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Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#343/02-Sep-96
(A) Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
(Q) Daystar Mac II Accelerator in a IIcx?
(Q) SIMM expander card for Q605?
[A] Buzzing sound in PM 7200
[A] Hard Disk Catalog Problem (sorta)
[A] Hard drive space problem
[Q] Applescript to switch monitor resolution?
[Q] Can I simulate a 'net session?
[Q] Posting binaries?
Apple Fax
AppleScript Guide
AppleVision 1710AV question
backup mac->unix->tape [Q]
Consultants and ISP's
drag and drop into apple menu
Finder error Type 10
FreePPP 2.5v2
HD space - VM problem solved!
Info-Mac Digest V14 #202 (2 msgs)
InfoMac digest dashes [A}
Internal SCSI ID jumper stumper
ISDN experiences needed.. (2 msgs)
LW 8.4
Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
Navigator 3.0 - Microsoft's secret weapon? (correction)
Netscape question AND problem with icons
Now's Startup Manager
Plaintalk on a 5300c?
Putting strange accents in a Word doc [A}
question
Russian language course on CD-ROM
Severe Apple monitor problems; Apple's policy is killing me
Smart Scrolls
Speech Recognition
Speed Disk
Supra FaxModems
Typist software
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 20:18:18 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#343/02-Sep-96
TidBITS#343/02-Sep-96
This issue of TidBITS goes straight for your synapses, with essays on
whether Apple and Be have a future together and the increasing complexities
involved in maintaining a Mac. Adam weighs in with a glowing review of Web
Ninja, Tonya writes about the new sixth edition of the Macintosh Bible, and
we bring you news about Internet Config 1.3, Netscape Navigator for
Cyberdog, OpenDoc 1.1, and numerous personal Web servers.
Topics:
MailBITS/02-Sep-96
There Be Rumors in Them Thar Hills
Peachpit Updates the Bible
Attack of the Web Ninja
Musing About Ease of Use
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-343.etx; 28K]
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 18:06:59 -0500
From: [email protected] (Morethanone Kalar)
Subject: (A) Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
[email protected] (Mephistophilis) wrote:
> I want to buy at least one good Mac resource book....The ideal book
> should contain as much sort-out-your-own-disaster
> advice as possible....The two possibilities that I know of are
> the Mac Bible and Hayden's Maclopedia.
Fergus, check out "Macworld Macintosh Secrets" by Pogue and Schorr
(IDG Books), now in its 3rd edition I believe. This bulky tome has
displaced the Bible in my scriptorium. Came (comes?) with a selection
of better shareware. Common and not-so-common problems of most
kinds are addressed efficiently, while keeping a sense of humor about
it all, which has to be the best advice.
-- Tony
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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 17:29:58 -0400
From: "Michael E. Grabenstein"
Subject: (Q) Daystar Mac II Accelerator in a IIcx?
I have a 33mhtz accelerator for a Mac II, I would like to put in a
IIcx. Can I do this?
Anyone done it?
Thanks,
Mike, [email protected]
#include /* Sanad Support Technologies */
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 00:40:19 PDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: (Q) SIMM expander card for Q605?
I'm looking for a SIMM memory expansion card for my Quadra 605 (and for the 2
Q605s used by the
Youth Choir where my wife works).
I've seen extension cards for PCs which fit in an existing SIMM slot and allow
you to put two (or
four SIMMs in them). I realize that the Q605 SIMM slot is angled and so the
card
would have to
have sockets which are also angled to allow the SIMMS to fit in the case.
Since the Q605 has only 1 slot, was hoping someone out there can point me to a
source for a card
which would allow me to add two SIMMs in the machine.
/Leigh
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:09:33 -0400
From: Aaron Vegh
Subject: [A] Buzzing sound in PM 7200
Hello,
A while back I posted a question regarding the annoying buzzing sound that
comes from the hard drive of the Powre Mac 7200s. I received a varied
number of responses/solutions to the problem, but ended up with my own,
which seems to have worked.
The Quantum Fireball 1.2 GB drives which ship with these models tend to
spin pretty fast. So fast, in fact, that they cause a vibration in the case
of the CPU. When there's no monitor sitting on top of the CPU (as in my
case, and many others with whom I've spoken) the case produces a most
undesirable buzzing sound. By pressing down on the case with my hand I was
able to stop the buzzing. But then it was kinda hard getting anything done.
The solution: I opened up the case and was struck with a rather insane
idea. If there was some kind of insulator between the hard drive and the
case, it would stop the vibration, n'est pas? So I took the CD-ROM slip
that ships with the Power Mac (the plastic envelope that the CD ships in)
and cut away the plastic with a knife. That left me with a nice square
piece of cottony material. I folded it up into quarters, and sat it on the
hard drive, then slipped the case back on over it. Now there is no more
buzzing!!!! And the greatest thing is, you have the materials to do it
right now!!!
