Info-Mac Digest V14 #230
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 4 Oct 96 Volume 14 : Issue 230
Today's Topics:
[*] hsois-app-shell-10a2-c.hqx - A MacOS development shell
[*] Tools Plus 3.1 (4-star libs)
[A] telnet for mac
[Q] Fonts With Macrons?
[Q] MAJOR problems printing HTML from Netscape 3.0 Gold
[Q] Netscape
About this Cyberdog thing...
Appletalk computer-to-computer cable?
CD-ROM drivers (2 msgs)
Icon View gets messed up - A better fix
Info-Mac Digest V14 #229
Mac IIci and modem problems
Macintosh file permissions
More on Finale-Illustrator-Word problem
Mount Windows NT 200MB SyQuest on Mac?
OpenTransport & MacTCP NOT Compatible FAQ
Problems finding the papertrays.
Problems with PPP! Help!!
QuickTime 2.1/2.5 causing crashes. Help!
Re : Adding a second monitor to my Q650
reverse nslookup
Superdrive working again
) !!
telnet for mac
Thanks for the Help
Type 1, Bus Errors (summary)
video capture card
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:49:37 -0700
From: [email protected] (John C. Daub)
Subject: [*] hsois-app-shell-10a2-c.hqx - A MacOS development shell
Hsoi's App Shell was a big learning tool for me to learn how to
write MacOS applications in C using Metrowerks CodeWarrior. I
felt that it might be of use to other people, so I wanted to have
it publicly available to the MacOS development community.
So, what can Hsoi's App Shell do or show you how to do? Well,
we'll skip the general things like application development,
human-computer interaction techniques, etc. and just give you
a list of the code-type things:
- How to use WASTE, Marco Piovanelli's WorldScript Aware
Styled Text Engine as a replacement text engine for TextEdit
- How to use the WASTE Object Handlers (Michael Kamprath's
object handling library for WASTE)
- How to impliment Undo
- How to use Gestalt to properly check for system capabilities
- How to use UniversalProcPtr's (both usage and how to create
your own!)
- How to have code that works on both 68k and PPC based Macintoshes
- How to read from and write to files
- How to use CustomGet/PutFile routines with your own custom
dialog filters
- How to use Aliases and take advantage of the Alias Manager
- How to do alerts
- How to Save, Save As, and Revert files
- How to properly deal with locked files
- How to take advantage of temporary files and FSpExchangeFiles
for safe saving techniques
- How to use nifty functions like FindFolder
- How to properly work with resources and the Resource Manager
- How to add name strings to help orphaned document files
- How to do submenus
- How to do dynamic menus (menus created at runtime, like a
Windows menu)
...and lots more little things that you'll just have to look through
the code to find out.
This archive was compiled and written and is maintained by John C.
Daub . Correspondance about this shell
should be directed to that email address (i.e. not the address
at the top of this abstract). This information is current as
of 1 August 1996.
Hope it's useful to you!!
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/hsois-app-shell-10a2-c.hqx; 1410K]
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:45:15 -0700
From: [email protected] (Water's Edge Software)
Subject: [*] Tools Plus 3.1 (4-star libs)
Tools Plus 3.1 libraries for CodeWarrior, THINK C/C++, THINK Pascal. Create
professional looking apps. Automate dialogs, menus, events, etc. Create
integrated, _working_ GUI elements with 1 line of code (ie, create an Edit
menu and it edits!). Many extras: tool bar, floating palettes, the best
picture buttons, sliders, tabs, complete 3D look, plus much more! Easy to
learn and use. Rated 4 stars by Macworld.
For all Macs, PowerMacs and MacOS compatibles
System 7 or higher recommended (System 6 minimum)
Water's Edge Software : Voice: 1-416-219-5628
2441 Lakeshore Road West : Fax: 1-905-847-1638
Box 70022 : Internet: [email protected]
Oakville, Ontario : [email protected]
Canada, L6L 6M9 : CompuServe: 73424,2507
Visit our developer web site at http://www.interlog.com/~wateredg
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/tools-plus-31-demo.hqx; 3324K]
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:02:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: [A] telnet for mac
David ([email protected]) allegedly wrote:
> Is it just me, or is there little to go on when it comes to telnet on a
> Mac? NCSA Telnet-2.7b4 was dropped while still in beta, Comet is a few
> years old, Nifty Telnet has no logging feature (that I can see.)
By "logging", do you mean scrollback?
I think I can safely reveal that a newer version of NiftyTelnet with
configurable scrollback is in late beta; I am using it to write this
and I like it a lot.
There are also some commercial options such as VersaTerm, but I hardly
see a reason to use them.
Cheers,
Ethan
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 10:23:22 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling"
Subject: [Q] Fonts With Macrons?
Does anyone know of any fonts with macrons? Also, are there any good Greek
fonts out there? Our Latin/Greek teacher wants to know.
Thanks!
keg
* Keith E Gatling * [email protected] * http://web.syr.edu/~kgatling *
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:21:43 -0400
From: [email protected] (Bill Edwards)
Subject: [Q] MAJOR problems printing HTML from Netscape 3.0 Gold
This is on a Powerbook 2300c with 44 MB of RAM, running System 7.5.5.
Netscape is partitioned to 20000K. I was attempting to print to an HP
Laserjet 4M (which was erroring out with ERROR 40). I found that I could
not print more than one HTML file in a row without my system freezing.
