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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 14 Sep 96 Volume 14 : Issue 210
Today's Topics:
(A) Mac to PC Network
(Q) Iomega Zip Tools v.5 availability
[A] Audio CD
[A] Can a modem be shared?
[A] FTP between 2 remote machines
[A] RAM Upgrade
[A] SIMM Expanders & Centris 610
[Q] IP Gateway and AIR
Accelerating A IIci
Accelerators for 7200/90
Audio CDs Not Recognized (C)
Claris-Works
Consulting-Getting Started
Contour plots
[email protected]
drag and drop into apple menu
Floppy Desktop Size (Q)
FreePPP 2.5v2
How to get 2 computers through 1 modem?
Icon View gets messed up
Incognito 1.2b2;
Info-Mac Digest V14 #206
Info-Mac Digest V14 #207
Internet Explorer 2.1 lacks telnet support (Q)
Looking for good Middle Level typing software...
Mac Super-Drive
Message Utility? (A)
modem hardware compression?
Need help w/Retrospect 3.0 to copy list to word
Norton Utilities
PCI Macs and LaserWriter Bridge
Performa 636 Battery
Project X (Apples MCF system) (2 msgs)
RAM upgrade
Saving audio cd tracks to disk?
Syquest EZ135
Ukulele tuning
Universal System Floppy
Zip wallet
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:13:28 -0800
From: [email protected] (Stephen Grady)
Subject: (A) Mac to PC Network
>
>Does anyone know how Mac's and PC's are networked? I have seen it done
>but don't know how.
>
>I have the only Mac(8500/150) in a PC only office.
>All of the PC's are connected to the PC sever.
>I have to share and exchange file on this system but no one knows how to
>do it.
>My Mac has an ethernet connection in the back but doesn't read any
>available connections. Its the same cabable that was attached to the PC
>that formerly resided here.
I use my PB at work to connect to an ethernet of PC's. The cheapest
solution I found was to purchase Miramar's Personal MacLAN. It loads an
Appletalk stack onto the PC, allowing the Mac to access all the files on
the single PC (in your case, the server). Files can be moved back and
forth using either the PC or the Mac, from the normal file transferring
(i.e, the Finder on the Mac).
The product is super and inexpensive. Note that it is strictly one PC to a
maximum of five Macs. It will also allow you to print to any Postscript
printer on the PC ethernet.
The software loads on the PC, windows 3.1 or '95. Because it goes on the
PC, it is not a Mac type interface, a fact a number of reviewers have
bitterly complained about. But hey, it is a PC program. It loads on a PC.
If you are in need of accessing files on a PC, I figure that you can deal
comfortably with a PC Windows interface.
Stephen Grady
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:01:27 -0700
From: Mark Allen
Subject: (Q) Iomega Zip Tools v.5 availability
I've tried to download the recently released Iomega Zip Tools v.5 from the
company's website as per the instructions in a mailer I received. I am able
to progress through several layers of web pages, but at the point when I
specifically select the Mac download option, my Netscape application never
seems to complete the contact.
Has anyone been successful in doing this download? Can the v.5 tools be
posted on Info-Mac?
Thanks!
Mark Allen
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:22:15 +0000
From: Peter Peldan
Subject: [A] Audio CD
>
> From: [email protected] (Hannes Hofer)
>
> Subject: [Q] Audio CDs not recognized
>
> My system recently crashed while playing a Audio CD using AppleCD Audio
Player
> and Carl Huben's Digital Equalizer.
>
> Since the crash, my Power Macintosh 7100/66 has refused to recognize Audio
> CDs. When
> ever I try o insert a Audio CD, I get a dialog box saying: "This disk is
> unreadable by this Macintosh. Do you want to initialize the disk?" (it
> offers to format the disk as 538.5 MB disk!)
>
> I have done everything I could think of to fix the problem, including:
> erasing preference files for Digital Equalizer and CD player, erasing and
> reinstalling Digital Equalizer and CD player, zapping the PRAM, erasing and
> reinstalling all CD rom software, and last but not least, a complete system
> reinstall (system 7.5.3), all to no avail.