If you've got any questions, just ask.
Aaron.
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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 13:11:22 +0200
From: [email protected] (Marten Kooistra)
Subject: [A] Hard Disk Catalog Problem (sorta)
Hi all, and John Steele,
John, I'm sorry I have to say this but the only solution to your disk
catalog woes is 1) Backup 2) Reformat 3) Reinstall. Disk First Aid (DFA)
and Norton Disk Doctor (NDD) claim to be able to repair a lot of things but
generally don't. Let me illustrate by telling you how I spent the weekend
of the 24th (all of it, I might add).
First of all I want to warn everyone that Netscape Navigator, and
presumably all other browsers, mess up your disk catalog sooner or later.
Netscape claims all apps can do that to you, but that Navigator is more
prone to do it because it uses your disk quite often. And that they're just
a little bit sorry but can't do anything about it. I say the solution is to
write an app that doesn't crash, as catalogs don't mess up by accident.
*That* is the real reason why Navigator messes up your disk, and the reason
why I still use Netscape 1.1N, which is OK as long as I stay off the
Microsoft site (they want me to use IE or what?). I think I've tackled this
problem once and for all (thanks to info-mac; can't remember who posted
this tip the first time) by creating an extra partition on my hard disk. I
use it only for VM storage and the Netscape Cache folder. So if anything
happens to it all I have to do is initialize that partition, which is a
breeze because it has no real data on it.
My problems started a few months ago when I ran DFA and it reported
"invalid sibling link, 4,1203" quite early in the process without looking
any further. Silly me tried to fix this problem which DFA and NDD couldn't
fix by compressing most files on my HD into one Compactor file, thinking:
"If it's only one file, there are no siblings, so the problem must go
away". Well, think again. I ended up with a Netscape Cache folder that
appeared empty but about which the trash reported that it had 182 files in
it; and it couldn't be thrown away. After a few rounds of NDD and DFA I
could get rid of the folder, but these catalog errors have a habit of
sticking and there's no telling where they went.
Warning: certain catalog errors (at least) piggy-back right along when you
copy a folder that has problems to another disk. I even saw problems when I
Compacted a malicious folder, moved the .cpt file to another disk, and then
extracted to yet another disk. These things are vicious! The full extent
(no pun intended) of the problem became clear when I tried to backup my
drive so I could reformat. I thought I had a bad Zip cartridge at first. My
Mac "couldn't continue copying because of a disk error". After a lot of
messing about it became clear the disk error was on the Hard disk (thanks
Apple, for such enlightning error messages). Sometimes my Mac would even
crash while trying to copy a folder. It took two days to identify the
culprit files/folders and although in the end all I really lost was a
postscript font, I know I have to be more careful in the future. Netscape
will not touch my startup disk ever again.
Sorry John, I can't make it any easier.
By the way, has anyone seen this before: My Mac would crash on startup if I
connected the Zip drive with termination ON. My whole SCSI 'chain' is that
Zip and an internal Quantum 540 Lightning (terminated). Turning termination
OFF on the Zip worked like a charm during that full-weekend backup. Any
takers?
-Marten Kooistra
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:09:47 -0500
From: Butch Kemper
Subject: [A] Hard drive space problem
Robert E. Winston wrote:
> At 8:12 PM -0400 8/28/96, James Owens wrote:
> > 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)
>
> The problem is that Apple VM uses a swap file on the drive that is equal
>to RAM
> + VM. So, if you have 24MB RAM plus you set VM to 1MB, 25MB of hard disk
space
> is consumed.
>
The VM swap file size is ALWAYS the same as VM or virtual memory which in
this case is 25MB. The size of RAM or real memory is not used in the
calculation of the VM swap file size, just the size of the VM.
Butch
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 96 16:40:49 -0000
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [Q] Applescript to switch monitor resolution?
Greetings all. I wonder if anyone knows how I can write an Apple script
that will
switch monitor resolution for me (not monitor depth) from 680x480 to
600x800.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Romulo Romero
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 04:30:49 -0400
From: David Yeargin
Subject: [Q] Can I simulate a 'net session?
I need to give a quick presentation showing off a few web sites,
and for convenience, I'd like to do it without having to go online at
the time. Can I capture web pages (with full formatting and
graphics, rather than just text and seperate GIF files) ahead of
time and then display them in a Netscape (or similar) window?
Can I retain any links that may exist between these pages? A
shareware program is fine, if that's what I need. FWIW, I'm using a
68030 Mac IIsi and Netscape 2.0.
Tremendous gratitude to anyone who can help.