Further, printing Netscape-owned HTML files from the Finder caused Netscape
to sit there and blink the buttons on the button bar. This glitch was
repeatable.
The HTML files use a couple of very small images. Has anybody run across
such Netscape printing problems? Any way around them, other than using an
older version of Netscape (on a Unix system, which is what I finally did)?
Please respond by email to [email protected], and I will summarize. I
am restraining myself from a massive flame of Netscape and all its works...
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 13:20:29 -0500
From: Erik M Hjelle
Subject: [Q] Netscape
Hi all,
In the Netscape preferences folder there is a file called "MagicCookie."
Does anyone have any idea what this file is for?
Thanks in advance.
Erik Hjelle
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 23:39:08 EDT
From: Allan Hunter
Subject: About this Cyberdog thing...
Didja hear about Exponential's successful 500 MHz experimental silicon?
(thinkin' of how a 500 MHz PowerMac would feel
It truly IS nice to see some good news in the world of Mac. I also see
that after being almost written off, OpenDoc is apparently looking good
or at least viable to the computer press folks. I have to confess to
some bewilderment though...
This was gonna be component software architecture, right? They said
giant ponderous softwares such as Word or Photoshop would give way to
sleek elegant bare-bones containers to which we add accessory parts
and have it our way, minus the rococo crud we could do without.
So the big demo app (only free downloadable one so far?) is Cyberdog?
Here I am with Netscape which does web browsing on top of FreePPP
and when I want to download a file I launch Fetch, and YANewswatcher
is ready if I want to dig the newsgroups, and Eudora reads and files
the mail, and there's always ChatNet if I wanna communicate live.
If I want movies to play or audio files to sing or MIDI files to ring
or Java applets to run or if I prefer to swim thru webspace instead of
surfing it, there are dozens of plug-ins and auxiliary programs to grab
that all piggyback on the basic connection and software architecture.
The files I download are unhqxxed and unstuffed courtesy of Stuffit Ex-
pander, graphically viewed later by GraphicConverter, or otherwise
handled by associated helper applications.
So THIS is the world that Apple is gonna take on with (drum roll...)
component architecture??? Admittedly, Netscape is getting bloated and
resource-hungry, but Netscape is to become a container or a part (I
forget which) which is a great Apple triumph or so I'm told...
Oh, none of this is horrible, certainly not if it sells, I'm just kinda
confused and discombobulated by it. I have OpenDoc sitting dormant on my
hard drive, with no Cyberdog because my online stuff is OK and certainly
modular enough thank you (there must be something I'm clueless about?).
But suppose Apple released a container that looked a lot like a cross
between SimpleText and MacWrite classic (e.g., version 4.6) and about
20 different starter-kit optional add-on parts that did things like
footnoting, table editing, spell checking, "styles" managing, string
find/replacing, kerning/justification, outlining, glossary building,
etc etc etc? And within months you could download alternatives that
came into existence as shareware or commercialware or freeware that
perhaps you would like better?
(I'd probably go with something that looked a lot like MacWrite 4.6
minus the one-document-open-at-a-time limitation, plus a footnoter
and a tool for popping in graphic objects (created elsewhere) such
that text would flow around, and otherwise leave off all bells whistles
and button bars and end up with something sleek and highly suited to
my individual taste).
Wouldn't that stick out more as a contrast, and be more accessible to
the average computer-user, than the possibility of custom-configuring
their own internet-accessing kit?
-Allan Hunter
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:48:59 +1000
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: Appletalk computer-to-computer cable?
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #227, Gordon Watts -- Brown University
wrote
> I have a portable. I use a cable I have from my Stylewriter to connect
>the serial ports of my portable and my SE/30, and I run appletalk between
>them.
> Now, I want to run both the stylewriter and keep the connection between the
>se/30 and portable at the same time. So. New cable.
> Well, gee. Seems like the stylewriter cable is pretty weird. I tried the
>"Imagewriter II" version of the serial cable and that didn't work. I thought
>about trying the straight through version of the cable, however, tested the
>working cable with a multimeter first. It is weird: more than one set of pins
>are reversed.
> Where can I get such a cable and what the heck is it called?
Gordon, whoa! You're rushing at this a bit.
Both your cables will just be serial printer cables I hope... and more than
one set of pins _is_ reversed, since in addition to data I/O pins crossing,
the handshaking pins must cross too. (Straight-through cables are used
mostly to connect to data switch boxes and the like...)
Are you using a modem on the SE/30? If not, use your 2nd serial printer
cable and run the Stylewriter from the SE/30's modem port. (Select Modem
Port in the Chooser.) Then you can keep AppleTalk on the printer port of
the machine, and use your existing little AppleTalk network connecting the
portable and SE/30.
Ah! but you're probably using a modem. (I can't imagine you not doing so,
actually:-) Well...
You don't say which Stylewriter you've got. Let's hope it's a 2400/2500.
If so you need: 3 phone net connectors for your network, and the
Stylewriter AppleTalk module; and a couple of lengths of 4-wire phone cable
with RJ11 connectors of course. (That shouldn't be more than about $140
odd.)
Install the Stylewriter AppleTalk Module (at left rear of your
Stylewriter.) Plug the phone net connectors into the Stylewriter, and the
printer ports of the Macs. Have the Stylewriter at one end of the chain.
Make sure the ends are terminated. Turn AppleTalk on on both machines.
Select the Stylewriter in both Choosers. Go!
