Info-Mac Digest V14 #200
Posted: August 29th, 1996, 4:00 am
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 29 Aug 96 Volume 14 : Issue 200
Today's Topics:
(Q) Default paper tray and envelope tray
>Subject- External Mouse &
[A] MacOS-Based NFS Server
Aaron 1.4.1 - no zoom?
Ammon Skidmore/Terminator Strip?
Any Limitation from PowerTower's Design?
Apple Citibank "Apple Bucks"...on the way out?
Applescript for sys 7.1
Bug in Mac Easy Open or Stuffit Expander?
Circuit Analysis Program
Eudora Light
Expresso
Filemaker Pro list
French grammatical CALL software?
Hard drive space problem
Help with INIT and Extension owners
Hypercard hangup
Info-Mac Digest V14 #198 (2 msgs)
ISDN experiences needed
LW8.4 and IIci
Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
MAC Point of Sale
Mystery Extensions (Q)
On Location and WordPerfect files (solved)
Open Transport 1.1
Quadra 630 and external HD
Quickbooks 4.0 review
receiving this digest in GroupWise - save to text
request for info on sound manager
SA to Europe - Voltage converter
Shrinking font problem....
Simpletext
Using the "@" on a German keyboard
WANTED: MS Flight Simulator for Mac scenery
WaterMark program questions
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:50:00 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: (Q) Default paper tray and envelope tray
I have a LaserWriter Pro 600 and two questions:
(1) Where can I obtain the Postscript code that will switch the default
tray to Multi-purpose?
(2) I installed a new Envelope Feeder today. The PPD now says I have it,
but neither my 5300 or 6100 can see the tray as available in the Print
dialog box? Both are running Laserwriter 8.3.3. Is this a known bug?
Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
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Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:28:36 -0600
From: "WJ Shack"
Subject: >Subject- External Mouse &
>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 16:05:02 -0000
>From: Patrick Mulvey
>Subject: External Mouse & PowerBook
>
>When I plug an external mouse into a PowerBook 520C and then restart, the
>mouse will work at the correct speed for a while, but will eventually
>slow down to a crawl. Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks In Advance,
>
>Patrick Mulvey
>[email protected]
Are you by any change using the Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box? At least some
versions of this mouse have this problem with PBs. Call Kensington.
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:15:45 -0500
From: [email protected] (Pablo Roufogalis)
Subject: [A] MacOS-Based NFS Server
>Does anyone know of a hack that would make a Macintosh
>running Mac OS an NFS server?.
I got the following URL from Anthony J. Stuckey
http://prozac.student.cwru.edu/jude/macnfs/MacNFS.html.
The program is called NFSd (echoes FTPd). This is work-in-progress from
[email protected]. The page includes links for two NFS clent for
the Mac, including the site for Intercom's NFSShare, from where you can
download a demo.
Thanks to everyone that answered my query. Thanks to Gordon Watts, Liam
Breck, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan for Info-Mac.
Pablo Roufogalis L.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:51:12 -0500
From: [email protected] (Pilfered Publishing TM)
Subject: Aaron 1.4.1 - no zoom?
I just upgraded my Aaron to 1.4.1 and now there is this annoying new
"zooming" feature that I would like to get rid of. This reminded me of an
old "stupid mac trick" from the old Mac Classic days.
Anyway- does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of this zooming
feature on window openings?
TIA-
Jeff Sass [email protected]
Computer Science Graduate Student Washington University in St. Louis
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:26:08 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Ammon Skidmore/Terminator Strip?
Friends:
I was wondering the whereabouts of Ammon Skidmore, author of the
fabulous Control Strip _Terminator Strip_. Formerly at ,
that address as well as the one on his Web site seem to no longer be
available.
Ammon -- if you are listening -- I want to pay my shareware fee!
Thanks for your help,
Clint
--
Clint MacDonald |
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:30:58 -0400
From: Heejoon Park
Subject: Any Limitation from PowerTower's Design?
One of the systems I am considering for purchase is Power Computing's
PowerTower series, especially PowerTower 180e. (Others are PowerMac 8500
and 7600.)
Since PowerTower series' design is supposedly based on PowerMac 7200, I am
wondering what design limitations there are for future upgrades and
compatibility.
I am aware of the lack of RAM interleaving and AV features. I also believe
that it does not offer SCSI-2 out of the box.
What other caveats are there that I need to consider before purchase?
Thanks in advance.
Heejoon
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 11:26:00 -0400
From: "jim (j.) blakeman"
Subject: Apple Citibank "Apple Bucks"...on the way out?
Here's something that I'd like to contribute to your listings:
Recently there has been some talk at www.macintosh.com that Citibank's
Apple card program may be on its last leg. I called Citibank & they said that
the program is currently "under review".
Rumor has is that "Apple Bucks" may stop accruing in October, and
all existing "Bucks" may need to be spent by the end of the year.
If this is true, its a real shame...its nice to earn 2-5% back on
credit card purchases, especially since the bucks can be used for any Apple
products (with Citibank's program, my Powerbook 5300cs was only $1300).
-James
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:35:57 -0400
From: [email protected] (John Rethorst)
Subject: Applescript for sys 7.1
>Though I have searched and searched I cannot seem to find a
>version of AppleScript that will work on my PB running system 7.1x.
The current version of Applescript, 1.1, runs fine on sys 7.1 (also 7.0 if
you install the Apple Event Manager extension as well). The basic
Applescript package, including the Applescript extension, Script Editor and
a bunch of osaxen, is free at:
ftp://ftpdev.info.apple.com/Developer_S ... pleScript/
AppleScript_Setup/Apple%27s_Scripting_Syste.sit.hqx
John R.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:11:40 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Bug in Mac Easy Open or Stuffit Expander?
> For anyone who missed my original Info-Mac posting, I'm experiencing a bug
> where a .sit file which has just been expanded remains selected when I
> single-click another file in the same window. This only seems to occur when
> Mac Easy Open is active, and I don't remember seeing it before I got
> Expander 4.01.