David Yeargin
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 96 17:25:46 -0000
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [Q] Posting binaries?
Greetings all.
I use Newswatcher to read usenet news. However, (unless I missed
something)
it does not let me post binaries. Is there a way to post binaries from
my Mac?
Thanks.
Romulo Romero [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:04:17 -0500
From: [email protected] (Tristan Meisters)
Subject: Apple Fax
Hello All ! The other day I was in the computer store playing with a
Preforma 6400 (nice machine for multimedia by the way) that they had just
got in and while on there I noticed that they had a piece of fax software
on there called Apple Fax . Now when I asked the clerk he said that it
comes with system 7.5.3 . Well I am running 7.5.3 and have never seen it
and he was no help in telling where else I could find it . So , I would
much appreciate it if someone here could tell me where I can get it , is it
on the apple site some place ? Thanks in advance for the help .
cheers Tristan
Tristan Meisters
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 05:59:32 +0000
From: [email protected] (Dewey Markham, Jr.)
Subject: AppleScript Guide
Folks,
I'm looking for the Apple document "Getting Started with
AppleScript" (probably in Acrobat format). Can't find it anywhere on their
web or ftp site, but I figure it must be there somewhere--if it is an
online publication, that is, something of which I'm not at all certain
about. Can anyone please point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Dewey
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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 23:32:08 +0100
From: Greg Fudala
Subject: AppleVision 1710AV question
I have an AppleVision 1710AV monitor hooked up to my Power Mac 6100/60.
In order to change resolutions (640x480 and 832x624) on the fly, the
AppleVision software that came with the monitor must be loaded. This
includes the Display Enabler, and the AppleVision extension itself.
The thing is, the AppleVision extension annoys me! First of all, it
takes up like 300k or so of memory. Second of all, the volume/brightness
etc. controls are routed through the software, so if I'm playing a game
like Doom which is not yielding the CPU to other processes, then the
volume control does nothing, but cache in the keyboard buffer and not
take effect until the game releases the CPU. This is a pain when I want
to turn down the volume late at night.
So, what I do is not load the AppleVision software at all, and use the
monitor's own hardware for controls. This works fine, but the problem is
that I can't switch resolutions on the fly. The "Monitors" control panel
simply doesn't list all the possible resolutions unless the damn
AppleVision extension is loaded.
Does anyone know of any way to allow me to switch resolutions without
loading the AppleVision extension?
Greg
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 16:27:02 +0200
From: [email protected] (Edward C Hoenkamp)
Subject: backup mac->unix->tape [Q]
I have a DAT tape connected to a Unix (running CAP). Anyone who knows (i.e.
has done this) how to backup the Mac file system in one go? My file system
is 700Mb and Unix as about 200Mb free disk space.
Thank you very much, Edward.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 16:56:12 -0400
From: Dave Cooper
Subject: Consultants and ISP's
Hi there,
I work for a Mac-only consulting firm in Michigan. One of our clients
is looking for both consultants and also ISP's for some of it's
employees that work at various places around the country. I'm
wondering if I could get some suggestions on highly reputable
consultants and ISP's in the following cities.
1. Sante Fe, N.M. Consultant and ISP (December)-for ISP
2. Roanoke, V.A. Consultant only
3. Dayton, O.H. Consultant and ISP
4. Lansing, M.I Consultant and ISP
Consultants, please take note that we are not talking about a great
deal of work here. We are talking about one individual at home who
may only need help a few times a year.
ISP's need to have the following qualifications:
1.Offer an unlimited access time account with a monthly cost of >
Thank you all very much,
Dave Cooper
Mac Vision
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:04:23 -0500
From: [email protected] (Tristan Meisters)
Subject: drag and drop into apple menu
Hello All ! I was wondering if anyone on here knew of a piece of shareware
or freeware which worked like now menus and allowed me to drap files into
folders in the Apple menu . I would use Now menus but it uses too much ram
for my little machine , does anyone have any suggestions . Thanks in
advance .
cheers Tristan
Tristan Meisters
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 18:39:04 -0500
From: Paul Kleeberg
Subject: Finder error Type 10
I am getting a finder error type 10 sometime after startup and it occurs
after startup is complete and appears to occur right when filesharing is
finished doing its thing. Any ideas? I have a total of 5 gigs of drive
space in 5 partitions and maybe close to 5 or 6 thousand files. Am I
hitting a ceiling in the finder?
What is my problem?
Is there a site or shareware package where these error types are explained?
(I used to have a DA that explained most system errors for 7.0)
Paul
P.S. I turned off filesharing and it hasn't frozen on me yet!