Hope this helps...
bill
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 20:32:00 +0200
From: Jesper Oersted
Subject: CD-ROM drivers
>I have two CD-ROM drives on a Quadra 840AV. One is an Apple drive >(SONY),
>internally mounted; the other is an APS Technologies drive (Toshiba),
>mounted externally.
>I have two drivers: , which is in the >Extensions
>folder, and , which is not.
>Problem:
>1. Neither driver seems to handle the other drive correctly.
>2. The drivers are probably incompatible, so I can't have them both >in the
>Extensions folder at once.
>
>WhaddoIdo?
You should try SCSIProbe 4.3,it will mount just about anything and the
price is right:0$!
Jesper Oersted.
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:56:47 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: CD-ROM drivers
At 4:37 PM -0600 10/2/96, Rollo Silver wrote:
>I have two CD-ROM drives on a Quadra 840AV.
>
>WhaddoIdo?
You could buy FWB CD Toolkit. In all likelihood, it will drive both of
them. The list of supported drives is quite long, and includes many Sony
and Toshiba mechanisms.
chazl
10/03/96
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 10:20:01 -0700
From: [email protected] (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: Icon View gets messed up - A better fix
In IM#207, I reported on an occasional problem with the icon view
getting messed up, and in IM#215 I reported on a fix, using
"Snapshotter". My fix caused J. D. Sterling to wonder (in IM#217):
* I can appreciate that Snapshotter would fix the problem if you remembered
* to run it beforehand. What is one supposed to do ... Keep a snapshot of
* ones entire hard drive just in case the icons mess up? Should one take
* a snapshot whenever one moves icons around?
*
* This post is to plead for someone to make a drag and drop application
* that:
* * Changes the icon view to View by small icon (from icon view),
* _without_ changing the icon position. That is, change one
* parameter in the folder without changing the other.
Well, none of the above seems to be needed! I discovered that
Snapshotter already does what JDS pleads for:
(1):
When the small-icon view of a folder gets messed up into large icons
still sitting on the small-icon grid, simply make a Snapshot of that
messed-view IMMEDIATELY, before doing anything else.
(2):
Now change the icon view to small icons, leading to a messed-up grid.
(3):
Finally double-click on that Snapshot you made under (1). That will
restore the old grid, but now with small icons. It may take a few
seconds, so don't panic and mess up the process.
The reason this works is that Snapshotter records only the grid
positions, not the kind of view.
Herb K
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 07:37:37 -0400
From: [email protected] (Dietmar Lichota)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #229
Brainstorm makes Accelerator cards for the MacPlus and the SE (and others I
think.) I recently installed one in a Plus with limited success (means
snipping out old chips and soldering new ones - not for the faint of heart
or unsteady hand) and in an SE with great success (easy - unplug old and
plug in new chip).
If you need the contact info let me know & I will post it when I get home.
regards
Dietmar
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:12:25 +0000
From: "Rozanne Thomson"
Subject: Mac IIci and modem problems
I have a Mac IIcx which works fine with either of two fax-modems.
They are a USRobotics Sportster 14.4, and a Supra Faxmodem 28.8.
However, if I try to use either of these modems on a Mac IIci, I get
messages telling me the port is busy, or "An error occurred when
opening the connection". This happens on three Mac IIci's that I have
tried, and with both modems. I can however print from the Mac IIci's
so the ports are working. I am using Microphone 2.02 with a new
download of the PowerDriver from Intercon. Any ideas about what
What could be causing this problem? Thanks for any ideas.
Supra and USRobotics have not so far come up with any helpful hints.
Setup: System 7.5, no Open Transport.
Please reply directly to me and I will summarize to the digest.
- - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Rozanne Thomson
Systems Analyst, Computer Resources
BCIT, Burnaby BC V5G 3H2. Phone (604)451-7000
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Date: 4 Oct 1996 10:06:45 GMT
From: [email protected] (Content Christophe)
Subject: Macintosh file permissions
Organization: Brussels Free Universities (VUB/ULB), Belgium
Summary:
Keywords:
Hello all,
I'm facing a tricky problem:
I hooked up macs/PPC to controllers with
the aim of acquiring a large amount of data
once a minute say. Data are stored on
the hard drive in a defined structure.
Files are created, apened, opened, closed.
To prevent unexperienced users from trashing
data files I would like to programmatically
protect them. Locking files can be done in
Labview for instance but that won't prevent
a user to drag a file and drop it in the
wastebasket. Moreover if I select a directory
in the finder I can tick the option "Can't be
moved, renamed, deleted" but how to
generalize that to all enclosed folders AND
files? How to do that programatically?
Is there a solution to that problem?
TIA for any hint,
Christophe Content
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:55:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: More on Finale-Illustrator-Word problem
Mac-enthusiasts
First, my thanks to all those who responded with suggestions on my problem
printing Finale/Illustrator EPS files in Word 6.0.1.
Second, let me apologize for implying that Word was necessarily the problem. I
don't know at which point the problem is occuring, and Word 6 is really the
only tool for the job!
I have tried all suggestions to no avail. One thing I have noticed, however, is
that the *first* excerpt I copy after opening Illustrator works fine. All
subsequent items are messed up. Does this mean I'm having a memory problem?
I've used several machines, but I'm primarily using a 7200 with 16 megs real
ram with 28 (or so) virtual. Should VM be turned off? If it is, I don't know if
I have enough to keep Illustrator and Word open simultaneously.