>
> CD Roms work fine, and I actually found one way to play Audio CDs: If I
> start Digital Equalizer and the AppleCD Audioplayer, I can insert a CD and
> play it, however, the CD icon does not show up on the desktop and it can
> only be ejected by rebooting the computer (if I try to eject it from the CD
> player I get the message that "the disk could not be ejected because it is
> being shared or it contains files that are in use").
>
> I have contacted Carl Huben, author of Digital Equalizer, but he rejects
> the idea that the problem is being caused by Digital Equalizer, saying that
> his application do not make calls to the CD drivers.
>
> Can someone please help me with this problem before I end up in a nut house?
>
> Hannes Hofer
>
> Reply to: [email protected]
>
> Reply to: [email protected]
I had the same problem once. Solution for me: Reinstall a few
extensions. Probably: Foreign File Access or/and Audio CD Access.
Peter
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:34:59 -0500
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: [A] Can a modem be shared?
On 4 Sep 96 20:17:59 -0400, "Patrick T. Pruyne" wrote:
> I'm helping my 3 yr old's school rig its new Mac installation
> (...by contrast my preschool offered 2 jars of dried-up paint, delicious
> white paste and erasers to clap for a thrill).
>
> Is it possible for OpenTransport/Netwared/Etherneted Macs to
> share a single modem (USRobotics Sportster)?
Consider PortShare Pro from Stalker Software. Any Mac on the network can
use the modem, up to the number of licensed users (10)--but only one at a
time, of course.
Hope this helps. Cheers!
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:35:57 -0400
From: [email protected] (Martin Forrester)
Subject: [A] FTP between 2 remote machines
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, [email protected] (Martin Forrester) wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Sep 1996, [email protected] (Doug Brouwer, Santa Cruz) wrote:
>>Is it possible to FTP from an FTP server and, in this case, have the file =
>>placed directly on the space I have available to me at my ISP? If so, =
>>could someone enlighten me as to the procedure? Thanks very much.
>
>Use Anarchie, open a window for each of the two ftp servers, then just drag
>files between them!
>
>Martin Forrester
>[email protected]
My short, sweet answer is completely incorrect, as pointed out to me by
Doug Brower. It doesn't work. I hate it when people give useless answers,
especially me!!
If anybody knows how to do this I'd like to know too! Surely some
Applescript pro could provide a solution?
Martin Forrester
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 13:15:12 -0800
From: [email protected] (Jim Yarrow)
Subject: [A] RAM Upgrade
From: [email protected] (Christian Parent)
Subject: RAM upgrade
. . .
I have a little question. I own right now a 7200/75 PowerMac with 2MB of
VRAM, 256k L2 cache and 32MB of RAM. I am thinking of adding 32 more MB up
to 64 MB in total. I use Photoshop the most. Now, is there anybody out
there who has already made that RAM boost that can give me a feedback on
what kind of speed improvement they felt while they where working with
medium size documents, like 8 or 10Megs in Photoshop?
. . .
Reply:
You will find an enormous speed difference in Photoshop with images from
8-10MB when you increase your RAM because with your current configuration
Photoshop is using your hard drive as "scratch" space in order to manipulate
the
image.
A Photoshop image requires 3-5 times the size of the image of "scratch space"
in
order to save changes, save the original (in case you want to revert to saved)
and
in general to work. Whatever RAM you don't have, it will go to the hard drive
and
use that as "scratch" or working space. Since RAM is generally at least 10
times
faster than most hard disks, most conservatively one could say you will see at
least a 3x to 4x performance increase while working with images of this size.
In your abovementioned scenario, an 8MB file requires 24 to 40MB of RAM
to effectively work, and 30 to 50MB of RAM for a 10MB file. If your system
folder
is like most, your system probably takes up 5-7MB, leaving a "working" space
of
about 22MB (your remaining RAM, plus 10% for system overhead). Increasing
your RAM to 64MB will give you working space of 51MB . . . plenty of room for
both 8 and 10MB images.
For more information on this, see the documentation on the Photoshop CD if you
have access to it, or the information on Improving Performance that can be
found
at adobe's web site, www.adobe.com.