I had a similar problem, the details of which I now forget. But it went
away when I disabled Archive via Rename in True Finder Integration.
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:51:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Circuit Analysis Program
In a previous article, Erkuan Zhong wrote:
->
->Do anyone know any circuit analysis program that is designed for PowerMac?
->
->Pspice is a fine program, but doesn't work with my PowerMac. I am not
->interesting in some kind of software emulation program, it's way too
->slow.
->
->Thanks
->
There are few of them available, depending on what you need and amount
of money you are willing to spend.
There are few Berkely SPICE ports for Mac and PMac available in info-mac,
just check out /sci directory (or search hyper-archive for spice).
In commercial level, there are ICAPS by IntuSoft (http://www.intusoft.com),
which is Spice with schematic capture, scope and a lots of models. It's quite
good, but it has some interface quirks. That's what I'm using, anyway.
The other one is SMASH by Capilano Computing (http://www.capilano.com).
It's not exactly Spice, but true mixed-mode simulator that uses SPICE
sintax for analog part and event-driven simulator for digital part. It
doesn't have schematic capture, but Capilano makes and excellent schematic
capture programm, DesignWorks, which produces output that Smash can
understand (or so I'v been told). I looked at the demo and it seems to
be pretty good, but I never used it. Both of these programms are expensive,
profeccional-level simulators that can be used for real-life work. ICAPS
costs about $2000.00 for whole package (you can by spice part only for about
$500.00) and SMASH goes somwhere from $3000.00 to $10000.00, depending on your
needs.
There is also cheap (about $120.00 full, $40.00 student) Spice with
integrated schematic capture, mady by Biege Bag Software, called B^2 Spice
(B-square Spice). It is good for students and such, since it can't use
external models and input spice decks. They have www homepage, but i don't
remember html for it.
There are also Electronics Workbench, which is a decent schematic capture and
simulator programm, for about $400.00, although it is not nealry as powerfull
as SPICE or SMASH, but much easier to use. I don't know contact info for them,
but you should be able to get by doing Alta-Vista search. I believe that
there are HSpice for Mac, but i'm not sure about it.
Few years back, when I was looking for Mac-based simulator, I investigated
what was available, and found that there were quite a lot of choices I could
make. I went for ICAPS for simulator and DesignWorks for schematic capture.
I remember there were lot more available, but I forgot the names.
Hope that helps.
Mike.
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:39:36 +0100
From: [email protected] (Sonia Kosak)
Subject: Eudora Light
I have been following the list's posting over the last few weeks and have
learnt a great deal,thank you very much.
My query is as follows. I use Eudora Light 1.5.4 for posting and receiving
e-mails. I have installed various versions of Eudora Light since I
connected to the net, always with the same results. It produces a
"settings.backup" file which is always damaged as indicated by the two
repair programs I use. I tend to delete every time I think about it,
because it tends to disrupt the proper functioning of my much beloved
Quadra 700. I am puzzled about this duplicate and why invariably it is
always damaged. I would appreciate your comments.
Best wishes to all
Sonia
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:43:13 -0400
From: "Norman R. Friedman"
Subject: Expresso
When I got my Mac Performa, one of the things installed was "Expresso". I
try to get rid of it by trashing everything I found with that name, in fact
"find" shows nothing with that title in the hard disk. Still the icon
appears on the top menu next to the question mark for the Mac help. Why and
how do I get rid of it.
Thanks in advance.
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:47:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: Filemaker Pro list
Is there a healthy FileMaker Pro list going out there? If not, if there is
interest, I will start one after I get the ISDN project completed.
Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:23:40 +0100
From: Gordon Byron
Subject: French grammatical CALL software?
The French Dept here are desperately seeking software (MAC) which can
offer grammatical testing/revision from elementary to intermediate level
in French for our macintosh CALL lab
provided it is not the Hull university GramEx program which is no
longer offered on the mac. all replies/advice sincerely appreciated
TIA
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:12:56 -0500
From: James Owens
Subject: Hard drive space problem
My PowerMac 7100/66 has a 250mb hard drive with about 8MB available unless
I boot without extensions. Without extensions the drive has about 33MB
available.
My guess is that the Memory control panel is responsible for this since the
difference is the value in the adjustable window of the Virtual Memory
section.
What I want is to have Virtual Memory on at the minimum value (1 megabyte)
since conventional wisdom is that, in general, this model will perform
better with Virtual Memory on. This would give me a total of 25MB: 24MB on
SIMMs and 1MB virtual. The virtual memory section says the hard drive has
33MB available on disk and 24MB available built-in. The window with the
arrow adjustment can be as low as 25M or as high as 33M.
About This Macintosh claims: Built-in Memory 24,576K, Total Memory 25,920K
and 25,920K used as RAM on Hard Drive (the name's been changed to protect
the guilty).
Either something is not right or I do not understand the Virtual Memory
settings. The extensions I use are pretty much standard Apple with a few
others thrown in. The non-Apple extensions have been on and off without
affecting the hard drive available memory.
Am I forced to turn off virtual memory?
Thanks in advance,
James Owens
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:53:07 -0500
From: Paul Kleeberg
Subject: Help with INIT and Extension owners
After years of Macintosh use I think I am finally reaching senility. I
used to know the purpose of all my INITs and I used to be able to identify
their owners. Alas I can no longer to a few.
Could someone please tell me the applications which require and the purpose =
of:
=87TSM Fix 1.01 (That is "Omega"TSM Fix 1.01)
ODBC SQL Server Setup (And several other ODBC extensions)
to name just a couple. *Better still* Is there a searchable database on
the net where these inits and their function are identified?
Paul Kleeberg
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 11:11:21 -0500
From: chaz
Subject: Hypercard hangup
> Why is it that my Hypercard 2.1 won't give me access to anything
>higher than user level 2? I have ignored hypercard until now, but
>when I got a "using hypercard" book from my local library, discovered
>that my copy is locked at user level "lame." Do I have to shell out
>the geld for the new version, or what?