Obviously the workaround is to copy the excerpt, quit Illustrator, paste it
into Word, re-open Illustrator, etc. I have 45 musical examples with an average
of two or three lines each, so this is a real pain!
Any new ideas will help!
Jeff Snider, Assistant Professor of Music
Wartburg College, Waverly, IA USA 50677
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:04:19 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Mount Windows NT 200MB SyQuest on Mac?
[email protected] (Chuck Reti) wrote:
>Our heretofore all-Mac facility recently had to purchase
>a task-specific hardware/software package running on Windows NT platform.
[snip]
>There is a 200MB SyQuest drive onboard; we also have
>200MB SyQuest drives on our Macs. We would like to use our
>Mac-based software to open up and exchange TIFF's on the NT SyQuests.
>No can do. The Macs (Quadra 950's thru 9500's) do not recognize or
>mount the NT SyQuests.
I don't know whether it'll work on NT, but take a look at "Here & Now",
>From (I think) Software Architects. It's a Windows program which allows a
Wintel machine to recognize and access Macintosh disks, and even maps
DOS-style 3-letter file extensions to Mac Creator/Type codes and vice
versa. It supports a variety of removable disks, including SyQuests and
floppies. On Windows 95 it even handles long filenames.
Sorry, I don't have their web page address handy.
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 00:02:23 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: OpenTransport & MacTCP NOT Compatible FAQ
Greetings,
It seems this problem is cropping up on the digest time and again.
People are constantly trying to mix and match versions of MacPPP with the wrong
TCP/IP software, or trying to use both MacTCP and OpenTransport on the same
machine.
Both are no-nos!
Here recommended software configurations along with hardware:
Processor Software recommended for Netscape based web browsing.
68020 MacTCP 2.0.6 MacPPP 2.01 Netscape 1.1N System 7.1
68030 MacTCP 2.0.6 MacPPP 2.01 Netscape 1.1N or 2.0.2* System 7.5
68040 OpenTransport 1.1 FreePPP 2.5v2 Netscape 3.0* System 7.5
Update 2.0 (7.5.3)
or 68030 settings will work too.
Performa 5200, 5300, 6200, 6300
MacTCP 2.0.6 MacPPP 2.01 Netscape 1.1N or 2.0.2* System 7.5.2
When OpenTransport 1.1.1 is released
OpenTransport 1.1.1 FreePPP 2.5v2 Netscape 3.0* System 7.5
Update 2.0
PCI PowerMacs 7200, 7500, 7600, 8500, 9500
OpenTransport 1.1 FreePPP 2.5v2 Netscape 3.0* System 7.5 Update 2.0
Powerbooks - I must confess my ignorance here. Maybe somebody would like
to add a
section of what has and hasn't worked.
* Netscape 2.0.2 requires at least 8MB of RAM if you have no plugins
installed, and 14MB of RAM
with plugins installed. Tack on 6MB of RAM for your minimal system RAM
requirements. RAMDoubler,
SpeedDoubler, Optimem (RAM Charger), and Virtual Memory are not
recommended. Netscape 3.0 requires at
least 12MB of RAM, and 15MB of RAM with additional plugins installed.
This is all based on information from the readmes and online help of the
various software packages. Some may be inaccurate.
Standard disclaimers apply.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
Check out my web page at http://www.bayserve.net/~abrody
Suggestions appreciated.
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:03:13 +0100
From: [email protected] (Thomas Kahn)
Subject: Problems finding the papertrays.
Dear Info-Mac readers,
A couple of weeks ago I installed System 7.5 update 2.0 (Swedish version)
on my mothers performa 5200. Before I did this she could choose to print
documents using papers from two separate trays on her Personal Laserwriter;
she just set the right preferences in the printing options. That way she'd
get one kind of paper as the first page in a document, and a different kind
for the following pages.
After I "tangled" with her Macintosh, this does not work anymore. She's
still using the Personal Laserwriter driver, but somehow the update screwed
it up(?) Now I wonder if anyone has a solution to the problem? I haven't
had the opportunity to come to my parents place and help her out, so I
haven't yet had a chance to actually attack this problem, but since I'm not
very good at printerdrivers and laserwriters, I'm asking for some advice
before I attempt to fix it.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas Kahn
________________________
[email protected]
http://www.roundhouse.se
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:02:36 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Problems with PPP! Help!!
David Roche wrote:
>I've been having some problems with my PPP connection as of late...
>
>In the time it takes me to read and/or respond to my email which has
>downloaded from Eudora, my PPP connection is lost... and I have to
>redial... over the course of an hour of email work, I have to dial
>back in 2 or sometimes 3 times! My service provider cuts off "idle"
>connections after 20 minutes...
>
>Is there a small utility available which I can run in the background that
>will keep the PPP
>connection busy, so that I don't lose the connection?
Instead of trying to keep the connection while you're reading & writing
email, why not change your setup so that Eudora doesn't bother sending the
outgoing messages until you tell it to? Eudora can save those messages in
your "Out" mailbox until you decide to send them.
Just turn off the Immediate Send option under the Sending Mail settings.
It'll change the "Send" button in the new-message edit window into a
"Queue" button -- all messages that you write will be queued (saved) until
you tell Eudora to send them. The "Send Queued Messages" menu command
tells Eudora to send any outgoing messages that are waiting to be sent.
There's also a "Send on check" option -- if this is checked, then whenever
you fetch your mail, Eudora will also send any outgoing messages that are
waiting to be sent.