Jim Yarrow
Customer Service Specialist, Macintosh
Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA, USA
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:33:23 -0700
From: kee nethery
Subject: [A] SIMM Expanders & Centris 610
>Hi!
>Have you been able to use SIMM Expanders with a Centris 610? Do SIMM
>Expanders have problems running with different-speed soldered-on SIMMS?
>
>My SIMMs work fine plugged directly into the SIMM slots, but when I use them
>with the Expanders my Centris 610 won't boot.
>
>I'm trying to use 32 megabyte, 60ns SIMMS. The factory-installed memory in
>the Centris 610 is 4 megabyte, 80ns.
I tried installing expanders into a 6100 and I had nothing but problems.
When I removed them the problems went away.
My explanation of why expanders sometimes do not work is below. Warning:
you are now approaching techno-babble.
The speed of RAM measures the time between when you tell the RAM what
address you want information from and when that information is on the data
lines and can be read as valid. My guess is that the extra distance from
the RAM socket through the expander adds enough capacitance to the signal
lines to cause problems.
Major techno-babble ahead.
Adding an expander is similar to digging a trench in the sand at the beach.
The signal (or the wave at the beach) when at the SIMM socket (measured at
the water's edge) takes a while to fill the extra capacitance with energy
and traverse through the expander (fill the trench with water to allow the
wave to traverse through the trench in the sand) to reach the RAM chips
(the end of the trench in the sand). In reverse, when the RAM has the data
ready, those signals take a while to get back through the expander. Yes
this is a very simplified analogy but in general, it is a pretty good
visualization of what is happening. Anyway, the expander adds a time delay
and I presume that some Macs are sensitive enough to the extra capacitance
so that you would need chips that are much faster than the specified chips
(smaller nanosecond (ns) numbers mean faster response times) when the delay
of an expander is added. If you are using 60ns RAM in the expander (vs 80ns
on board) and that is still not working, chances are it will never work
with an expander in your computer.
Kee Nethery
Kagi
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 13:43:17 +0200
From: Phil Hudson
Subject: [Q] IP Gateway and AIR
When in doubt, ask the wonderful Info-Mac list...
Anyone know whether there are PowerPC-native and/or Open Transport-savvy
versions of either Apple IP Gateway or Apple Internet Router out there?
Or have both these products been killed or replaced?
(BTW, for those who are wondering, the "Internet" in Apple Internet
Router doesn't mean Internet. It means "inter-LAN". Not an IP router at
all, it's an AppleTalk router, which you can use to mix LocalTalk and
EtherTalk LANs.)
What about Apple Remote Access? Is that now PPC-native and/or OT-savvy?
-- Phil Hudson -- [email protected] --
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:15:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John W. Steele"
Subject: Accelerating A IIci
IM Friends,
Having recently graduated from the Ponderously Slow division up to the
Driving Miss Daisy Speed division, I am looking to accelerate a Mac
II ci. I already have an FPU and a cache card. I don't necessarily want
to go up to a PPC (or even a '040), but want to up the speed. Is anyone
still making accelerators for the IIci? Can I clock-chip the speed up a
bit? Would putting more gerbils in the expansion slots help?
What I'm really trying to do is get enough speed up to be able to adopt a
Dogz. They seem rather retarded (although loyal as always) at 25 mhz.
Enquiring Minds Want To Know,
John W. Steele [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:30:10 GMT
From: [email protected] (david yon)
Subject: Accelerators for 7200/90
Hi guys ! Thanks for you great service! I am considering buying a mach 7
accelerator for my pm 7200/90. The company blurb (powerlogix) assures me it
will speed up the machine considerably. I wonder if any fello info-maccers
have had any experience with these or other accelerators? As always thanks
in anticipation. David
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 21:10:56 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom"
Subject: Audio CDs Not Recognized (C)
On Mon, 9 Sep, Hannes Hofer wrote in part
>My system recently crashed while playing a Audio CD using AppleCD Audio
>Player and Carl Huben's Digital Equalizer.
>
>Since the crash, my Power Macintosh 7100/66 has refused to recognize
>Audio CDs.
