operation of your computer. Thousands worldwide running
all kinds of Macs have switched to Fonts Manager to get 'Up & Running'.
NEW in 3.5.1:
- fixed two minor bugs when saving sets
Available @
,
,
AOL (Computing/Software Libraries/Desktop Publishing or Software Search).
Shareware fee is $10 for Fonts Manager (FREE to registered users of ALL
earlier versions). $More for the Mac OS 8 version when available (save
time/hassle - pay now). Site licenses available at SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED
PRICES. Inquire within...
=46or more information, please read the Fonts Manager(tm) Read Me file
enclosed, or visit my
Web page:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1870/
Thanks,
Ed Hopkins
=C6d*vantage
[email protected]
I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/fonts-manager-351.hqx; 156K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:26:17 -0500
From: (John A Friedman)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HVS Color Reduction Demo, Photoshop plugin v1.2.7
HVS Color i a demo version of a plugin for Photoshop 3.0 that uses a
psychovisual algorithm to provide extremely high quality color reduction
for 24-bit images. HVS Color is capable of producing 8-bit images that are
visually identical to the 24-bit original. Because images look good even at
low color depths, this is an excellent tool for web image developers. GIF
files generated from HVS Color images tend to be 10% to 40% smaller than
conventionally reduced images because HVS Color doesn't use dithering. The
plug-in offers control over parameters such as gamma, weighting, emphasis,
number of colors, and thresholding. Version 1.2.7 eliminates automatic
image cropping and restrictions on the number of uses.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/pshp/hvs-color-demo-127.hqx; 123K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:15 -0500
From: (Stuart Snaddon)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Keep Out! 1.0
- Provides a simple, user-friendly login system for your mac.
Self-installing, and uses no CPU-time after startup, no extensions or inits
either. Fairly secure, can't override without disk-tools.
Stuart Snaddon
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/keep-out-10.hqx; 72K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:14 -0500
From: (Conrad Weiler)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Monkey Wrench Gang
Hayduke lives! The Monkey Wrench Gang is back. Hypercard highlights
of this dynamic quartet.
Best,
Conrad
--
Tidewater, Oregon
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/book/monkey-wrench-gang.hqx; 228K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:11 -0500
From: (Michael Roberts)[email protected]
Subject: [*] My Portfolio Manager 1.70
The following is a binhexed, stuffed file (BinHex 4.0, StuffIt Lite 3.5)
containing the file "My Portfolio Manager", an application for Microsoft
Excel 4.0 or higher, for managing equity investments.
This application ought to run just fine under System 6.0.x and System 7.x,
and requires version 4.0 or later of Microsoft Excel.
It will allow the user to keep many portfolios of stocks, bonds, mutual
funds, etc., quickly and easily make trades in these instruments, and keep
track of how well you are doing in all of them.
There is an on-line tutorial, and plenty of help to get the user started.
You can even customize help to suit your individual needs if you like.
This release replaces all previous uploaded versions of Mark's Portfolio
Manager (1.2, 1.21, 1.51, 1.55), and My Portfolio Manager 1.61, fixes some
minor bugs, improves on some of the existing features, and adds a few new
ones.
If anyone has any questions about this upload, we can be reached (for now,
at least
) on the Internet at: [email protected]Thanks very much, and we hope that you find this program useful.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/my-portfolio-manager-170.hqx; 115K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:19:16 -0500
From: (Francois Yang)[email protected]
Subject: [*] QuizMaker 1.1 FAT for Macintosh
QuizMaker is a "quiz-processor" especially useful for teachers, to create
and format multiple question and short answer quizzes.
This new version is accelerated for PowerMacintosh, but is fully working on
a 680x0 machine.
Francois Yang
E-mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/quiz-maker-11-fat.hqx; 1537K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 96 19:55:15 0000
From: tim
Subject: (no subject)
I can not believe how ling I have been on here. All I need is the "FAX
CONTROLLER" program for my pb520. I was removing it as part of the
MacComCenter program because I could not get any faster than 2400 baud
for outbound faxes.
The company sent me a new disk because my program showed damaged. Guess
what? the new program (and old since I re-installed it) does not have
the FAX CONTROLLER. I do not have the disk anymore, unbelievable.
Can you help me??????????????????
Tim
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 07:58:27 +0200
From: [email protected] (Andreas C. Bauer)
Subject: [A] FreePPP
[email protected] wrote:
I'm a customer of Earthlink and they use the FreePPP / ConfigPPP software
for hooking up to the internet. What I'm trying to do is have my
powerbook
wake up everyday at a certain time, log into my Earthlink account by
activating the FreePPP connection, and then having Emailer grab my mail.