If you don't like that idea, you could try turning on Eudora's "Check every
xxx minutes" option, so that Eudora will check for incoming mail every 15
minutes. That activity ought to keep your ISP from hanging up.
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 14:53:18 -0700
From: Michael Rundle
Subject: QuickTime 2.1/2.5 causing crashes. Help!
Quicktime versions 2.1 and 2.5
Mac Classic II (68030) 10MB ram + VM on, Systems 7.5.3 and 7.5.5
I have been having trouble with Quicktime for several months. I will
turn on my computer one day to find that it will start up only to the
point that it would normally show the desktop, then it stops. All
extensions have loaded, mouse cursor moves, but no desktop icons or menu
commands. I tracked down the guilty extension to QuickTimed (then
2.1). I could start up with Quicktime as my only extension and the same
thing would happen. I downloaded a fresh copy from apple and
reinstalled. Same problem. Only after I had reinstalled a brand new
system folder with a brand new quicktime would the problem be solved.
After a couple of months, for no reason I can explain, the same thing
happens again. I install a new System folder, problem solved.
I just upgraded to System 7.5.5, and QuickTime 2.5 and now have the same
problem.
This problem feels to me like the same kind of problem when a
preferences file gets corrupted, but quicktime has no preferences file.
Right? Any suggestions appreciated
Michael Rundle
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 13:51:52 +0100 (BST)
From: Russ Bubley
Subject: Re : Adding a second monitor to my Q650
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 22:09:29 +0200
From: [email protected] (FranCois Lombard)
Subject: Re : Adding a second monitor to my Q650
> Saeed Khan [email protected] asked :
> I want to add a second monitor to my Quadra 650.
[SNIP]
FranCois Lombard ([email protected]) replied:
> You need any nubus Card from apple (there was a lovely 8/24 for maybe 200$
> last time i looked.
[SNIP]
> Seriously, look around for an old Mac II, IIfx, IICx there should be a
> card inside and just about any would work on that good 13inch Apple
> monitors.
> Try and buy the card alone for real cheap. (stay away from the rare
> accelerated ones even from Apple (8-24GC I think))
There is however, something that you should be aware of with old NuBus
video cards: not all are compatible with System 7.5.3 -- there appears o
be some sort of PRAM conflict with, e.g. the Lapis ProColorServer 16, and
(I understand) a Radius SuperMac card, and Exceed MacroColor card that
suffer from a similar incompatibility.
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:57:35 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: reverse nslookup
"Prof. F.M. Hoppe" wrote:
>I've been experiencing slow loading when calling up pages on the web. I
>use PM9500 OS (7.5.5) with a Global Village Platinum 28.8, and FreePPP
>2.5. I've mentioned this to my ISP who said no one else has been
>complaining. Maybe I expect more than the average guy. But, I pointed
>out that when I load pages using a virtual domain address (www.foo.com)
>instead of the same page via www.isp.com/foo/ for instance, the virtual
>address loads slower by a factor of at least two.
I don't know whether this might be the same problem I had, but it can't
hurt for you to try it out.
When I switched to my current ISP, I found that certain web sites became
_very_ slow to access -- over 5 minutes to download one page _without_
graphics! My ISP suggested I use their proxy server, so I changed the
appropriate configuration settings in Netscape, and it fixed my problem.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:49:39 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Superdrive working again) !!
Stefano Pelli wrote:
>following my recent plea for help I can announce that my
>drive is working again!
[snip]
> I had to get the drive out of my Mac, and, though from now on it will an
>easy job for me, it was not as easy as I would have liked. I had to remove
>the power supply (easy...), the internal HD (about easy), unscrew the
>plasti holder of FD and HD, remove it form the cabinet, and then get the
>drive. Each operation is not that difficult, but finding the right
>combination of moves took a while, especially if you are a bit worried of
>touching the wrong things...
> In this case I would say that (urghh... how to put this...) PC clones are
>much easier to deal with. I would have just had ot slide the FD out of the
>case, clean it and put it back in place, instead of completely dismantling
>my Mac (in the end only the logic board was left in the cabinet...). I hope
>newer Macs are more accessible...
Yes, they are. My old LC was very accessible, easy to pop the drives out
without even a screwdriver. My new PM 7200 is very accessible too, easy to
get at everything.
I've also dealt with a wide variety of PC clones at work, and I've never
seen any that I would call "accessible". Some were better than others, but
none were in the same class as my LC and PM 7200. It's always been a pain
to add or remove a drive from any of the PCs we've had at work, even the
ones that used drive rails.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 06:31:58 -0400
From: "Bruce O'Neel"
Subject: telnet for mac
At 9:28 -0400 10/2/96, David Turley wrote:
>Is it just me, or is there little to go on when it comes to telnet on a
>Mac? NCSA Telnet-2.7b4 was dropped while still in beta, Comet is a few
>years old, Nifty Telnet has no logging feature (that I can see.) I am
>participtating in a "distance learning" class and need telnet frequently.
>I'm not totally satisfied with any of these choices. Am I being too picky?
Hi,
I'm more than happy with NCSA Telnet 2.6. It seems quite stable and
quick enough.
bruce
[email protected] Bruce O'Neel - "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" --
Rodney Brooks
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 07:35:55 -0700
From: [email protected] (Chuck Wonderly)
Subject: Thanks for the Help
Thanks to Al Bloom and Zoltan Tyeklar who helped me get rid of the
"insert disk" problem in Word 6.0.1.