>
>I have contacted Carl Huben, author of Digital Equalizer, but he rejects
>the idea that the problem is being caused by Digital Equalizer, saying
>that his application do (sic) not make calls to the CD drivers.
It is "does," Hannes." Not "do."
No, I wouldn't bother with that correction for anyone with a non-US
address. Heck, it's rough enough for you folk who don't speak English
as a first language. But I get a tad torqued when US folk don't write
the language.
Yeah, I know. "Hannes Hofer" may imply a foreign student studying here.
Hard cheese. Learn the language.
But I digress. To the matter at hand:
Congratulations, Hannes. At least you got something working before
everything went to hell.
I saw your note and decided to look at "Digital Equalizer." It crashed
upon launch on my machine (Q650/PPC, Sys 7.5.3r2).
Fortunately it didn't kill anything else. As it did on your machine.
The product seems to be a piece of used food. The author's response to
you seems to indicate that he could give less than a naughtyword about
whether his program actually does something useful on any machine but
his own on any operating system other than his own.
Digital Equalizer might be one of the, blessedly few, instances where we
should ask the info-mac masters to flush a submission.
Al Bloom
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:09:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: BRUNET JEAN
Subject: Claris-Works
I would appreciate if someone would let me know if there exist a VT-100
extension for Claris-Works. The software packed by Apple has only VT-102.
Thanks in advance.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:16:13 -0500
From: [email protected] (Victor Daniel)
Subject: Consulting-Getting Started
I'm sending this as an open letter to all the Macintosh computer
consultants on the IO-MUG and INFO-MAC lists. I'm thinking about going into
computer consulting, focusing on my favorite computer, the Macintosh, and
I'd like some tips and tricks from those of you alreading in that business.
Specifically, I'd like to know:
1) How did you get your first clients? And how do you keep getting new
ones? In
other words, what marketing strategies do you use?
2) I realise that knowledge and experience of the working innards of a
computer and computer-related equipment is a prerequisite to be a computer
consultant, but just how much do you HAVE to know? And how do you acquire
that knowledge?
3) What tools do you need to start off with? Such things as software
utilities, a vehicle of some sort to get around, etc. Please expand on this
list.
Well, that's all I can think of to start with. I'm sure I'll think of more
questions as answers to these initial queries come to me. Just a little
background: I'm a college student who's worked with both Windows and
Macintosh computers, and I own a Mac. I've been working at a computer lab
at my school with mainly Windows machines for the last three years, where I
basically help keep the computers running and help users with their
problems.
Thanks in advane for any and all replies,
Victor Daniel (a.k.a the MacNut)
[email protected] [email protected]
http://www.netaxs.com/~macnut
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:19:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Contour plots
I would like to know if there is a software that can draw contour plots
>From a data text file. This text file contain 3D data.
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:13:04 -0400
From: [email protected] (Christian Parent)
Subject: [email protected]
Hello,
In response to your letter if the EZ Drive is reliable and efficient. I
have one right now and it's working perfectly fine. It's fast, never let me
down in any way and, yeah, no problem at all. And at the price they are
right now, I personnaly think it's a very good deal! As for precise
benchmarks and tests of comparison between let say the ZIP and the EZ I
have a great site for you and as a matter of fact for all of you looking
for benchmarks and comparison tests between different models of Mac and a
lot of other stuff. Great site and very well done and precise in
information. The adress is: http://ng.netgate.net/%7Eengstrom/cc.html and
the site name is: Macintosh/Clone comparison. I invite all of you to take a
look, the job this guy is doing is great!
Christian Parent
Frodo
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:34:55 -0500
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: drag and drop into apple menu
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:04:23 -050, [email protected] (Tristan Meisters) wrote:
> 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 .
Open your System Folder, select Apple Menu Items, make an alias of it, and
drop the alias into the real Apple Menu Items folder. Rename as desired,
adding pre- or post-alphabetic characters to control its appearance at the
top or bottom of your Apple menu. Cost: zero!