Everything's easy:
1) the powerbook will wake up by itself
2) Emailer can get mail when you tell it to
3) the powerbook will go to sleep by itself
The problem is getting FreePPP to log in.
Anyone out there have any cool ideas? I tried AppleScript but it didn't
seem to be able to communicate with it (not that I'm very knowledgable
about AppleScript.)
Michael,
try using PPPop on top of FreePPP!
Contrary to FreePPP's readme file, the recent version of PPPop _does_ work
with FreePPP.
Now, PPPop can launch and close PPP connections and is fully
AppleScript-able, which is what you might need.
Bear with me, I'm not using AppleScript, but you can define a script that
opens PPPop first, starts a connection, then opens Emailer and gets your
mail. Same in reverse once your e-mails have been downloaded.
There are AppleScript launchers around (small utilities) that start a
specific AppleScript at a specific time. I guess you would need one of
those too.
Another approach:
PPPop also offers to auto-start a connection and auto-launch specific
applications/files/AppleScripts once it is started itself. By that you can
have PPPop auto-establish a connection and launch Emailer without the need
to do any AppleScript-ing on your side. All you would need is another
utility that starts up PPPop at a certain time the rest would be done by
PPPop itself (it can auto-close the PPP connection and/or Emailer after a
user-defined timer interval).
PPPop is available via FTP on Info-Mac or check out Rob Friefeld's web page
at:
http://users.deltanet.com/~friefeld
Hope this helps,
Andy
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:31:26 -0700
From: kee nethery
Subject: [A] Game of Life
>Can anybody point me, where can I find The Game of Life for Macintosh. It's
>old life simulation game.I have version for PC, but I have no PC.
If you want to get a life
look here.http://www.kagi.com/authors/akt/lifelab.html
Kee Nethery
Kagi
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 03:07:05 -0700
From: kee nethery
Subject: [A] Internet on a Mac Classic?
>Internet on a Mac Classic?
I use my Mac Classic as a QuickCam web server. It serves up my QuickCam
images round the clock. Yes a Classic can survive quite nicely as an
internet device, mine's a server.
Kee Nethery
Kagi
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 07:30:01 +0200
From: [email protected] (Andreas C. Bauer)
Subject: [A] Looking For PPP Timer/Connect
You wrote:
> Subject: [Q] Looking For PPP Timer/Connect
>
> Is there a PPP timer that is an app that will start timing connections as
> soon as they are established? (also from withing the program) And it would
> be usefull if it required a password to reset the timer. (not required
> though)
>
> Note: The program must not time connections that are established by the
> config ppp panel i.e. by an extension. Only time connections established
> within itself.
Andrew,
I use PPPop by Rob Friefeld. It's a small application (uses about 200-250K
of RAM) that displays just a single button (two sizes available: 32x32
pixel or 25x16) which toggles your PPP connection.
It also offers to display another even smaller window beneath it, that
displays either of three timers:
- total time (resests itself on a specific day of the month if you like to)
- session time (time of active/last PPP connection)
- daily time (total of all of today's PPP connections)
Both the button window and the timer window can be positioned freely and
independent of each other on your screen.
PPPop also has a "Launcher", where you can define specific applications,
files and AppleScripts that launch right out of PPPop. You can even define
a hotkey for launching those items. Effectively when hitting one of your
defined hotkeys, PPPop would first open a PPP connection then launch the
assigned application. But there are some interesting options for
fine-tuneing:
Regarding your note:
PPPop does time _all_ PPP connections _while_running_ - regardless if you
open the connection via PPPop's button or via the MacTCP, FreePPP or other
control panel. However, it does _not_ time anything if it is not running.
Now for the fine-tuning part: PPPop also offers to "auto-launch" Launcher
items you defined as soon as it opens and/or closes a PPP connection. And
also PPPop offers to do this as soon as you start PPPop itself. So to get
what you want, you would define an application (or more) to auto-launch as
soon as PPPop is opened and launch an AppleScript that closes PPPop as soon
as this connection is closed.
Effectively each time you double-click on PPPop's icon PPPop's timer is
started and then your appication(s) and as soon as you close the connection
via PPPop's button, your application is closed and then PPPop itself. That
way you only time your PPP connections while launching them via double
clicking on PPPop's icon. Any other way of establishing a PPP connection
will not cause the timer to update.