They both suggested trashing the preferences files "registration data
base" and "PPC registration database".
That did it!
Thanks again.
Chuck
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:52:30 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Type 1, Bus Errors (summary)
Dear Digest readers,
After the survey and several responses, it appears my original assumptions
about the BusError (also known as a type 1 error) were only partly correct.
It is definitely memory related, and for applications and INITs that don't
address memory according to Apple's specifications, that can cause a
variety of problems. Older software that was 24bit addressing compatible
may not be 32bit addressing compatible for the same reasons. This isn't
the case for most old software, but it certainly was the case for Full
Impact 2.0.3s on a PowerMac 7200.
It apparantly has little to do with the processor Bus type, as several
people reported having the same error on 68030 and PowerPC 604 processors.
In short, if you are using RAMDoubler, SpeedDoubler, or Optimem, or Virtual
Memory beware! These may give headaches to non-Apple software products.
If somebody wants to give a fully detailed explanation of the source of the
error, please do.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:06:58 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: video capture card
Aaron Vegh wrote:
>I'm looking for an inexpensive video capture card in the PCI mode for my
>Power Mac 7200. I don't want any super VRAM upgrades, or graphic
>acceleration. I just want a PCI card that allows me to connect a VCR to my
>Mac so I can capture video. That's it.
I've only been able to find one such card, but it can't be used in a Mac
yet. Digital Vision makes a PCI video capture card called ComputerEyes PCI
which sells for about $500us, for Windoze computers. I was told that
they're writing or planning to write Mac software so that the card can be
used in PCI Macs, but as of a couple of months ago they didn't even have an
estimate as to when it might be available.
They also sell a SCSI version, ComputerEyes/RT, which I think is supposedly
able to capture video at 30 frames/second. Available from MacZone for
$380us.
You can find Digital Vision's web page at , or email
them at .
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 4 Oct 96 Volume 14 : Issue 230
Today's Topics:
[*] hsois-app-shell-10a2-c.hqx - A MacOS development shell
[*] Tools Plus 3.1 (4-star libs)
[A] telnet for mac
[Q] Fonts With Macrons?
[Q] MAJOR problems printing HTML from Netscape 3.0 Gold
[Q] Netscape
About this Cyberdog thing...
Appletalk computer-to-computer cable?
CD-ROM drivers (2 msgs)
Icon View gets messed up - A better fix
Info-Mac Digest V14 #229
Mac IIci and modem problems
Macintosh file permissions
More on Finale-Illustrator-Word problem
Mount Windows NT 200MB SyQuest on Mac?
OpenTransport & MacTCP NOT Compatible FAQ
Problems finding the papertrays.
Problems with PPP! Help!!
QuickTime 2.1/2.5 causing crashes. Help!
Re : Adding a second monitor to my Q650
reverse nslookup
Superdrive working again
) !!telnet for mac
Thanks for the Help
Type 1, Bus Errors (summary)
video capture card
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:49:37 -0700
From: [email protected] (John C. Daub)
Subject: [*] hsois-app-shell-10a2-c.hqx - A MacOS development shell
Hsoi's App Shell was a big learning tool for me to learn how to
write MacOS applications in C using Metrowerks CodeWarrior. I
felt that it might be of use to other people, so I wanted to have
it publicly available to the MacOS development community.
So, what can Hsoi's App Shell do or show you how to do? Well,
we'll skip the general things like application development,
human-computer interaction techniques, etc. and just give you
a list of the code-type things:
- How to use WASTE, Marco Piovanelli's WorldScript Aware
Styled Text Engine as a replacement text engine for TextEdit
- How to use the WASTE Object Handlers (Michael Kamprath's
object handling library for WASTE)
- How to impliment Undo
- How to use Gestalt to properly check for system capabilities
- How to use UniversalProcPtr's (both usage and how to create
your own!)
- How to have code that works on both 68k and PPC based Macintoshes
- How to read from and write to files
- How to use CustomGet/PutFile routines with your own custom
dialog filters
- How to use Aliases and take advantage of the Alias Manager
- How to do alerts
- How to Save, Save As, and Revert files
- How to properly deal with locked files
- How to take advantage of temporary files and FSpExchangeFiles
for safe saving techniques
- How to use nifty functions like FindFolder
- How to properly work with resources and the Resource Manager
- How to add name strings to help orphaned document files
- How to do submenus
- How to do dynamic menus (menus created at runtime, like a
Windows menu)
...and lots more little things that you'll just have to look through
the code to find out.
This archive was compiled and written and is maintained by John C.
Daub . Correspondance about this shell
should be directed to that email address (i.e. not the address
at the top of this abstract). This information is current as
of 1 August 1996.
Hope it's useful to you!!
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/hsois-app-shell-10a2-c.hqx; 1410K]
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:45:15 -0700
From: [email protected] (Water's Edge Software)
Subject: [*] Tools Plus 3.1 (4-star libs)
Tools Plus 3.1 libraries for CodeWarrior, THINK C/C++, THINK Pascal. Create
professional looking apps. Automate dialogs, menus, events, etc. Create
integrated, _working_ GUI elements with 1 line of code (ie, create an Edit
menu and it edits!). Many extras: tool bar, floating palettes, the best
picture buttons, sliders, tabs, complete 3D look, plus much more! Easy to
learn and use. Rated 4 stars by Macworld.