I assume you're at the user settings card in the home stack, and don't
have buttons available for anything above 2.
Some versions of Hypercard had higher user levels hidden on that user
settings card.
In the message box, type "set userlevel to 5".
Show buttons on that card, and you should see a big white one covering up
the rest of the user levels. Delete it. Voila.
If that's not the problem, then apparently you have a copy of Hypercard
Player, and in that case, the answer to your last question is "Yes.".
chazl
08.28.96
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 03:58:27 GMT
From: [email protected] (Richard Mead)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #198
Anyone know of the best place to get "Basic" or "Visual Basic" software
to program a Newton 120 PDA?
Any help would be appreciated!
R.Mead
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 22:37:21 CDT
From: "jacob reichbart"
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #198
on Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:03, [email protected] (Rose Stasuk)
wrote:
>snipNow when I open a connection, as soon as dialing begins, I get
>a warning message which comes up over the PPP status window
>and states:
> !There was a problem with the modem. You might try
> turning the modem off then on again and clicking "Retry".
>snip
Subject: LW8.4 and IIci
Folk, a puzzlement that maybe y'all can help with.
I snagged the new LaserWriter 8.4 driver (all five HD floppies worth)
and installed it on my home IIci and my office Q650/PPC. I tend to let
myself be the guinea pig before I foist new stuff on colleagues/spouse.
Saves wear and tear on my body.
I've seen no problems with the new driver on my office machine ('cept
the multiple-screen PRINT dialog seems designed by MicroSoft), but it
is for sure goofy on the IIci. Both run Sys 7.5.3r2. At home it looks
like it prints, but something gets to the LaserWriter IIf at random.
First time is usually not the charm. Second time is usually the charm.
I'd been thinking I'd forgotten something or done something silly like
pressing cancel instead of print. Old folks do that. Leslye noticed the
same thing when she was on my machine (It's connected to the world. Hers
isn't), so I started checking for oddities. If I choose good-ole-LW
instead of LW8, no problem, mon. I suspect the 8.4 driver. I switch back
to LW 8.3.3 and all is hunky dory again.
This is depressing. Despite my experience, I still expect Apple to be
backward compatible in its wonderful new toys. I suspect I did something
terribly stupid and deserve to die. Y'all have any thoughts?
Al Bloom
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Date: 29 Aug 1996 11:58:44 +0000
From: [email protected] (Mephistophilis)
Subject: Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
I want to buy at least one good Mac resource book pitched at the
sort of person who knows little about electronics or computing
but is nontheless a pretty sophisticated Mac user (i.e. me). The
ideal book should contain as much sort-out-your-own-disaster
advice as possible. (God knows I've needed a lot of that in the
past year or so and though I'd like to think that my troubles are
over with an imminent change-over to a Power Mac 8200 I'm
not holding my breath). The two possibilities that I know of are
the Mac Bible and Hayden's Maclopedia. I gather that the latter
is up to date with System 7.5.3 - but the publisher's data also
says it (the book) can tell you who Steve Jobs is - which sounds
a little Mac-for-dummiesish. Advice/comments on these - or
any other - possibilities would be gratefully received.
TIA -
Fergus Lalor
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:19:06 +0000
From: Richard Brook
Subject: MAC Point of Sale
RE: Macintosh Point of Sale Software for a KINKOS style retail print
shop.
I need a program to run a Kinkos style operation. The LAN will have 7
MACs, 1 PC, and three printers on an Ethernet Network.
The program will need to track a customers time on and off any given
work station, it must have the ability to track all stations at the same
time (also need to think of future growth). Computer time will need to
tracked on a per minuet basis with a different price for design stations
and for word processing stations
The program will also need to track the printer output of each work
station, which printer was used, what type of print, different prices
will be charged for the type of print, type of paper, and size of print.
The program will then need to able to produce an invoice for the time on
the work station as well as the prints made from that work station.
I would like to administer this system from a MAC if possible, but we
would consider administering from a PC provided that we can have all of
our tracking and invoice features available for the MAC computers as
well.
I am looking for commercially available software if possable. I would
appreciate it if you could get back to me as soon as possible with any
possible sollutions and pricing you might have.
Truly,
Richard Brook
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:32:04 -0700
From: [email protected] (Greg Lyzenga)
Subject: Mystery Extensions (Q)
I've found a couple of extensions in my system folder (7.5.3 update 2 on a
PowerMac 6100/60) that I don't remember installing, and I have no idea what
they do. I was hoping that some kind person might clue me in.
The first is a small (3K) extension called KarmaExtension. It has no
distinctive icon, and neither 'Get Info' nor ResEdit yield any information
whatsoever about it's developer, origin or purpose. Apple extensions
usually have some kind of copyright notice at least. What is this thing?
The second is a 40K extension called ASFU Fixer. It seems to have been
written by GDT Softworks, which is a company that sells, among other
things, Mac printer and networking software. However, I have no memory of
having ever bought any product of theirs, and I have no idea what this
extension does, other than display a rather strange animated icon during
startup.
Any info on either of these? Thanks.
- Greg Lyzenga, Dept. of Physics, Harvey Mudd College
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:46:33 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: On Location and WordPerfect files (solved)
> > Does anyone have On Location 2.01 and WordPerfect 3.x? If so, do your
> > indexes include the text of WordPerfect files? I am trying to figure out
> > whether I need a different translator or what?
>
> Look in your System folder for a file called
> "On Location File Kinds". It can be opened and
> edited with any ordinary text editor to specify
> what Mac file types and creators will be indexed
> by On Location (which, incidentally, continues to
> be a great program, even though it seems to have
> been orphaned by ON Technology so far as I know).
This solved the problem. I had to change the creator type for the
WordPerfect files to WPC3. Thanks much!
Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:33:02 -0900
From: "N. Esteban"
Subject: Open Transport 1.1
I have Open Transport 1.08 and would like to use 1.1.1 b7, which tells
me that I need OT 1.1 in order to install it. I understand 1.1.1 b7
fixes the memory fragmentation problems that I've been experiencing on
my 7200......help! I can't seem to find 1.1. I already have 1.1.1b7
Thank You
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:43:57 +0900
From: [email protected] (Darryl McGrath)
Subject: Quadra 630 and external HD
I have a Quadra 630 and until recently, I was using an external 500Mb APS
hard disk. I also have a Panasonic 4x CD-ROM and a zip drive on the SCSI
chain (the APS drive is at the end of the chain).The combination seemed to
work well for a short time, and then I noticed that for no reason the APS
drive light would go on and it sounded like the disk was being accessed
even though I wasn't using any apps or accessing any files on the APS
drive. It didn't seem to cause a problem, so I didn't worry about it. Then
the problem got worse. The same sudden access of the APS drive, only now
the drive light would stay on and the APS drive would spin down and lock up
the Quadra. I'd have to restart. Eventually the APS drive seemed to crash
completely, and just wouldn't run with the Quadra anymore. I assumed it was
dead.
I've since bought a Logitec 1Gb drive and now the same thing is starting to
happen! What on earth is wrong? I can only assume now that it is some kind
of problem with the SCSI bus. I hope someone out there has the answer. I
don't want another dead drive. Thanks.
Darryl McGrath ([email protected])
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:16:54 -0400
From: [email protected] (Stephen C. Camidge)
Subject: Quickbooks 4.0 review
My review of Quickbooks 4.0 is out. If you want to see it, it is referenced
on my web page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/5682
Steve
Stephen C. Camidge [email protected]
RR #1, Desboro, Ontario N0H 1K0 Canada (519) 363-3912
For NHL newslinks see my URL:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/5682
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:44:13 +0200
From: Peter Van Avermaet
Subject: receiving this digest in GroupWise - save to text
I receive this digest in out company's GroupWise mail system - through an
SMTP-to-GroupWise gateway.
All parts (the sender, the gateway, the 'user agent') work very well together,
and GroupWise recognizes the digest as a multipart message, and shows me each
article separately.
However, I would rather download the entire digest, take it home, and read it
in
a digest-browser (Easy View) on my Mac.
I know how I can extract an article to file (in fact, any part of a message).
Can anybody tell me how to extract the entire digest in one operation ? While I
am at it, can anybody tell me how to extract whatever as a text file ? (I
currently extract as a WordPerfect doc, which I import into MS Word and 'save
as' 'text with line-breaks'.)
Thank you, Peter Van Avermaet
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 07:16:21 -0700
From: Susan Lizza
Subject: request for info on sound manager
Is it possible to get sound manager or an equivalent as freeware?
I've been attempting to get audio into my web browsing, and am fairly
new at this. Any assistance you can give is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:49:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (james f. palmer)
Subject: SA to Europe - Voltage converter
Silversteins write: . . .
>At first I was told that I should buy a universal converter, then an adapter,
>but when I tried to get a specific part number or specifications,
>
>I could use a 220 to 110 transformer but I am worried that it may not be
>appropriate for such equipment (perhaps the frequency is also important?).
I went through this with a Zip drive last fall. It is difficult to find a
transformer that supplies sufficient power to drive the motor within needed
tollerances (consummer transformers are generally used for radios and low
poer electronics). Iomega had a universal transformer for the Zip drive
that cost an extra $50. I wish I had bought it in the US. Once in Europe,
Iomega has several tech support offices and I had to call around for help.
I eventaully purchased a European power supply from Iomega in Germany, but
it took me 4 weeks of correspondence and call. I also paid a premium. It
worked well once it was set up.
Jim Palmer, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:50:49 -0500
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: Shrinking font problem....
> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:06:18 -0800
> From: [email protected] (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)
>
> I am having a very unique (to me) experience with the System version of
> the
> Chicago font that is used for the Apple menu items, Apple menu bar
> across
> the desktop, and all other places where this bold version of the Chicago
> font is used. Every once in a while (not consistent and not on a daily
> basis), usually when I am in Eudora and printing a message, the size of
> the
> font shrinks dramatically in these places and turns non-bold. Only
> restarting the system gets rid of it. I've checked for corruption of
> the
> Chicago font and Font Box says it is not corrupted. What could be
> causing
> this?
I used to encounter it routinely with Netscape 1.1N under System 7.5.1 and
7.5.3. Since updating Netscape, I haven't encountered it any more.
Hope this helps. Cheers,
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 07:56:10 +0200
From: [email protected]
Subject: Simpletext
I would be most grateful if anybody has any ideas - every time I start up
my Mac launches Simpletext with a message saying >.
I have tried Norton, rebuilding the desktop etc...
I have about 70 extensions and am running Dark side of the Mac and stickies
as startup items. I have a Powerbook 5300cs 16/800.
Please EMail me at [email protected].
TIA
Bob Cooke
National Accountant
Concern Mozambique
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 13:37:20 +0200
From: "Guenther"
Subject: Using the "@" on a German keyboard
I can not believe it, still so many good ideas how to simply input "@" on
the German keyboard. Look in the computer manuals and play with "Key Caps"
in the apple menu. For those, who have problems: Not all fonts show "@". The
easiest way: Use "Option-Shift-1" and you are right there.
Guenther Fischer
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:48:03 -0400
From: Thomas Waterbury Davis
Subject: WANTED: MS Flight Simulator for Mac scenery
Mac enthusiasts,
I need your help. I have been unable to locate a vendor that is still in
existence that makes scenery files for Microsoft's Flight Simulator 4.0 for
Macintosh. Microsoft's product sales staff have been unable to give me a
number for a company that has not gone out of business (Mallard Direct) or
been bought out by Microsoft (BAO Publishing). Please email me with info on
a vendor making such a product.
Sincerely,
-Tom Davis
Thomas Waterbury Davis - x6066 - [email protected] - http://www.jax.org/~twd/
Jackson Laboratory Computing Services - http://anita.jax.org/jax/jlcs/
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:28:56 -0700
From: Peter Clarke
Subject: WaterMark program questions
can anyone recommend a good program that will allow MS Word 6.1 users to add a
watermark (ie Draft in big letters) anywhwere in a page.