PPPop is available via FTP on Info-Mac or check out Rob Friefeld's web page
at:
http://users.deltanet.com/~friefeld
Check it out, I like it a lot. Better than all the other timers around.
Hope this helps,
Andy
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:12:34 -0400
From: [email protected] (Barry Kirsch)
Subject: [Q] More Then 2 Serial Ports
Jason P. Torrey writes:
>Flipping through the magazines and catalogs, I see Port Juggler 4x and
>PortShare Pro. Does anybody have any comments on these products or some
>other one in mind?
DO NOT BUY Port Juggler 4x ! I bought one for my 9500 clone and it does
not work. I was going to send it back to the mail-order company that I
bought it from but the manufacturer promised me that they would send me a
software fix but the never did. I have sent many emails to them since then
and they never gave me a response. That's $100 down the drain. Anyone
wanna buy one from me...never used!
Barry Kirsch
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 96 22:47:31 -0400
From: Doc Walker
Subject: [Q] More Then 2 Serial Ports
>I am looking for some hardware and software that will allow me to connect
>more than two devices to my serial ports...i.e. modem, printer, newton,
>digital camera, etc.
>From MacWay Digest 333:
>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:34:52 -0400
>From: [email protected]
>Subject: $$--MegaWolf Special Offer
>Message-ID:
>
>This special offer is from:
>
> (ward mcfarland)
>
>MegaWolf, Inc., specialists in PCI serial expansion solutions for the
>Macintosh, is pleased to offer a special deal plus two contests for
>EvangeListas. To celebrate the release of Rufus - our 8 port, high speed
>PCI Serial Card scheduled for August 15, we are offering an early bird
>special - purchase Rufus before 8/10/96 and save $150 off the retail
>price of $695. Thats right, eight additional serial ports for only $545!
>In addition, be one of the first 50 people to correctly guess the reason
>for the cards name and you will save an additional $50 for a total cost
>of only $495!! Make sure to mention the EvangeList to be eligible for
>this special pricing.
>
>Rufus adds 8 "smart" serial ports, up to 460,800 baud per port, with
>standard RS-232 support. An on-board RISC processor and half a megabyte
>of on-board buffering ensures minimal loading of your Macintosh, while
>supporting very high serial data rates. The Power PC native drivers are
>all MacOS and Communication Toolbox compatible. Rufus is a perfect way to
>support any Mac BBS, multi-line fax or mail server, or to control
>multiple serial hardware devices. Rufus carries a 5 year hardware
>warranty, 1 year free software updates, a 6 week 'no-fault' return
>policy, and unlimited free technical support.
>
>The contests are open to all EvangeListas, whether MegaWolf customers or
>not. We need a name for our next two PCI serial expansion products.
>Contest One is to help us pick a name for the 4 port PCI serial card that
>we expect to start shipping by mid September. If you submit the name we
>select you will win one of the cards as soon as it is shipping! Contest
>Two is very similar, but is seeking a name for the modestly priced 2 port
>PCI Serial card that we plan for early October. Again, if you submit the
>name we select you will win one of the cards. Be sure to submit only one
>entry per email, with the subject field containing 'MegaWolf Name
>Contest'. All entries will be considered for both products, so you have
>two chances to win for each name you enter. In case of duplicate winning
>entries, the earliest submission will win.
>
>MegaWolf is a leader in Macintosh PCI serial expansion products, having
>released its Fenris line of expandable multiport PCI serial cards in the
>first quarter of 1996. MegaWolf is a Macintosh-only developer.
>
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>[email protected] or via our WWW site at http://www.megawolf.com.
>
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> to see how you can help the cause.
HTH.
Doc
--
Doc Walker
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 00:33:45 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Apple's Post Card
Christian,
I also filled in the little post card that I receive in the box that came
with my Mac. (I actually did it about five times, for five different Mac's
that I've owned) In all cases I got what I wanted, which was a subscription
to MacWorld. My MacWorld magazine subscriptions currently does not end until
1998.
-- Vinko
Vinko Enterprises
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 17:48:57 -0500
From: [email protected] (Morethanone Kalar)
Subject: Apple 17-inch Multiple Scan Monitor
[email protected] (James Owens) wrote:
> I have an Apple 17-inch Multiple Scan monitor. The image on the screen
> measures about 14.5 in. diagonally in either 832x624 or 1024X768
> resolution. The black mask measures nearly 16 in., and the plastic bezel
> measures 16.5 in.
Readers like me who don't have access to a big store full (or college
lab full) of monitors and who want to get the largest image for a given
screen size might consider the Sony Multiscan series.