Hope this helps. Cheers,
--
Gib Henry
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 96 19:04:55 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom"
Subject: Floppy Desktop Size (Q)
Folk, I realize this is not one of the Great Questions Of Our Time, but
I've never seen a good answer. I format a floppy. Its desktop is maybe
a K or less. I put a file on the floppy. I wipe the file and empty the
floppy's trash. The desktop file is up to 34K or more. Why?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Al Bloom
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:30:14 -0700
From: "Adam C. Engst"
Subject: FreePPP 2.5v2
At 11:48 PM -0700 9/5/96, Jim Tanner wrote:
>>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?
>
>David Mittman suggested increasing the memory allotment for the installer
>application to 4048 KB. This worked.
I've just uploaded a new version of FreePPP 2.5v2 that has a slightly
revved installer (and NO other changes) to the archive. If you retrieve it
now, you'll get the new installer version.
cheers ... -Adam
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 21:52:02 +0000
From: allen kitchen
Subject: How to get 2 computers through 1 modem?
My wifes computer (lc3, 7.11system) is connected to mine (6100/66
7.53system) through appletalk. We would like to be able to have
a Telnet session run on her computer while another telnet session is
running on mine, and all go through the same modem (14.4K, also on the
6100 modem port)
Anyone have any ideas on how to pull this off through the MacSlip
on the 6100?
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:48:32 +1000
From: Jeff Hanbury
Subject: Icon View gets messed up
>Subject: Icon View gets messed up
>Has anybody else had this problem?
YES!
>What causes it?
>Is there a fix, or at least a painless way to restore the intended
>arrangement?
Please help, someone! This problem also happens to me and it's very
annoying indeed.
Thanks
Jeff
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:55:02 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Incognito 1.2b2;
I've tried getting this anti netwrok serialisation software off the ftp but
can't seem to access... can you help me?
Thanks Jack
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 21:14:59 -0400
From: "Mark A. Saper"
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #206
I've ordered a PowerCenter 132 with the default 1 GB disk. The
benchmarks I've seen indicate that this machine has relatively poor disk
performance. Has anyone investigated if this is due to the SCSI bus, or
just to a slow drive?
Many thanks,
Mark Saper
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:41:01 -0700
From: Edwin Whitnack
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #207
>Therefore, does anyone know how to disable (and prevent it from loading
>and eating RAM) Java in Navigator 3.0?
Under Options, you should be able to turn off Java.
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:46:18 -0400
From: [email protected] (Don't Panic!)
Subject: Internet Explorer 2.1 lacks telnet support (Q)
Dear Digest readers,
To my surprise, when I go into Internet Explorer's 2.1 preferences,
it lacks any setting for Telnet application. In fact, even when Internet
Config 1.2 is set for NCSA-Telnet as my telnet application, Internet
Explorer fails to detect that too. Instead it tells me to load the Telnet
application separately.
Netscape doesn't have this trouble at all. But there are times when I
like to use Internet Explorer, and having to leave the point and click
environment of
the web just to launch a telnet program at a specific site seems
counterproductive. Am I correct that Explorer doesn't support the launch
of a telnet application when telnet:// is received?
If that is the case, could somebody who has better contacts with Microsoft
notify them it is a bug that should be fixed?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:07:42 -0400
From: [email protected] (Vincent Cordsico)
Subject: Looking for good Middle Level typing software...
Hello,
We are looking for some middle level (grades 6,7,8) typing software to run
on Mac LC's.
We would greatly appreciate any suggestions/recommendations, input, etc.
Thanks in Advance.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:49:10 -0600
From: "Jim C. Smith"
Subject: Mac Super-Drive
My second rebuilt super-drive is going out in my Mac IIsi. Does anyone
know where I can buy a new (not rebuilt) super-drive?
Thanks,
Jim C. Smith
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 22:40:33 JST
From: [email protected] (Mark Nagata)
Subject: Message Utility? (A)
In Info-Mac Digest v.14-#207, Mark Miller asked:
> Anybody know of a utility that will allow one mac to send a message to
> another?
>
If those Macs are connected by AppleTalk, then, I know of a very good one:
KeyQuencer 2.0.
It is a newcomer commercial macro utility, and includes the
'RemoteControl'/'RemoteSensor' components.