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Aaron 1.4.1 - no zoom?
Ammon Skidmore/Terminator Strip?
Any Limitation from PowerTower's Design?
Apple Citibank "Apple Bucks"...on the way out?
Applescript for sys 7.1
Bug in Mac Easy Open or Stuffit Expander?
Circuit Analysis Program
Eudora Light
Expresso
Filemaker Pro list
French grammatical CALL software?
Hard drive space problem
Help with INIT and Extension owners
Hypercard hangup
Info-Mac Digest V14 #198 (2 msgs)
ISDN experiences needed
LW8.4 and IIci
Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
MAC Point of Sale
Mystery Extensions (Q)
On Location and WordPerfect files (solved)
Open Transport 1.1
Quadra 630 and external HD
Quickbooks 4.0 review
receiving this digest in GroupWise - save to text
request for info on sound manager
SA to Europe - Voltage converter
Shrinking font problem....
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Using the "@" on a German keyboard
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:50:00 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: (Q) Default paper tray and envelope tray
I have a LaserWriter Pro 600 and two questions:
(1) Where can I obtain the Postscript code that will switch the default
tray to Multi-purpose?
(2) I installed a new Envelope Feeder today. The PPD now says I have it,
but neither my 5300 or 6100 can see the tray as available in the Print
dialog box? Both are running Laserwriter 8.3.3. Is this a known bug?
Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
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Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:28:36 -0600
From: "WJ Shack"
Subject: >Subject- External Mouse &
>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 16:05:02 -0000
>From: Patrick Mulvey
>Subject: External Mouse & PowerBook
>
>When I plug an external mouse into a PowerBook 520C and then restart, the
>mouse will work at the correct speed for a while, but will eventually
>slow down to a crawl. Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks In Advance,
>
>Patrick Mulvey
>[email protected]
Are you by any change using the Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box? At least some
versions of this mouse have this problem with PBs. Call Kensington.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:15:45 -0500
From: [email protected] (Pablo Roufogalis)
Subject: [A] MacOS-Based NFS Server
>Does anyone know of a hack that would make a Macintosh
>running Mac OS an NFS server?.
I got the following URL from Anthony J. Stuckey
http://prozac.student.cwru.edu/jude/macnfs/MacNFS.html.
The program is called NFSd (echoes FTPd). This is work-in-progress from
[email protected]. The page includes links for two NFS clent for
the Mac, including the site for Intercom's NFSShare, from where you can
download a demo.
Thanks to everyone that answered my query. Thanks to Gordon Watts, Liam
Breck, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan for Info-Mac.
Pablo Roufogalis L.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:51:12 -0500
From: [email protected] (Pilfered Publishing TM)
Subject: Aaron 1.4.1 - no zoom?
I just upgraded my Aaron to 1.4.1 and now there is this annoying new
"zooming" feature that I would like to get rid of. This reminded me of an
old "stupid mac trick" from the old Mac Classic days.
Anyway- does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of this zooming
feature on window openings?
TIA-
Jeff Sass [email protected]
Computer Science Graduate Student Washington University in St. Louis
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:26:08 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Ammon Skidmore/Terminator Strip?
Friends:
I was wondering the whereabouts of Ammon Skidmore, author of the
fabulous Control Strip _Terminator Strip_. Formerly at ,
that address as well as the one on his Web site seem to no longer be
available.
Ammon -- if you are listening -- I want to pay my shareware fee!
Thanks for your help,
Clint
--
Clint MacDonald |
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:30:58 -0400
From: Heejoon Park
Subject: Any Limitation from PowerTower's Design?
One of the systems I am considering for purchase is Power Computing's
PowerTower series, especially PowerTower 180e. (Others are PowerMac 8500
and 7600.)
Since PowerTower series' design is supposedly based on PowerMac 7200, I am
wondering what design limitations there are for future upgrades and
compatibility.
I am aware of the lack of RAM interleaving and AV features. I also believe
that it does not offer SCSI-2 out of the box.
What other caveats are there that I need to consider before purchase?
Thanks in advance.
Heejoon
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 11:26:00 -0400
From: "jim (j.) blakeman"
Subject: Apple Citibank "Apple Bucks"...on the way out?
Here's something that I'd like to contribute to your listings:
Recently there has been some talk at www.macintosh.com that Citibank's
Apple card program may be on its last leg. I called Citibank & they said that
the program is currently "under review".
Rumor has is that "Apple Bucks" may stop accruing in October, and
all existing "Bucks" may need to be spent by the end of the year.
If this is true, its a real shame...its nice to earn 2-5% back on
credit card purchases, especially since the bucks can be used for any Apple
products (with Citibank's program, my Powerbook 5300cs was only $1300).
-James
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:35:57 -0400
From: [email protected] (John Rethorst)
Subject: Applescript for sys 7.1
>Though I have searched and searched I cannot seem to find a
>version of AppleScript that will work on my PB running system 7.1x.
The current version of Applescript, 1.1, runs fine on sys 7.1 (also 7.0 if
you install the Apple Event Manager extension as well). The basic
Applescript package, including the Applescript extension, Script Editor and
a bunch of osaxen, is free at:
ftp://ftpdev.info.apple.com/Developer_S ... pleScript/
AppleScript_Setup/Apple%27s_Scripting_Syste.sit.hqx
John R.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:11:40 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Bug in Mac Easy Open or Stuffit Expander?
> For anyone who missed my original Info-Mac posting, I'm experiencing a bug
> where a .sit file which has just been expanded remains selected when I
> single-click another file in the same window. This only seems to occur when
> Mac Easy Open is active, and I don't remember seeing it before I got
> Expander 4.01.
I had a similar problem, the details of which I now forget. But it went
away when I disabled Archive via Rename in True Finder Integration.
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:51:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Circuit Analysis Program
In a previous article, Erkuan Zhong wrote:
->
->Do anyone know any circuit analysis program that is designed for PowerMac?