We recently got a Multiscan15sx. This $420 Trinitron monitor has image
size, centering and shape controls on the front. They let you expand the
image to cover the full screen. Ours is used in 832x624 mode. The screen
is completely filled by the image. I just measured the image at a hair
under 14" (35 cm) diagonal.
So what does the "15" in 15sx mean? Nothing meaningful. By any non-BS
measure of utility, the 15sx is a 14" monitor. What will it take to stop
this kind of misdirection by the industry?
Ignore what they tell you you're going to get. Or what you will get is
*naughtyword*. Do what Pythagoras or Leonardo would have done. Take a
ruler to the store.
-- Tony
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:05:49 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Apple free gifts
[email protected] (New Mysterian) wrote:
>*When I registered the purchase of both my CPU and my PB, I filled out the
>little card that asks you to select your "free gift" and chose a mouse pad
>(both times), but have yet to see either. Has anybody else been skunked?
>Who should/could I contact (preferably via E-Mail) about this?
... and [email protected] (Christian Parent) replied:
>Well, just to complete or answer your question on the fact that you didn't
>receive anything as you filled up the card for that gift. Actually, I did
>the same and also never received anything. I asked for the Macworld mag and
>never ever received it or anything else for that matter. Starting to
>believe it's a small joke that Apple played on us. And if it's not, I would
>gladly see any results. Is there anybody else that got the same situation?
Several years ago when I bought an LC (or was it when I got the LCIII
upgrade?), I requested and received the free Apple mousepad. I think it
may have taken a few months, but I _did_ receive it.
(It's gotten kind of dirty and worn, though... I should send in my PM7200's
registration card soon so I can ask for a new mousepad.)
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 00:00:43 +0000
From: [email protected] (Ian Burt)
Subject: Apple Video Player
Hello Macpeople,
I was hoping to view the Olympics whilst working using Apple Video Player.
When I tried to open it I was given a dialog which read:
"AppleVideoPlayer requires the Video Startup Extension to be installed.
Make sure it has been installed in the Extensions Folder and that your
computer has been restarted."
Now the extension is in the Extension Folder already, so I turn to Norton
Utilities to help out. It gives me some advice about bad creation date
should I fix it? So I said OK and finished the scan, rebooted and tried
again. Same dialog
Then I rebuilt the desktop and zapped the PRAM, clutching at straws by now.
No good. I ran Norton again, sometimes it can help, not this time.
So is there anyone out there who can steer me in the right direction? I
don't want to have to do a re-install of my System Folder as it has been
done recently when I moved up to OS 7.5.3. I have a Performa 630 which
installs from CDROM and you have little control over being selective about
what you install, unless someone can tell me which of the disk copy files
contains the Video Startup init?
Any advice really needs to be emailed, not only to save the bandwidth but
to get me viewing asap
TIA
Ian Burt
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 00:56:26 +0000
From: [email protected] (Ian Burt)
Subject: Apple Video Player-sorted
Hello Mac fellows,
a few days ago I posted a plea for help in getting Apple Video Player to
launch. I haven't seen it in the list yet, but to stop people wasting
bandwidth and time , it seems the right thing to do is to say - please
don't bother, the problem has been resolved by a long and tedious process
of elimination of start up items. I am not going to name names as what gave
me problems will probably not bother anyone else. If anybody *does* email
me, thanks, I will reply in time.
All the best,
Ian Burt
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 14:37:32 +1000
From: "G. Paul Savage"
Subject: Apple workgroup servers
Can anyone tell me what the advantages are of using an Apple workgroup
server on a network compared to using, say, a PPC 8500 with a couple of big
drives? We are trying to resist using a Novell network (shudder) but the
workgroup servers are generally more expensive than the corresponding
desktop machine. Why is this so and what extra do you get? The network will
serve about 50-70 Macs.
Paul
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 16:09:55 +0800 (HKT)
From: [email protected] (Victor Tobias)
Subject: Barcode reader needed!!!
>Does anyone know where I could find a decent bacode reader for a
Macintosh?
>I am particularly interested in a portable, hand-held, gun-like
scanner of
>some sort. Any information that would help my search would be greatly
Check out Bear Rock Technologies at [email protected] or 800-232-7625
Recommended.
V.T.
Manila, Philippines
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:28:05 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Can I use the ZIP drive packaged for IBM?