For all Macs, PowerMacs and MacOS compatibles
System 7 or higher recommended (System 6 minimum)
Water's Edge Software : Voice: 1-416-219-5628
2441 Lakeshore Road West : Fax: 1-905-847-1638
Box 70022 : Internet: [email protected]
Oakville, Ontario : [email protected]
Canada, L6L 6M9 : CompuServe: 73424,2507
Visit our developer web site at http://www.interlog.com/~wateredg
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/tools-plus-31-demo.hqx; 3324K]
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:02:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan Benatan
Subject: [A] telnet for mac
David ([email protected]) allegedly wrote:
> Is it just me, or is there little to go on when it comes to telnet on a
> Mac? NCSA Telnet-2.7b4 was dropped while still in beta, Comet is a few
> years old, Nifty Telnet has no logging feature (that I can see.)
By "logging", do you mean scrollback?
I think I can safely reveal that a newer version of NiftyTelnet with
configurable scrollback is in late beta; I am using it to write this
and I like it a lot.
There are also some commercial options such as VersaTerm, but I hardly
see a reason to use them.
Cheers,
Ethan
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 10:23:22 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling"
Subject: [Q] Fonts With Macrons?
Does anyone know of any fonts with macrons? Also, are there any good Greek
fonts out there? Our Latin/Greek teacher wants to know.
Thanks!
keg
* Keith E Gatling * [email protected] * http://web.syr.edu/~kgatling *
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:21:43 -0400
From: [email protected] (Bill Edwards)
Subject: [Q] MAJOR problems printing HTML from Netscape 3.0 Gold
This is on a Powerbook 2300c with 44 MB of RAM, running System 7.5.5.
Netscape is partitioned to 20000K. I was attempting to print to an HP
Laserjet 4M (which was erroring out with ERROR 40). I found that I could
not print more than one HTML file in a row without my system freezing.
Further, printing Netscape-owned HTML files from the Finder caused Netscape
to sit there and blink the buttons on the button bar. This glitch was
repeatable.
The HTML files use a couple of very small images. Has anybody run across
such Netscape printing problems? Any way around them, other than using an
older version of Netscape (on a Unix system, which is what I finally did)?
Please respond by email to [email protected], and I will summarize. I
am restraining myself from a massive flame of Netscape and all its works...
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 13:20:29 -0500
From: Erik M Hjelle
Subject: [Q] Netscape
Hi all,
In the Netscape preferences folder there is a file called "MagicCookie."
Does anyone have any idea what this file is for?
Thanks in advance.
Erik Hjelle
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 23:39:08 EDT
From: Allan Hunter
Subject: About this Cyberdog thing...
Didja hear about Exponential's successful 500 MHz experimental silicon?
(thinkin' of how a 500 MHz PowerMac would feel
It truly IS nice to see some good news in the world of Mac. I also see
that after being almost written off, OpenDoc is apparently looking good
or at least viable to the computer press folks. I have to confess to
some bewilderment though...
This was gonna be component software architecture, right? They said
giant ponderous softwares such as Word or Photoshop would give way to
sleek elegant bare-bones containers to which we add accessory parts
and have it our way, minus the rococo crud we could do without.
So the big demo app (only free downloadable one so far?) is Cyberdog?
Here I am with Netscape which does web browsing on top of FreePPP
and when I want to download a file I launch Fetch, and YANewswatcher
is ready if I want to dig the newsgroups, and Eudora reads and files
the mail, and there's always ChatNet if I wanna communicate live.
If I want movies to play or audio files to sing or MIDI files to ring
or Java applets to run or if I prefer to swim thru webspace instead of
surfing it, there are dozens of plug-ins and auxiliary programs to grab
that all piggyback on the basic connection and software architecture.
The files I download are unhqxxed and unstuffed courtesy of Stuffit Ex-
pander, graphically viewed later by GraphicConverter, or otherwise
handled by associated helper applications.
So THIS is the world that Apple is gonna take on with (drum roll...)
component architecture??? Admittedly, Netscape is getting bloated and
resource-hungry, but Netscape is to become a container or a part (I
forget which) which is a great Apple triumph or so I'm told...
Oh, none of this is horrible, certainly not if it sells, I'm just kinda
confused and discombobulated by it. I have OpenDoc sitting dormant on my
hard drive, with no Cyberdog because my online stuff is OK and certainly
modular enough thank you (there must be something I'm clueless about?).
But suppose Apple released a container that looked a lot like a cross
between SimpleText and MacWrite classic (e.g., version 4.6) and about
20 different starter-kit optional add-on parts that did things like
footnoting, table editing, spell checking, "styles" managing, string
find/replacing, kerning/justification, outlining, glossary building,
etc etc etc? And within months you could download alternatives that
came into existence as shareware or commercialware or freeware that
perhaps you would like better?
(I'd probably go with something that looked a lot like MacWrite 4.6
minus the one-document-open-at-a-time limitation, plus a footnoter
and a tool for popping in graphic objects (created elsewhere) such
that text would flow around, and otherwise leave off all bells whistles
and button bars and end up with something sleek and highly suited to
my individual taste).
Wouldn't that stick out more as a contrast, and be more accessible to
the average computer-user, than the possibility of custom-configuring
their own internet-accessing kit?
-Allan Hunter
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:48:59 +1000
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: Appletalk computer-to-computer cable?
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #227, Gordon Watts -- Brown University
wrote
> I have a portable. I use a cable I have from my Stylewriter to connect
>the serial ports of my portable and my SE/30, and I run appletalk between
>them.