Its 'RemoteControl' command can send commands to any AppleTalk-connected
remote Macs that have 'RemoteSensor' installed (with optional password
requirement), that can do _anything_, from displaying message text,
selecting menu items, pressing buttons, typing text, dragging icons around,
virtually anything that you can do in front of a Mac, completely remotely.
Info available at:
email: [email protected]
America Online email: binary sw
Cheers,
Mark
--
Mark Nagata
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 02:22:49 -0800
From: "S. Brewster"
Subject: modem hardware compression?
Does anyone know how to enable hardware data compression on a modem with a
Hayes chipset? ATQ1 or something? I haven't seen my manual in years...
Thanks. --Scott
Scott Brewster -*- audio consultant -*- [email protected]
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 19:15:30 -0800
From: Macy Garcia
Subject: Need help w/Retrospect 3.0 to copy list to word
Hi!
I have a storageset in Mac Retrospect 3.0 and can't find a way to copy
out a complete list of files. I get "Retrospect selection" when I paste
in to Word. I need to edit the list in a word processor. If it's nrt
possible to export or copy a text version of the list, can I print a
complete storageset list to a PS file?
What program will convert a PS printo to disk file into a text file for
Word? I rember something that did that.
Thanks for your help.
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: DOUG ANDERSON
Subject: Norton Utilities
Can I use Norton Utilities 2.0 on my Power Mac. safely.?
Thanks!
Doug
email
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:47:23 +0000 (EZT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: PCI Macs and LaserWriter Bridge
Hi,
We are preparing a Mac 8500 as server for our department
network here. On our old server we had installed the LaserWriter
(software) Bridge (from Apple).
On the new 8500 we run AppleShare 4.2.1 (the latest version).
Today we discovered that on a 8500, which is a PCI machine
this LaserWriter Bridge Software will NOT run !!
There seems to be no update for PCI Macs.
Is this true ?
Does someone have another solution (instead of buying
additional hardware for our laserwriters).
Nico Rozendaal,
Maastricht University,
Dept. of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology,
Maastricht,
The Netherlands.
([email protected])
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:32:48 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson
Subject: Performa 636 Battery
The internal battery in my Performa 636 just died. Can I replace it with 3
AA or AAA batteries, tricked up in a nice plastic holder of some kind?
there's plenty of room inside...
TIA
Jerry
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:51:32 +0200
From: [email protected] (Mike Louka)
Subject: Project X (Apples MCF system)
Sorry, just to be more precise about MCF. In my earlier mail I concentrated
on the use of MCF to store _structural information_ about collections of
related documents, but that is just one example of how MCF can be used
(something that I do not feel that I made clear).
MCF's purpose is to represent "information _about_ content" -- it is quite
flexible about the sort of meta information that can be stored. In the
case of Project X, the information stored is the object name, identifiers
of parents, identifiers of children, and hints of position (x,y coords
relative to parent). So, for Project X, MCF is basically used to provide
meta information about the structure of a collection of documents, which
is probably the most interesting application area for MCF, which is why
I concentrated on it earlier.
Michael.
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:26:11 +0200
From: [email protected] (Mike Louka)
Subject: Project X (Apples MCF system)
Thomas Khan ([email protected]) asked about whether he should be
intrested in ProjectX/MCF in digest 207.
Thomas, You appear to confuse MCF and "Project X". MCF is "just" a
meta-content format. It's purpose (as stated in Apple's White Paper
on MCF - available from the Project X pages of Apple's Web server) is
to provide a language to adequately represent _information about
structure_. A number of experimental hypermedia systems allow users to
create links that contain structural information, but this type of
information is not possible to convey adequately in current HTML. This
is a major problem with the web, as a hypermedia system, because the
structure of documents in a hypertext can often convey as much meaning
as the information contents of the nodes themselves and because structural
information is needed to enable the feasability of useful spatial navigation
aids (2D maps or 3D worlds) which hypertext research indicates are very
useful for navigating in large information spaces. MCF is interesting
because it allows us to add information about structure to your Web site.
So how does the Project X application fit into this?