>My local London Drugs computer store in Nanaimo BC, which alas sells
>no Mac stuff, has a great sale on Zip drives both the original Iomega and
>the Epson brand the latter selling for $289 Cdn. or about $200 US$.
>
>Both however are packaged with installation s/w and cords for those
>other platforms. If I bought one of these can I easily & cheaply get
>the right Mac stuff for them?
The Iomega ZIP drive is sold in two versions: SCSI and Parallel. The SCSI
version will work on both PCs (with a SCSI card) and Macs, and it comes
with software for both DOS and Macs. I'm sure the same thing applies to
the Epson version, but read the box to make sure.
You might find it cheaper to order from MacWarehouse Canada,
1-800-268-7805. Their price is $299 Cdn, but you won't have to pay
provincial sales tax and shipping is only $10 for orders under 15 pounds.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:45:33 -0700
From: Aaron Peckham
Subject: Connecting Networks w/ ARA
Hello!
I'm using Apple Remote Access 2.1 to remotely contact a collection of three
machines across town. It works fine with one-to-many, but I would like to
do a many-to-many transmission (all the macs on my network able to connect
to all the macs on the other network).
Here's the best graphical representation I can do:
a b c d
| | | |
|------------------------
|
ARA
|
|----------------
| | |
x y z
I would like B to connect to Z, D to Y, C to X, etc.
How can I do this, using ARA?
Thanks!
Aaron Peckham
--
Aaron Peckham
http://www.ns.net/~peckham/
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 19:42:31 -0500
From: Joe Hanson
Subject: Eudora mailboxes
I'm using Eudora 3.0. When I receive an Info-Mac update it arrives as a
cover page plus an attachment.
The attachment contains the individual Info-Mac notices. After I read and
delete those notices, I then usually trash the cover sheet.
That's when I encounter this anomaly, Even though I've trashed everything
related to the update, Eudora has set up the each individual Info-Mac
update as a separate Mailbox.
In order to get rid of them I have to open the Mailbox window in Settings
menu r and individually remove each one. It's not a big deal but I figure
that I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?
Educational Media, LLC
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 7:09:04 -0400
From: "Violette, John"
Subject: Free Gifts from Apple?
I sent my card in to Apple and didn't get anything either. I too asked
for the MacWorld magazine and never got it.
John
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 96 10:23:39 -0500
From: chaz
Subject: FreePPP
> The problem is getting FreePPP to log in.
>
> Anyone out there have any cool ideas?
THere should be an "Allow applications to open connections" [or something
like that] checkbox in FreePPP Setup or ConfigPPP [whichever one you
have].
Make sure that's checked, and when then when any application attempts to
open a TCP connection [as Eudora does], FreePPP will dial and connect for
you.
chazl
08.02.96
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 00:29:26 +0000
From: jason hoffman
Subject: GeoPort
is there any software that will help my geoport telecom adapter run
any faster? like so many others, i too have hoped for the much
delayed release of an update.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:23:40 -0400
From: "Robert A. McIvor"
Subject: Gifts to Macintosh purchasers.
To give the experience of two purchasers, A Performa 600 (requested
mouse pad, got nothing), a Quadra 660AV (requested mouse pad, got mouse
pad), a Performa 5100CD (requested MacWorld, got nothing) and a PowerMac
7500 (requested MacWorld, am receiving MacWorld). I don't remember if the
offer was available when the SE-30 was in production, but if so, nothing
was received. Score seems to be 50%.
Best wishes
Bob McIvor
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:34:21 +0000
From: Rex Godby
Subject: HP Deskwriter 550C background printing: disk thrashing
(I posted an earlier version of the following to comp.sys.mac.printing
and, despite 3 sympathetic replies, received no solution consistent with
the use of virtual memory. So I'm trying the Digest.)
I'm getting pretty fed up with the long delays in printing in the
background on my HP Deskwriter 550C on a Power Mac 6100 running virtual
memory. (Typical symptoms: machine locks up for 1-2 minutes, with
constant hard disk thrashing, when printing even a short document.)
I've seen this and similar symptoms mentioned several times in
newsgroups, but I've never seen a cure mentioned.
I was thinking about switching to QuickDraw GX for printing, if this
offers a cure to these problems. Can anyone who's tried it please say
whether it does?
Or another alternative: does HP background printing behave better if I
turn off virtual memory and install RAM Doubler?
Relevant current extension versions: HP Background 4.0.6 and DW 6.0.3
(which I believe to be up-to-date for the 550C).