->
->Pspice is a fine program, but doesn't work with my PowerMac. I am not
->interesting in some kind of software emulation program, it's way too
->slow.
->
->Thanks
->
There are few of them available, depending on what you need and amount
of money you are willing to spend.
There are few Berkely SPICE ports for Mac and PMac available in info-mac,
just check out /sci directory (or search hyper-archive for spice).
In commercial level, there are ICAPS by IntuSoft (http://www.intusoft.com),
which is Spice with schematic capture, scope and a lots of models. It's quite
good, but it has some interface quirks. That's what I'm using, anyway.
The other one is SMASH by Capilano Computing (http://www.capilano.com).
It's not exactly Spice, but true mixed-mode simulator that uses SPICE
sintax for analog part and event-driven simulator for digital part. It
doesn't have schematic capture, but Capilano makes and excellent schematic
capture programm, DesignWorks, which produces output that Smash can
understand (or so I'v been told). I looked at the demo and it seems to
be pretty good, but I never used it. Both of these programms are expensive,
profeccional-level simulators that can be used for real-life work. ICAPS
costs about $2000.00 for whole package (you can by spice part only for about
$500.00) and SMASH goes somwhere from $3000.00 to $10000.00, depending on your
needs.
There is also cheap (about $120.00 full, $40.00 student) Spice with
integrated schematic capture, mady by Biege Bag Software, called B^2 Spice
(B-square Spice). It is good for students and such, since it can't use
external models and input spice decks. They have www homepage, but i don't
remember html for it.
There are also Electronics Workbench, which is a decent schematic capture and
simulator programm, for about $400.00, although it is not nealry as powerfull
as SPICE or SMASH, but much easier to use. I don't know contact info for them,
but you should be able to get by doing Alta-Vista search. I believe that
there are HSpice for Mac, but i'm not sure about it.
Few years back, when I was looking for Mac-based simulator, I investigated
what was available, and found that there were quite a lot of choices I could
make. I went for ICAPS for simulator and DesignWorks for schematic capture.
I remember there were lot more available, but I forgot the names.
Hope that helps.
Mike.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:39:36 +0100
From: [email protected] (Sonia Kosak)
Subject: Eudora Light
I have been following the list's posting over the last few weeks and have
learnt a great deal,thank you very much.
My query is as follows. I use Eudora Light 1.5.4 for posting and receiving
e-mails. I have installed various versions of Eudora Light since I
connected to the net, always with the same results. It produces a
"settings.backup" file which is always damaged as indicated by the two
repair programs I use. I tend to delete every time I think about it,
because it tends to disrupt the proper functioning of my much beloved
Quadra 700. I am puzzled about this duplicate and why invariably it is
always damaged. I would appreciate your comments.
Best wishes to all
Sonia
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:43:13 -0400
From: "Norman R. Friedman"
Subject: Expresso
When I got my Mac Performa, one of the things installed was "Expresso". I
try to get rid of it by trashing everything I found with that name, in fact
"find" shows nothing with that title in the hard disk. Still the icon
appears on the top menu next to the question mark for the Mac help. Why and
how do I get rid of it.
Thanks in advance.
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:47:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: Filemaker Pro list
Is there a healthy FileMaker Pro list going out there? If not, if there is
interest, I will start one after I get the ISDN project completed.
Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:23:40 +0100
From: Gordon Byron
Subject: French grammatical CALL software?
The French Dept here are desperately seeking software (MAC) which can
offer grammatical testing/revision from elementary to intermediate level
in French for our macintosh CALL lab
provided it is not the Hull university GramEx program which is no
longer offered on the mac. all replies/advice sincerely appreciated
TIA
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:12:56 -0500
From: James Owens
Subject: Hard drive space problem
My PowerMac 7100/66 has a 250mb hard drive with about 8MB available unless
I boot without extensions. Without extensions the drive has about 33MB
available.
My guess is that the Memory control panel is responsible for this since the
difference is the value in the adjustable window of the Virtual Memory
section.
What I want is to have Virtual Memory on at the minimum value (1 megabyte)
since conventional wisdom is that, in general, this model will perform
better with Virtual Memory on. This would give me a total of 25MB: 24MB on
SIMMs and 1MB virtual. The virtual memory section says the hard drive has
33MB available on disk and 24MB available built-in. The window with the
arrow adjustment can be as low as 25M or as high as 33M.
About This Macintosh claims: Built-in Memory 24,576K, Total Memory 25,920K
and 25,920K used as RAM on Hard Drive (the name's been changed to protect
the guilty).
Either something is not right or I do not understand the Virtual Memory
settings. The extensions I use are pretty much standard Apple with a few
others thrown in. The non-Apple extensions have been on and off without
affecting the hard drive available memory.
Am I forced to turn off virtual memory?
Thanks in advance,
James Owens
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:53:07 -0500
From: Paul Kleeberg
Subject: Help with INIT and Extension owners
After years of Macintosh use I think I am finally reaching senility. I
used to know the purpose of all my INITs and I used to be able to identify
their owners. Alas I can no longer to a few.
Could someone please tell me the applications which require and the purpose =
of:
=87TSM Fix 1.01 (That is "Omega"TSM Fix 1.01)
ODBC SQL Server Setup (And several other ODBC extensions)
to name just a couple. *Better still* Is there a searchable database on
the net where these inits and their function are identified?
Paul Kleeberg
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 11:11:21 -0500
From: chaz
Subject: Hypercard hangup
> Why is it that my Hypercard 2.1 won't give me access to anything
>higher than user level 2? I have ignored hypercard until now, but
>when I got a "using hypercard" book from my local library, discovered
>that my copy is locked at user level "lame." Do I have to shell out
>the geld for the new version, or what?
I assume you're at the user settings card in the home stack, and don't
have buttons available for anything above 2.
Some versions of Hypercard had higher user levels hidden on that user
settings card.
In the message box, type "set userlevel to 5".