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:18:36 -0700
From: [email protected] (Jim Tanner)
Subject: FreePPP 2.5v2
>I recently downloaded FreePPP 2.5v2 from the Tidbits archive--to replace
>>FreePPP 1.0.5 on my LCIII (030, 8MB RAM, Ram Doubler). When I try to run
>the >installer, it checks my system, then, as it is supposedly installing
>reference >material, it hangs up, necessitating a "force quit." The
>destination I've >specified is my internal 160 MB hard drive, where the
>system folder resides. I >also have an external 1 GB drive, divided into 4
>partitions.
>Has anyone else had a problem with this? Any idea what's wrong?
After sending this message yesterday, I realize I should have added that
I'm running System 7.5.3, with Open Transport 1.1 and MacTCP 2.0.6.
Jim Tanner
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:50:39 -0500
From: James Owens
Subject: HD space - VM problem solved!
Thanks to all who replied to my query. I got many, many answers, all the
same, all correct. There must be a FAQ I failed to read that has the
answer since I feel like someone who installed lots of RAM but did not turn
on 32-bit memory.
With Virtual Memory on and set at 1MB, my hard drive set aside 25MB.
Pat Ellis (and 12 others) sent me this information:
>Yes, Apple's Virtual Memory scheme maps your *entire* RAM onto your hard
>drive -- that way there is a one-to-one correspondence between the RAM
>memory and the virtual memory and there is no chance for software
>confusion.
Two people added in response to this part of my question:
>>since conventional wisdom is that, in general, this model will perform
>>better with Virtual Memory on.
that
>but note that virtual memory will *not* make your machine "perform better".
>it will only make your powerPC-native applications use less memory. at
>the same time, it will actually slow your computer down by causing memory
>to be swapped from disk to RAM. if you don't need more that 24 megs,
>turning off virtual memory is a Good Idea.
>
>Geoff Spear
Thanks again to you all,
Jim Owens
------------------------------
Date: 3 Sep 1996 04:51:25 -0400
From: "Daitaro Hagihara"
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #202
I am with you 100% on this one, Graeme. $100 million investment in Java? =
Better spend on fiber-optic utilities or Galium-powered faster switching =
devices.
------ From: [email protected], Tue, Sep 3, 1996 ------
Yes, I know you get Java in NN3.0 (and the new QT plug-in) but has anyone
actually encountered a *useful* use of Java on the web yet?
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Date: 3 Sep 1996 05:37:08 -0400
From: "Daitaro Hagihara"
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #202
This message is for Mail*Link PT/Internet users. I haven't seen the info =
I am about to write in the past 30 or so digests, so here it is.
Mail*Link is an e-mail program from Apple (formerly from StarNine) and =
uses PowerTalk to take advantage of desktop mailboxes. It has an option =
to use StuffIt Engine extension (which come with StuffIt w/EE 3.5.2) to =
compress/decompress attachments. If you experience a crash using this =
option (which I do), then use ResEdit to open :System =
Folder:Extensions:Mail*Link PT/INET and increase the SIZE -1's Size from =
409600 to something like 509600, an increase of 100KB (approximately). =
This solves the problem. With this option enabled, three encoding =
formats, MIME, uuencode, and binhex, are automatically decoded. And if =
the incoming mail has an attachment as the same format as you have set =
(e.g., mine is StuffIt+AppleDouble+MIME), then the attachment will be =
decoded completely to its original file.
------------------------------
Date: 3 Sep 1996 12:58:21 -0400
From: "Peter Jorgensen"
Subject: InfoMac digest dashes [A}
Elliot Bennett wrote:
>As a final note, I also receive the Info-Labview daily digests but these =
>seem unaffected (they come through just fine). I'm wondering if it doesn'=
>t have something to do with MIME encoding but this is really out of my =
>realm.
>
>Thanks MUCH in advance,
>Elliot Bennett
>Cologne, Germany
It's possible that it's because you haven't told the listserv to "set
info-mac shorthdr".
I had to do this when the digests went to MIME encoding. It works for me.
Peter Jorgensen
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 10:17:10 -0500
From: chaz
Subject: Internal SCSI ID jumper stumper
>one is supposed to jump the FK pins at all times.
Well, I can't find any information about "FK" jumpers, but all the
Quantum 1-gig drives I have here have a "PK" pair. this stands for
"Park", and is just a place to store a spare jumper.
>Anyone got a clue about these WS/EP/SS pins?
Here's some info from http://www.quantum.com/
***
ProDrive 40/80S
Jumper Definitions
Table 1
Jumper Setting Description
EP OFF Parity disabled
ON Parity enabled
WS OFF Wait Spin disabled
ON Wait Spin enabled
SS OFF Self Seek disabled
ON Self Seek enabled
A0
A1
A2 SCSI ID
Termination Resistors
One of the requirements of the SCSI bus is that it be properly
terminated. If more than one SCSI device is connected to the host, the
last device on each end of the bus must be terminated. The ProDrive disk
drive utilizes three (3) Terminating Resistor packs, when installed
these resistors enable termination on the SCSI bus. With the Terminating
Resistor packs removed, bus termination is disabled.