--
Rex Godby Tel. (+44) (0)1904 432231
Department of Physics Fax (+44) (0)1904 432214
University of York E-mail [email protected]
York YO1 5DD, U.K. http://www.york.ac.uk/~rwg3/
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 13:34:55 PST
From: [email protected]
Subject: HP DeskWriter cartridge ink REFILLS
Dear Mac Friends,
I've been using Graphics Utilities ink refills for HP Deskwriter cartridge
#51626A for years very satisfactorily.
For some reason these are no longer available in this little paradise
on the West Coast (well we do have a wonderful summer...) so I was
wondering if any of you know a good eliable cheap source in USDA
or Canada where we can recharge our draining printer boxes?
Much obliged for any suggestions emailed to me or to [email protected]
Thanks friends,
Paul Thompson, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:38:56 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Imagewriter II sheet feeder help needed
Anyone know why the sheet feeder on my mint-condition Imagewriter II doesn't
work? Manual feeding works fine, but sheet feeder won't take up paper: seems
dead.
Thanks in advance,
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:03:55 -0600
From: [email protected] (Neil Fiertel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #176
Regarding not receiving the magazine subscription promised after
registering my Mac...hey, did anyone ever get it? Not I...and I did not
appreciate it and am considering a Power Computing Clone for my next unit
in payment...true.
Anyone listening at Apple? Maybe now they are but I am still
waiting for answers... hint hint. Neil Fiertel
Just three strands of rusty barbed wire from the North Pole...
------------------------------
Date: 2 Aug 1996 18:17:09 +0200
From: [email protected] (Tobias Kuipers)
Subject: Internet on a Mac Classic?
[email protected] writes:
>I have been asked by a prospective client is they can acces the 'net via
>their Mac Classic (running system 6.17 or 6.07?)
Sure. I've been running SLIP for a couple of years on a Classic.
Make sure the Classic has 4 Mb, set it up with sys 7.0 (free), and
you're ready. I'm afraid most SLIP/PPP applications won't work under sys
6.x, but that's just a guess.
Netscape doesn't work without Color QuickDraw, but last time I checked
(about 8 months ago) other browsers (MacWeb, Mosaic etc) do. Eudora
works just fine without color, as does Fetch, NewsWatcher, and so on.
this enough info?
cheers,
Tobias
--
URL : http://adam.fwi.uva.nl/~kuipers/index.html
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 21:47:14 -0500
From: Michael Sullivan
Subject: internet on classic(a)
mac tcp 2.04/2.06 both work fine on classic. Eudora, telnet etc also ok.
netscape may work, but the figures will look awful because of dithering
to provide pseudo-gray-scale from monochrome monitor. older mac plus
vintage machines will also work, but will NOT support netscape because
of problems in the old mac-plus roms (includes pb100 as well....)
Mike
--
Mike Sullivan - [email protected]
http://kc2kj.k2nesoft.com:8080/Merchantville
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:21:14 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Long-wondered Mac mysteries
[email protected] (New Mysterian) wrote:
>Just for curiosity's sake, which ULTIMATELY came first - the Mac OS or
>Winblows? I've always gone around saying iBM copied Mac, but I'd like to
>know I'm firmly based in truth rather than relying on half-fuzzy
>quasi-recollections.
The Mac came first, in 1984.
Apple got the basic ideas for a graphical interface from work done at Xerox
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), but refined it a lot and released the
Apple Lisa in 1983. The first Mac was released in 1984, borrowing heavily
>From the Lisa but with further refinement.
According to Byte magazine, Feb. 1994, many features that are now common on
PCs were first introduced on Macintosh computers:
- Cut and Paste
- Undo
- Point-and-Click menu selection
- API (Application Programming Interface) (though Apple didn't call it that)
- Built-in networking capability
- Plug-and-play philosphy
- Dynamic memory allocation
- Hypertext
- 24-bit color capability
I don't recall when Microsquash released Windows 1.0, but it was definitely
after the Mac, and it was pretty lousy. They finally improved it enough
with version 3.0 that it started to become popular.
Incidentally, MS-DOS (first called PC-DOS) was an imitation, too. They
copied much of the design from an older operating system, called CP/M,
which ran on a variety of different microcomputers. Even the disk
directory structure and the operating system calls were nearly identical to
those of CP/M.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:12:17 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Lost PPP Connection
[email protected] (Wendy Weiner) wrote:
>My PPP connection seems to hang up for no reason. I was just reading my
>email and heard a click. The PPP screen still said "up" but I checked the
>phone line, and there was the dial tone. What's going on?