Project X is an example of a client that uses the meta information to
provide an overview representation of web documents. In the case of
Project X the overview is 3D.
If MCF catches on then it could be used to present information in a
number of different ways. The important things is that it helps to
define how documents are related to each other. At the moment there
are not enough tools that use MCF, but you should follow it's progress
as it is a potentially very useful addition to the web designers toolbox.
Michael.
w3 url : http://home.sn.no/~mlouka/
e-mail : [email protected] (home) or [email protected] (work)
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 96 23:22:26 -0600
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: RAM upgrade
>I own right now a 7200/75 PowerMac with 2MB of
>VRAM, 256k L2 cache and 32MB of RAM. I am thinking of adding 32 more MB up
>to 64 MB in total. I use Photoshop the most. Now, is there anybody out
>there who has already made that RAM boost that can give me a feedback on
>what kind of speed improvement they felt while they where working with
>medium size documents, like 8 or 10Megs in Photoshop?
To avoid triggering its own virtual memory scheme, Photoshop needs three
to five times the image size in free RAM (in its Get Info allocation).
Assuming you mean an image with a 10 MB RAM footprint (not file size,
which is usually much smaller due to compression), 64 MB total should
prevent you from hitting the disk if your System footprint isn't too
large and you aren't running anything big in the background. With larger
images, or images with extra layers and channels, you may still push
Photoshop into VM mode, but not as frequently, and the delays will be
shorter.
If you've been working on 10 MB images with your current setup, you
probably already have a good idea of how much time you'll save,
especially if you use an init like MacLights to show drive activity. All
that disk thrashing will go away. Nothing speeds up Photoshop like a
massive infusion of RAM.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected]) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page at:
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:02:30 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Buckwalter=2DMob=E4ck?=
Subject: Saving audio cd tracks to disk?
Hi
I wan't to know if there is a way to copy tracks from a standard audio cd
to an HD or other media. And then play the tracks from there.
As far as I can see it isn't impossible since it's only data but can I do
it with existing software?
Bye.
________________________________
Bj=F6rn Buckwalter-Mob=E4ck
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:37:21 -0800
From: Julius Friede
Subject: Syquest EZ135
>I will probably buy an Syquest EZ135 Drive but I first wanted to know if it is
>really reliable.
I have had an EZ 135 for about 6 months now and am very pleased with it. It
is subjectively as fast as my internal drive and has been very reliable.
The only drawback is the somewhat clunky load/eject procedure. I don't find
that too bothersome. I have seen it advertised recently for about $100. At
that price, it's a great value. If you can swing it though, check out the
230MB EZ Flyer. Twice the storage capacity at about the same media price,
and an improved load/eject procedure.
Hope this helps,
Julius Friede
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:34:16 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson
Subject: Ukulele tuning
My wife just bought an ukulele and I was wondering if I could use my Mac
to aid in the tuning thereof. I saw a piano tuning program but that was
too big and too expensive. Any ideas?
TIA
Jerry
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 04:11:31 -0500
From: [email protected] (Pilfered Publishing TM)
Subject: Universal System Floppy
I am trying to make a Universal System floppy for as many Macs as possible.
Is there a way to make a 7.5 boot disk that will boot all Macs made before
7.5? I have a universal hard drive (7.5.3) which boots ANYTHING - but I
want to get the older machines on floppy boot.
As I understand - all pre 7.5 CPU's would boot from this disk while
anything after would need enabler files that are larger than a disk.
Is there a way around the enablers that came with 7.1 by using the 7.5 Disk
Tools disk for example?
TIA,
Jeff Sass [email protected]
Computer Science Graduate Student Washington University in St. Louis
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:46:55 -0700
From: [email protected] (Paul [not "Brian"] Brians)
Subject: Zip wallet
Someone asked here recently the same question that got unanswered for me
last year: is there a soft case for carrying around compactly a number of
Zip disks? The answer is that Iomega has created a 6-disk wallet which it
is selling for $15-$16. It is their items #729705 and can be ordered from
their Web page .
But our school computer store is selling them for slightly less, so check
your local outlets.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
[email protected]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians
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