At the factory, Quantum configures the ProDrive 40/80S hard disk drive
with termination enabled; that is, all three resistor packs are
installed. To disable termination, remove the Terminating Resistor
packs.
Enable Parity (EP) Jumper
The Enable Parity (EP) jumper is used to set the Parity option on the
drive. With parity checking enabled (EP installed), the drive performs
parity checking. With parity checking disabled (EP removed), the drive
continues to generate parity information, but does not perform parity
checking.
At the factory, Quantum configures the ProDrive 40/80S hard disk drive
with the EP jumper in place.
SCSI-Bus Device Identification (A0 - A2) Jumpers
Used in combination, the jumper settings across pins A2, A1 and A0
determine the ProDrive 40/80S hard disk drive's SCSI-bus device I.D. By
default, Quantum configures the drive with a SCSI ID of 6; that is, with
jumpers installed across the pins labeled A2 and A1, and no jumpers
installed across pins labeled A0.
To assign a different SCSI ID, change the jumper settings as shown in
Table 2.
Wait Spin (WS) Jumper
With the Wait/Spin (WS) jumper disabled, at power on or reset, the drive
motor starts to spin automatically, and the drive prepares itself to
perform read or write operations without the need for a start command.
At a power on or reset, with the Wait/Spin jumper enabled, the host must
send a START/STOP UNIT command to activate the drive motor for read or
write operations. In addition, with the W/S jumper enabled, the drive
performs power sequencing to prevent an overload of the host's power
supply due to simultaneous, peak start-up current demands from multiple
devices.
At the factory, Quantum configures the ProDrive 40/80S hard disk drive
with the Wait/Spin jumper disabled; that is, without a jumper installed
across the pins labeled WS. To enable Wait/Spin, install a jumper across
the pins labeled WS.
Self Seek (SS) Jumper
The Self Seek (SS) jumper is used to place the drive in a test mode at
start up. This will inhibit the drive from normal operation and is for
factory use only.
At the factory, Quantum configures the ProDrive 40/80S hard disk drive
with no jumper in place.
***
Hope this helps.
chazl
09.03.96
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:50:57 -0400
From: Pieter Stouten
Subject: ISDN experiences needed..
At 11:53 -0400 96/08/31, Scott Besman wrote:
>I have just "acheived" ISDN with the Motorola BitSURFER Pro... My research
>led me to that choice for a variety of reasons as follows:
>
> [...]
>
>My personal setup is a Performa 640CD DOS which does not have a high speed
>serial port, so I am limited to "only" 57,600 bps access - twice as fast as
>my 28.8 connection was... but access to my ISP is MUCH more reliable and
>almost IMMEDIATE (10 seconds tops).
>
I have an Ascend P25, which is a terminal adapter and *NOT* a modem like
the Bitsurfer Pro. It connects straight to the ethernet port. It also has
two POTS ports.
Also, I would not call 10 seconds immediate. I have a fully established
connection generally within a second.
I have been very happy with the P25.
Pieter Stouten
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 00:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Scott Besman)
Subject: ISDN experiences needed..
>At 11:53 -0400 96/08/31, Scott Besman wrote:
>
>>I have just "acheived" ISDN with the Motorola BitSURFER Pro... My research
>>led me to that choice for a variety of reasons as follows:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>My personal setup is a Performa 640CD DOS which does not have a high speed
>>serial port, so I am limited to "only" 57,600 bps access - twice as fast as
>>my 28.8 connection was... but access to my ISP is MUCH more reliable and
>>almost IMMEDIATE (10 seconds tops).
>>
>I have an Ascend P25, which is a terminal adapter and *NOT* a modem like
>the Bitsurfer Pro. It connects straight to the ethernet port. It also has
>two POTS ports.
The BitSURFER Pro is definitely a "terminal adapter" and *NOT* a modem...
"Modems" don't talk digital ISDN!... What's special about your Ascend P25
is its ethernet to ISDN routing capabilities...
>
>Also, I would not call 10 seconds immediate. I have a fully established
>connection generally within a second.
>
Agreed... I don't consider up to 10 seconds connection time really
"immediate" either, in fact it's usually closer to 8 seconds... however,
nowhere near the 1 or 2 seconds I was expecting and which you have
experienced... Truthfully, I am more impressed with the reliability of the
connections...
>I have been very happy with the P25.