Since PPP says it's still connected, it's not PPP that hung up. The modems
either hung up or lost the connection, but the PPP software doesn't
recognize right away that this has happened. You can force PPP to
recognize that the connection is lost by telling it to close the connection.
As for why the connection was lost, there are several possibilities.
The most likely cause is noise on the phone line, which would interfere
with the modems' ability to talk to each other and cause them to hang up.
Noise on the lines can be due to problems with the telephone system, the
telephone wiring in your house, or somebody picking up a phone on the same
line elsewhere in the house.
A less likely cause is a power outage or computer crash at your Internet
Service Provider.
Another possibility is that your ISP had to take the system offline in
order to do some maintenance.
Finally, some ISPs set a login time limit which cuts you off after you've
been online for a certain amount of time.
If you find that you can log in again right away, then it was either line
noise or a per-call time limit.
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:44:57 -0700
From: "David L. Hirschberg"
Subject: MacTCP prefs switcher program for Open Tranport 1.1 (q)
Is there a program like MacTCP prefs switcher that works with open transport?
Depending where I am I use ethernet, appletalk or a ricochet modem to
connect my powerbook to the net.
At present I have to do a multistep process that involves loading the
correct config file under the Appletalk control panel (ethernet or
modem/printer port) and then loading the correct config file for the TCP/IP
control panel (ricochet, ethernet, or appletalk). Is there a program or
applescript that can do this for me?
The one limitation I had with MacTCP pref switcher using classic appletalk
was that it only swapped out the tcpprefs file and did not change the
network control panel (ethernet and appletalk).
If anyone out there has a suggestion I would love to hear from you.
Thank you,
David
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 00:12:29 -0400
From: [email protected] (Patrick Hoepfner)
Subject: Mklinux
> Is it true that the current version of Mklinux for the PowerMac only
> runs on machines with the 601 chip?
Yes. In particular the early PowerMac 6100/7100/8100 machines with NuBus.
> Is it likely that this limitation will be true of the official release
> when it comes in the next couple of months?
I don't know but this is an effort that is funded by Apple and they don't
have loads of cash to throw around on things that don't make money. But
you have to suspect that porting it to the newer PowerMacs should be an
important move...
> Finally, is there a place where a potential user can get questions
> answered by people working on the project? Thanks.
You can go directly to the "source" to find out the answers:
There they say:
| Apple Computer is supporting a project with the Open Software Foundation
| Research Institute (OSF-RI) to port Linux, a freely distributed version
| of UNIX, to a variety of Power Macintosh products. This version of Linux,
| known as MkLinux, operates on the OSF-RI Mach (Mk) microkernel, running
| natively on the PowerPC microprocessor.
One of the problems that the Linux developers are having is that as the Mac
hardware matured much changed. And Apple did a beautiful job making the
changes invisible to the user.
Like the dashboard of a car, no matter what engine they put under the hood,
and regardless of the suspension you could still drive the car. This was
what Apple aimed for (and if you ask me they hit the nail on the head!).
But this makes the Linux developers job of building a single set of drivers
for all of the machines difficult. So they were starting with one set of
machines, and that was the 6100/7100/8100 (NuBus, PowerPC 601) machines.
NOTE: The Official Linux site is:
But I just tried it and it reported that no DNS entry was found. Maybe
they had the same problem that Microsoft's MSNBC server did... not paying
the $100 for their domain name...
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:47:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Luis Antonio Alvarado Flores)
Subject: MS Word 6.0 is faster if you...
I find some way to MS Word 6.0 start up faster, you must have only the
number of font that you are gona use...
that's mean... if you only are gona use 5 fonts on your document, try
quiting all the rest, this is because MS Word start up one by one font, and
if you have too much... is gonna take too much time...
So if you have Suitcase II try quiting all font and let only the system
fonts and then start up MS Word.
Once you have finished your work in MS Word, you can try opening the rest
of the fonts to your system.
I hope this help you!
If you have one suggestion, let me know please.
Luis Antonio Alvarado Flores
[email protected]
Zacatecas, Zac. Mexico
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 11:47:30 -0400
From: John Hachey
Subject: netscape and ram
Hello,
My netscape2.0.2 seems to hide about 8 Megs of ram
when I quit it, and the ram only reappears after I restart.
Any ideas how to get around this?
(centris 660av and system 7.5.3)
Thx, John
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:18:10 -0500
From: [email protected] (Finkelstein, Ben)
Subject: Newbie questions
Hi, all. I've just had my Performa 6300CD for a few months,
after spending years with DOS machines and a much-beloved
Atari 800XL. I think I'm starting to get the hang of things, but
I have three questions for the community.