Show buttons on that card, and you should see a big white one covering up
the rest of the user levels. Delete it. Voila.
If that's not the problem, then apparently you have a copy of Hypercard
Player, and in that case, the answer to your last question is "Yes.".
chazl
08.28.96
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 03:58:27 GMT
From: [email protected] (Richard Mead)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #198
Anyone know of the best place to get "Basic" or "Visual Basic" software
to program a Newton 120 PDA?
Any help would be appreciated!
R.Mead
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 22:37:21 CDT
From: "jacob reichbart"
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #198
on Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:03, [email protected] (Rose Stasuk)
wrote:
>snipNow when I open a connection, as soon as dialing begins, I get
>a warning message which comes up over the PPP status window
>and states:
> !There was a problem with the modem. You might try
> turning the modem off then on again and clicking "Retry".
>snip
Subject: LW8.4 and IIci
Folk, a puzzlement that maybe y'all can help with.
I snagged the new LaserWriter 8.4 driver (all five HD floppies worth)
and installed it on my home IIci and my office Q650/PPC. I tend to let
myself be the guinea pig before I foist new stuff on colleagues/spouse.
Saves wear and tear on my body.
I've seen no problems with the new driver on my office machine ('cept
the multiple-screen PRINT dialog seems designed by MicroSoft), but it
is for sure goofy on the IIci. Both run Sys 7.5.3r2. At home it looks
like it prints, but something gets to the LaserWriter IIf at random.
First time is usually not the charm. Second time is usually the charm.
I'd been thinking I'd forgotten something or done something silly like
pressing cancel instead of print. Old folks do that. Leslye noticed the
same thing when she was on my machine (It's connected to the world. Hers
isn't), so I started checking for oddities. If I choose good-ole-LW
instead of LW8, no problem, mon. I suspect the 8.4 driver. I switch back
to LW 8.3.3 and all is hunky dory again.
This is depressing. Despite my experience, I still expect Apple to be
backward compatible in its wonderful new toys. I suspect I did something
terribly stupid and deserve to die. Y'all have any thoughts?
Al Bloom
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Date: 29 Aug 1996 11:58:44 +0000
From: [email protected] (Mephistophilis)
Subject: Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
I want to buy at least one good Mac resource book pitched at the
sort of person who knows little about electronics or computing
but is nontheless a pretty sophisticated Mac user (i.e. me). The
ideal book should contain as much sort-out-your-own-disaster
advice as possible. (God knows I've needed a lot of that in the
past year or so and though I'd like to think that my troubles are
over with an imminent change-over to a Power Mac 8200 I'm
not holding my breath). The two possibilities that I know of are
the Mac Bible and Hayden's Maclopedia. I gather that the latter
is up to date with System 7.5.3 - but the publisher's data also
says it (the book) can tell you who Steve Jobs is - which sounds
a little Mac-for-dummiesish. Advice/comments on these - or
any other - possibilities would be gratefully received.
TIA -
Fergus Lalor
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:19:06 +0000
From: Richard Brook
Subject: MAC Point of Sale
RE: Macintosh Point of Sale Software for a KINKOS style retail print
shop.
I need a program to run a Kinkos style operation. The LAN will have 7
MACs, 1 PC, and three printers on an Ethernet Network.
The program will need to track a customers time on and off any given
work station, it must have the ability to track all stations at the same
time (also need to think of future growth). Computer time will need to
tracked on a per minuet basis with a different price for design stations
and for word processing stations
The program will also need to track the printer output of each work
station, which printer was used, what type of print, different prices
will be charged for the type of print, type of paper, and size of print.
The program will then need to able to produce an invoice for the time on
the work station as well as the prints made from that work station.
I would like to administer this system from a MAC if possible, but we
would consider administering from a PC provided that we can have all of
our tracking and invoice features available for the MAC computers as
well.
I am looking for commercially available software if possable. I would
appreciate it if you could get back to me as soon as possible with any
possible sollutions and pricing you might have.
Truly,
Richard Brook
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:32:04 -0700
From: [email protected] (Greg Lyzenga)
Subject: Mystery Extensions (Q)
I've found a couple of extensions in my system folder (7.5.3 update 2 on a
PowerMac 6100/60) that I don't remember installing, and I have no idea what
they do. I was hoping that some kind person might clue me in.
The first is a small (3K) extension called KarmaExtension. It has no
distinctive icon, and neither 'Get Info' nor ResEdit yield any information
whatsoever about it's developer, origin or purpose. Apple extensions
usually have some kind of copyright notice at least. What is this thing?
The second is a 40K extension called ASFU Fixer. It seems to have been
written by GDT Softworks, which is a company that sells, among other
things, Mac printer and networking software. However, I have no memory of
having ever bought any product of theirs, and I have no idea what this
extension does, other than display a rather strange animated icon during
startup.
Any info on either of these? Thanks.
- Greg Lyzenga, Dept. of Physics, Harvey Mudd College
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:46:33 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: On Location and WordPerfect files (solved)
> > Does anyone have On Location 2.01 and WordPerfect 3.x? If so, do your
> > indexes include the text of WordPerfect files? I am trying to figure out
> > whether I need a different translator or what?
>
> Look in your System folder for a file called
> "On Location File Kinds". It can be opened and
> edited with any ordinary text editor to specify
> what Mac file types and creators will be indexed
> by On Location (which, incidentally, continues to
> be a great program, even though it seems to have
> been orphaned by ON Technology so far as I know).
This solved the problem. I had to change the creator type for the
WordPerfect files to WPC3. Thanks much!
Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc.