>
>Pieter Stouten
I did not realize that there was a way to directly connect my Mac via
ethernet to ISDN... certainly none of the "experts" I've been talking to
have pointed out the possibility of connecting direct to the internet by
way of an ethernet/ISDN router/adapter thereby bypassing the limitations of
my mac's serial port speeds... Other issues would include relative cost
($350+ for BitSURFER/$550 for Ascend Pipeline 25-Px), and possibly limits
associated with the bus speed of my mac itself (I am told that this is a
factor? ...).
Obviously the possibility of not having to use either of my serial ports
for internet access is very inviting... Combine that with my dream of
really high speed access and I know that I will soon be shelling out for an
"upgrade" REAL SOON NOW -:)
By the way, according to Ascend's web site you can upgrade your P25 to
25-Px with just a download... check it out.
Scott Besman
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:58:46 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: LW 8.4
> 'cept
> the multiple-screen PRINT dialog [in LW driver 8.4] seems designed by
>MicroSoft
Al is not joking. I took one look at it and immediately switched back to
HP's own driver for my LJ4M. Desktop printers are useful, tho'.
Does anyone *prefer* the new print dialog to the old one? If not, Apple
should be told.
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 14:18:01 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Maclopedia/Mac Bible or ... ? Which to buy?
From: [email protected] (Mephistophilis)
>>>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.
Subject: Navigator 3.0 - Microsoft's secret weapon? (correction)
I hope below that I have merely made my values clear and that there is
no misunderstanding that I am making a prescription for others values. I
am not. As Robert Heinlein said, human values must differ or free trade
couldn't exist.
Graeme Forbes wrote in im 202 :
>Running under Open Transport 1.1, Navigator 3.0 does not release its 7MB+
>to other applications when it quits - you have to reboot the computer.
I did an experiment and merely had to close ppp connection to get a
huge chunk of memory back. So, was it netscape that held onto memory or
something about ppp that held on?
Since I've already incurred the cost of a large amount of ram to fool
with voices in studio vision pro, what to some is a cost of netscape 3.0
is an asset to me. I boosted to 16 meg allocation to netscape 3.0 on his
post happily.
I'm keeping netscape 3.0 because I like to fool with such confusions.
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Roche
Subject: Netscape question AND problem with icons
Hi folks,
First of all, I'll get to my most serious question... lately, SOME of the
icons on my hard drive
and ZIP drive, they lose their original icons and are replaced by a
multi-colored "mess" of seemingly
random pixels...
I've done the following as an attempt to fix the (so far) harmlessly
annoying problem :
1) Re-installed System 7.5.3 after having run Disk Doctor (Apple and Norton
Utils, both of which found
minor errors...and fixed them...)
2) Rebuilt the desktop...
3) Zapped the PRAM
In spite of these measures, some icons still become goofy and
multi-colored... Not all, just a few...
I can't find any pattern as to WHICH icons are doing this...
Does anyone recognize this strange affliction? And if so, is there anything
I can do to fix things?
Also, a Netscape question...
I know that Netscape 3.0 is Java-enabled (or something like that), but I've
gone to a few Java sites
and have yet to see any evidence of WHAT it is that Java does... Sometimes
the screen tells me that
I should see a bouncing ball or something silly ,but I just don't see
anything other than those words..
Can someone give me a list of Java sites to test out my new 3.0 update? Or
can someone tell me if
Java requires special setup or processing power...
I'm totally ignorant to the Java craze and I apologize! Any help would be
appreciated greatly!
Thank you,
David Roche
Home Page : http://www.eurekanet.com/~chandler
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:20:17 -0400
From: [email protected] (Pat Ellis)
Subject: Now's Startup Manager
Al Bloom wrote:
[stuff deleted]
>I snagged NSM from home this past weekend, and it seemed to do sort-of OK
>on my IIci. I admit to not having given NSM a workout before trying it on
>my office Q650/PPC. NSM killed that puppy.
>In a rare fit of reasonableness, I thought it a major hoot that NSM -- which
>promises to be a big help in resolving init conflicts -- itself blew up when
>launched on my Q650/PPC. Bus error. Yee haw!
The Startup Manager would be great if (I must agree with Al here)
it actually worked. Installed on my 660, running 7.5.3 (an otherwise
consistently stable setup) it has consistently crashed and caused my Mac to
drop me into MacsBug. No problems with Conflict Catcher or Extensions
Manager. The one thing I will miss was NSM's ability to recognize and
disable OT's Shared Library Manager. (a memory waste when not running OT
for a session). I guess I will have to continue to disable it
manually....oh well.
Pat Ellis
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:43:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Pilfered Publishing TM)
Subject: Plaintalk on a 5300c?
Does anyone have any experience running the Plaintalk speech software on a
Powerbook 5300c?