1) On my PC I use MS-Kermit, a freeware comm package with a
very good VT100/102/220/320 emulator. Among its features is
support for the VT terminals' slaved printer port escape
codes, which permits a host system to direct appropriate data
to the printer attached to my PC. Neither Claris Works 4 nor
ZTerm seems to support this function--output that the host
tries to send to my printer simply scrolls across the screen.
What Mac terminal software has this functionality? (Actually,
MS-Kermit not only supports slaved printer output, but allows
me to redirect the slaved printer output to a file or other
device, so this is question really tests the proposition that
good Mac software exists to match any good DOS program.)
2) Does one need a disk defrag utility for the Mac, or does
System 7.5 take care of this itself? I have not seen reference to
a defragger in any of the archives on http://mirrors.apple.com.
I'd look on D.C. area BBS's if I knew of any, but I don't.
3) One of my most-relied upon DOS programs is a good thought
processor/outliner. I use MaxThink. I know that Symantec used
to sell a well-regarded outliner/presentation program for the
Mac called MORE (developed by the author of the pioneering
ThinkTank), and that there was once a Mac version of MaxThink,
but these programs now seem to be defunct. Any recommendations
or suggestions? (Don't mention Word and WordPerfect; their outlining
functions are geared towards formatting, not organization.)
Thanks for any help you can provide!
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Date: 1 Aug 1996 23:40:24 GMT
From: Aat Stevens
Subject: request for information
Hello,
my name is Aat Stevens and Ime working as a project manager for
a Dutch firm specialized in ICT system management. Recently we
were asked to draw up an scenario to outsource the Apple based IT
infrastructure for one of the lager firms in the Dutch grafics
industry . All though we are specialized in managing Windows and
Novell based systems we definitely want to accommodate this
client.
So, Ime looking for information on system management in large
(50 units or more) Apple sites. Ime specially interested in the
following subjects:
- system management methods;
- examples of process oriented methods like ITIL (are there any
Apple sites that are managed with a process
oriented method ?);
- remote system management, which tools to use and are there any
sites who have build there remote
system management around SMS.
Who can get me started ?
Aat Stevens
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Koch
Subject: Searching the archives
Another option is http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu, where you can search
for names of archived titles.
Paul Koch
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:49:15 -0700
From: [email protected] (Wendy Weiner)
Subject: Where's my Fast-Find??
Hi--
I keep a Fast Find alias under the Apple window. It wouldn't open, so I
used Norton Disk Doctor and fixed all it said to do, then rebuilt the
desktop. My Fast Find returned. For about 2 times. This morning I tried
to access it, and I got the message, "unknown file quit because a type 3
error occurred." Any ideas? I have a Mac LC, System 7, 10 megs RAM with
500 on my hard drive.
Thanks.
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Date: 2 Aug 1996 17:43:34 GMT
From: [email protected] (Bryan Walls)
Subject: Zip Drives
You could use the IBM Zip drive with your Mac, as long as you got the SCSI
version. You'd need to get hold of the tools separately, though you don't
have to have the software for the Zip to work just fine. It's just nice to
have.
On the other hand, that's not a great price. MacMall has the Epsom version
for about $130, after the rebate. Of course, you should be eligable for
Iomega's $50 rebate if you bought the local one (these prices all $US).
Make sure the rebate applies to you, though!
--
Bryan Walls My Words are not NASA policy.
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:53:33 -0500
From: "C. Posey"
Friday | 02.08.96 | 6:53 PM CST | -0500
Ref: 1:24 PM -0400 7/31/96, Andrew Murray
> Is there a PPP timer that is an app that will
> start timing connections as soon as they are
> established? (also from withing the program) And
> it would be usefull if it required a password to
> reset the timer. (not required though)
>
> Note: The program must not time connections that
> are established by the config ppp panel i.e. by
> an extension. Only time connections established
> within itself.
I have had GREAT results with PPPop and PPPremier Timer (both from
Info-Mac if I'm not mistaken). Both will watche for the actual
connection or termination. PPPop has more timing features and
PPPremier Timer is better looking and takes up less RAM. I have had
a lot of luck scripting both of them (although AE is best supported
in PPPop, it has never seemed to make a difference).
I would get them both and test drive each for a week and see which
feels right for you. I recently switched to PPPremier Timer because
my server has gone to unlimited online time and I no longer need the
various graduated timing modes, etc.
Cleve Posey
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