713-974-2434 (f) 713-974-5248
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:33:02 -0900
From: "N. Esteban"
Subject: Open Transport 1.1
I have Open Transport 1.08 and would like to use 1.1.1 b7, which tells
me that I need OT 1.1 in order to install it. I understand 1.1.1 b7
fixes the memory fragmentation problems that I've been experiencing on
my 7200......help! I can't seem to find 1.1. I already have 1.1.1b7
Thank You
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:43:57 +0900
From: [email protected] (Darryl McGrath)
Subject: Quadra 630 and external HD
I have a Quadra 630 and until recently, I was using an external 500Mb APS
hard disk. I also have a Panasonic 4x CD-ROM and a zip drive on the SCSI
chain (the APS drive is at the end of the chain).The combination seemed to
work well for a short time, and then I noticed that for no reason the APS
drive light would go on and it sounded like the disk was being accessed
even though I wasn't using any apps or accessing any files on the APS
drive. It didn't seem to cause a problem, so I didn't worry about it. Then
the problem got worse. The same sudden access of the APS drive, only now
the drive light would stay on and the APS drive would spin down and lock up
the Quadra. I'd have to restart. Eventually the APS drive seemed to crash
completely, and just wouldn't run with the Quadra anymore. I assumed it was
dead.
I've since bought a Logitec 1Gb drive and now the same thing is starting to
happen! What on earth is wrong? I can only assume now that it is some kind
of problem with the SCSI bus. I hope someone out there has the answer. I
don't want another dead drive. Thanks.
Darryl McGrath ([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:16:54 -0400
From: [email protected] (Stephen C. Camidge)
Subject: Quickbooks 4.0 review
My review of Quickbooks 4.0 is out. If you want to see it, it is referenced
on my web page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/5682
Steve
Stephen C. Camidge [email protected]
RR #1, Desboro, Ontario N0H 1K0 Canada (519) 363-3912
For NHL newslinks see my URL:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/5682
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:44:13 +0200
From: Peter Van Avermaet
Subject: receiving this digest in GroupWise - save to text
I receive this digest in out company's GroupWise mail system - through an
SMTP-to-GroupWise gateway.
All parts (the sender, the gateway, the 'user agent') work very well together,
and GroupWise recognizes the digest as a multipart message, and shows me each
article separately.
However, I would rather download the entire digest, take it home, and read it
in
a digest-browser (Easy View) on my Mac.
I know how I can extract an article to file (in fact, any part of a message).
Can anybody tell me how to extract the entire digest in one operation ? While I
am at it, can anybody tell me how to extract whatever as a text file ? (I
currently extract as a WordPerfect doc, which I import into MS Word and 'save
as' 'text with line-breaks'.)
Thank you, Peter Van Avermaet
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 07:16:21 -0700
From: Susan Lizza
Subject: request for info on sound manager
Is it possible to get sound manager or an equivalent as freeware?
I've been attempting to get audio into my web browsing, and am fairly
new at this. Any assistance you can give is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:49:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (james f. palmer)
Subject: SA to Europe - Voltage converter
Silversteins write: . . .
>At first I was told that I should buy a universal converter, then an adapter,
>but when I tried to get a specific part number or specifications,
>
>I could use a 220 to 110 transformer but I am worried that it may not be
>appropriate for such equipment (perhaps the frequency is also important?).
I went through this with a Zip drive last fall. It is difficult to find a
transformer that supplies sufficient power to drive the motor within needed
tollerances (consummer transformers are generally used for radios and low
poer electronics). Iomega had a universal transformer for the Zip drive
that cost an extra $50. I wish I had bought it in the US. Once in Europe,
Iomega has several tech support offices and I had to call around for help.
I eventaully purchased a European power supply from Iomega in Germany, but
it took me 4 weeks of correspondence and call. I also paid a premium. It
worked well once it was set up.
Jim Palmer, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:50:49 -0500
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: Shrinking font problem....
> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:06:18 -0800
> From: [email protected] (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)
>
> I am having a very unique (to me) experience with the System version of
> the
> Chicago font that is used for the Apple menu items, Apple menu bar
> across
> the desktop, and all other places where this bold version of the Chicago
> font is used. Every once in a while (not consistent and not on a daily
> basis), usually when I am in Eudora and printing a message, the size of
> the
> font shrinks dramatically in these places and turns non-bold. Only
> restarting the system gets rid of it. I've checked for corruption of
> the
> Chicago font and Font Box says it is not corrupted. What could be
> causing
> this?
I used to encounter it routinely with Netscape 1.1N under System 7.5.1 and
7.5.3. Since updating Netscape, I haven't encountered it any more.
Hope this helps. Cheers,
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 07:56:10 +0200
From: [email protected]
Subject: Simpletext
I would be most grateful if anybody has any ideas - every time I start up
my Mac launches Simpletext with a message saying >.
I have tried Norton, rebuilding the desktop etc...
I have about 70 extensions and am running Dark side of the Mac and stickies
as startup items. I have a Powerbook 5300cs 16/800.
Please EMail me at [email protected].
TIA
Bob Cooke
National Accountant
Concern Mozambique
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 13:37:20 +0200
From: "Guenther"
Subject: Using the "@" on a German keyboard
I can not believe it, still so many good ideas how to simply input "@" on
the German keyboard. Look in the computer manuals and play with "Key Caps"
in the apple menu. For those, who have problems: Not all fonts show "@". The
easiest way: Use "Option-Shift-1" and you are right there.
Guenther Fischer
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:48:03 -0400
From: Thomas Waterbury Davis
Subject: WANTED: MS Flight Simulator for Mac scenery
Mac enthusiasts,
I need your help. I have been unable to locate a vendor that is still in
existence that makes scenery files for Microsoft's Flight Simulator 4.0 for
Macintosh. Microsoft's product sales staff have been unable to give me a
number for a company that has not gone out of business (Mallard Direct) or
been bought out by Microsoft (BAO Publishing). Please email me with info on
a vendor making such a product.
Sincerely,
-Tom Davis
Thomas Waterbury Davis - x6066 - [email protected] - http://www.jax.org/~twd/
Jackson Laboratory Computing Services - http://anita.jax.org/jax/jlcs/
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:28:56 -0700
From: Peter Clarke
Subject: WaterMark program questions
can anyone recommend a good program that will allow MS Word 6.1 users to add a
watermark (ie Draft in big letters) anywhwere in a page.
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