It is my friends and I was helping set it up this weekend and we couldn't
get it to work correctly.
Powerbook 5300c running 7.5.3 R2 currently with 8 MB of RAM (which might be
the problem).
Just looking for input.
Jeff Sass [email protected]
Computer Science Graduate Student Washington University in St. Louis
------------------------------
Date: 3 Sep 1996 12:47:24 -0400
From: "Peter Jorgensen"
Subject: Putting strange accents in a Word doc [A}
T Hodgson wrote:
>I'm helping a friend to prepare her dissertation for submission, using Word
>5.1, and she needs to insert some unusual accents in the text. They are:
>
> 'o' with a small circle above
> 'c' with an acute accent
etc...
The Main Idea: Create glossary entries containing inline equations for the
character combinations that are not in the character set.
Details:
The inline equation feature of Word is useful for this. Use the overstrike
command in conjuction with the characters of interest. For instance, the
second example ( 'c' with acute) would be entered something like this:
/;O(c,aa);/ where '/;' is the special character to start equations (see the
documentation); 'O' is an uppercase oh (for overstrike); '(c,aa)' are the
arguments to the 'O' command, 9i.e. what you want overstruck -- in this case
a 'c' and an acute accent which I've shown here as 'aa' but which you get on
the Mac by typing option-tilde twice in a row) and ;/ is the special
character for ending (closing) the equation. This (the overstrike) command
can be tweaked to adjust how high the second character is raised, if
necessary, by using the superscript equation command (U, I think -- look it
up) nested inside the 'O' command, something like: /;O(c,U(3,aa));/. The
documentation describes this in correct detail, don't rely on this message
for anything except the general idea - Use the Inline Equation feature.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 10:28:37 EST
From: [email protected] (Tony Johnson)
Subject: question
The following email request appeared in Info-Mac Digest during July. I am
interested in being able to program my 7200/75 the same way. Were there any
responses? Thank you, Tony Johnson
************
>> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:44:33 -0600
>> From: Kreme
>> Subject: Automatic startup for a 6200?
>>
>> I have a Performa 6200 with system 7.5.3, and I would like to be able to
>> set my computer to turn on at a specific time of day. I can get it to turn
>> OFF, and I can even use applescript and crond to tell it to RESART, but
>> that's not what I want.
>>
>> I am occasionally away from my computer for a couple of days, and I want
>> the computer to turn on, check mail, run some automated tasks, and then
>> shutdown. Full cycle? About 2-3 hours.
>>
>> Is this possible? Is it possible without extra hardware?
************
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 22:50:55 +0200
From: Roel Neumann
Subject: Russian language course on CD-ROM
I'd be grateful for any information multimedia language courses in Russian
on CD-ROM.
Thanks,
Roel Neumann
------------------------------
Date: 3 Sep 1996 19:06:10 GMT
From: [email protected] (Mark Kindred)
Subject: Severe Apple monitor problems; Apple's policy is killing me
I purchased an Apple 7100/80 (non-AV) and a Multiple Scan 15 last year.
Since then, I have been through 4 faulty monitors. The red gun has gone
bad on two of them. But even though it is under warranty, neither Apple
nor my Apple Service Center can come up with a solution.
If you have any knowledge of possible problems with these monitors, video
cards, or CPU's, please read the monitor problem details on my web page
and offer any advice you might have.
Also included on that page is my account of how Apple sends reconditioned
monitors out as replacements for faulty monitors (a policy with which I
fervently disagree) AND how I finally talked Apple into offering me an
upgrade to a 17" (which I turned down due to the fact that I feel they
severely misrepresented the current street prices to get me to agree to
the upgrade; and I would have had to sign legal forms agreeing never to
tell anyone about the upgrade).
Please visit the web page below and reply to me via email. I greatly
appreciate any help.
Mark Kindred
http://cord.iupui.edu/~becarr/mark/apple.html
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 20:57:54 +0100
From: [email protected] (Pierre Mercier)
Subject: Smart Scrolls
I just want to aware you about Smart Scrolls. After trying it only three
days, a warning message appeared at startup asking for paiement. Skipping
the message froze the screen. After an emergency start, I had the same
message and frozen screen. I had a lot of trouble and spent a lot of time
to restart from an external system and get rid of that thing. I think that
are rude manners just to get payments !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Francine Levesque et Pierre Mercier
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:05:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: Speech Recognition
Goeran Haglund, in im digest 202, asked an interesting question.
> Does anyone know about a mac-application capable of recognizing
>the voice, whereby text can be imput in a word processor using a
>microphone, instead of using the keybord?
Now Italian has pure vowals which I suspect might make a program that
used speech recognition into phonetic units quite feasible. Further,
awhile back someone mentioned several phonetic fonts that I kept note of
in im digest.
While recognition into actual spelled words might need sophisticated
artificial intelligence involving not only dictionary hypotheses but
grammatical based hypotheses, the phonetic recognition might not.
I'd like to see that sort of program be made if it hasn't already!
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 14:37:34 GMT
From: [email protected] (david yon)
Subject: Speed Disk
>
>
>
> i from the land of the cherry blossom ! Once again in need of help I turn
> my face toward thee oh Info-Mac! The mission should you decide to.......
>
> Find upgrade for Norton speed disk 2.6.
>
> I've been using this venerable old warrior for years and I have begun to
> wonder if there aren't at least 3-4 upgrades since I began using it on my
> Classic way back when ! It's given me great service over the years and I'm
> now using it on my latest Power Mac. I managed to find an upgrade from
> 3.0-3.1 but my copy is apparently 'too old to....' ( there are large
> numbers of fellow mac users out there who can, I'm sure, relate
).> Anyway, any and all help gratefully acknowledged.
>
> David William Yon
>>
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 20:11:51 -0700
From: Paul & Joan Blumstein
Subject: Supra FaxModems
I am currently using Supra FaxModem 144LC with Faxcilliate software. That
is the fax software that came with the modem.
I want to upgrade to a 28.8 modem. However, I don't want to re-type in all
of my fax addresses. And the software may not work with with 28.8 modems
since it predates that genre.
So, I guess that means that I should buy another Supra Modem. Do you guys
know whether all of the Supra Modems come with compatible software? If not,
does anyone know which ones?
TIA,
Paul
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:44:49 +0200
From: [email protected] (Ivan Moszer)
Subject: Typist software
Dear digest readers,
I have bought a Typist hand-scanner some six years ago (serial number
2060F-%002705), and I have used it succesfully during two years. Then I
stopped using it. Today I would like to use it again, but I have a "new"
Macintosh (Centris 650 -- that is 68040, not PPC, I know that Typist is not
compatible with Power Macs), so I have to reinstall the software.
Unfortunately, the disk no 2 with the "Typist" file si corrupted so I
cannot recover this file. Would it be someone to send me a fresh copy of
this file (by e-mail attachment)?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Ivan Moszer -+- Institut Pasteur, PARIS -+- [email protected]
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:32:12 -0400
From: "Peter J. Paul"
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.
Provided you are using QuickDraw GX a program called Peirce Print
Tools does a great job and is very easy. WORD has a help topic within
itself about watermarks for others (but it's not as easy).
>
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 16:23:37 -0700
From: "Adam C. Engst"
Subject: Why continue to Binhex?
At 7:43 PM +0300 8/25/96, Matti Haveri wrote:
>> MacBinary is definitely much more compact than BinHex and there's nothing
>> wrong with using it, but you can't avoid it (if you upload an .sea or .sit
>> file, Anarchie and Fetch try to change the name to add the .bin, but even
>> if you disable that feature in Fetch, say, the file is still a MacBinary
>> file). Upload as raw data in Fetch and you'll destroy the file...
>
>Not entirely true...
>
>Compressed .cpt or .sit files can well be transferred in raw binary as they
>usually contain only the data fork. Only if the files contain password info
>(in their resource forks) is MacBinary or BinHex necessary. You can even
>strip off the resource fork from .sea files and treat them as .sit.
True, although if you do that you'll have to open the files manually and/or
go in with a disk editor to reassign files types and the like. Not within
the capability of most users...
cheers ... -Adam
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:08:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark Stephansky
Subject: Zip cartridge carry alls?
Hi All:
I have a growing zip disk library and am looking for a good (read
efficient) way to carry them around with my powerbook. I would like
something similar to the small binders that you can get for a collection
of CD-ROMS or for floppies.
Anyone found a good solution?
TIA,
-Mark Stephansky
CoreData-Custom Filemaker Solutions
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 08:02:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected] (Blayne Welk)
>From the Offices of Blayne Welk
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 08:03:27 -0700
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected] (Blayne Welk)
Subject: [Q] Changing LibMotoSh Loading Order
I have found that LibMoto does significantly speed up some of my
applications, however it also conflicts with some of my software
(extensions/control panels). I recently read an article about someone who
used Now StartupManager 7.0 to change the load order of LibMoto to the
end of the extension chain. But I tried to do this with Conflict Catcher
3 and wasn't able to.
Does anyone know of a way to do this, either by modifying CC3 so that
it will move LibMoto or changing LibMoto so that it can be moved (perhaps
creator/type)? Copying LibMoto into folders of applications that use it
is not a viable option.
Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to provide, and
please cc: a copy of the message to my address so I don't miss it on the
list.
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