> Now, I want to run both the stylewriter and keep the connection between the
>se/30 and portable at the same time. So. New cable.
> Well, gee. Seems like the stylewriter cable is pretty weird. I tried the
>"Imagewriter II" version of the serial cable and that didn't work. I thought
>about trying the straight through version of the cable, however, tested the
>working cable with a multimeter first. It is weird: more than one set of pins
>are reversed.
> Where can I get such a cable and what the heck is it called?
Gordon, whoa! You're rushing at this a bit.
Both your cables will just be serial printer cables I hope... and more than
one set of pins _is_ reversed, since in addition to data I/O pins crossing,
the handshaking pins must cross too. (Straight-through cables are used
mostly to connect to data switch boxes and the like...)
Are you using a modem on the SE/30? If not, use your 2nd serial printer
cable and run the Stylewriter from the SE/30's modem port. (Select Modem
Port in the Chooser.) Then you can keep AppleTalk on the printer port of
the machine, and use your existing little AppleTalk network connecting the
portable and SE/30.
Ah! but you're probably using a modem. (I can't imagine you not doing so,
actually:-) Well...
You don't say which Stylewriter you've got. Let's hope it's a 2400/2500.
If so you need: 3 phone net connectors for your network, and the
Stylewriter AppleTalk module; and a couple of lengths of 4-wire phone cable
with RJ11 connectors of course. (That shouldn't be more than about $140
odd.)
Install the Stylewriter AppleTalk Module (at left rear of your
Stylewriter.) Plug the phone net connectors into the Stylewriter, and the
printer ports of the Macs. Have the Stylewriter at one end of the chain.
Make sure the ends are terminated. Turn AppleTalk on on both machines.
Select the Stylewriter in both Choosers. Go!
Hope this helps...
bill
----
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 20:32:00 +0200
From: Jesper Oersted
Subject: CD-ROM drivers
>I have two CD-ROM drives on a Quadra 840AV. One is an Apple drive >(SONY),
>internally mounted; the other is an APS Technologies drive (Toshiba),
>mounted externally.
>I have two drivers: , which is in the >Extensions
>folder, and , which is not.
>Problem:
>1. Neither driver seems to handle the other drive correctly.
>2. The drivers are probably incompatible, so I can't have them both >in the
>Extensions folder at once.
>
>WhaddoIdo?
You should try SCSIProbe 4.3,it will mount just about anything and the
price is right:0$!
Jesper Oersted.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:56:47 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: CD-ROM drivers
At 4:37 PM -0600 10/2/96, Rollo Silver wrote:
>I have two CD-ROM drives on a Quadra 840AV.
>
>WhaddoIdo?
You could buy FWB CD Toolkit. In all likelihood, it will drive both of
them. The list of supported drives is quite long, and includes many Sony
and Toshiba mechanisms.
chazl
10/03/96
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 10:20:01 -0700
From: [email protected] (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: Icon View gets messed up - A better fix
In IM#207, I reported on an occasional problem with the icon view
getting messed up, and in IM#215 I reported on a fix, using
"Snapshotter". My fix caused J. D. Sterling to wonder (in IM#217):
* I can appreciate that Snapshotter would fix the problem if you remembered
* to run it beforehand. What is one supposed to do ... Keep a snapshot of
* ones entire hard drive just in case the icons mess up? Should one take
* a snapshot whenever one moves icons around?
*
* This post is to plead for someone to make a drag and drop application
* that:
* * Changes the icon view to View by small icon (from icon view),
* _without_ changing the icon position. That is, change one
* parameter in the folder without changing the other.
Well, none of the above seems to be needed! I discovered that
Snapshotter already does what JDS pleads for:
(1):
When the small-icon view of a folder gets messed up into large icons
still sitting on the small-icon grid, simply make a Snapshot of that
messed-view IMMEDIATELY, before doing anything else.
(2):
Now change the icon view to small icons, leading to a messed-up grid.
(3):
Finally double-click on that Snapshot you made under (1). That will
restore the old grid, but now with small icons. It may take a few
seconds, so don't panic and mess up the process.
The reason this works is that Snapshotter records only the grid
positions, not the kind of view.
Herb K
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 07:37:37 -0400
From: [email protected] (Dietmar Lichota)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #229
Brainstorm makes Accelerator cards for the MacPlus and the SE (and others I
think.) I recently installed one in a Plus with limited success (means
snipping out old chips and soldering new ones - not for the faint of heart
or unsteady hand) and in an SE with great success (easy - unplug old and
plug in new chip).
If you need the contact info let me know & I will post it when I get home.
regards
Dietmar
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:12:25 +0000
From: "Rozanne Thomson"
Subject: Mac IIci and modem problems
I have a Mac IIcx which works fine with either of two fax-modems.
They are a USRobotics Sportster 14.4, and a Supra Faxmodem 28.8.
However, if I try to use either of these modems on a Mac IIci, I get
messages telling me the port is busy, or "An error occurred when
opening the connection". This happens on three Mac IIci's that I have
tried, and with both modems. I can however print from the Mac IIci's
so the ports are working. I am using Microphone 2.02 with a new
download of the PowerDriver from Intercon. Any ideas about what
What could be causing this problem? Thanks for any ideas.
Supra and USRobotics have not so far come up with any helpful hints.
Setup: System 7.5, no Open Transport.
Please reply directly to me and I will summarize to the digest.
- - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Rozanne Thomson
Systems Analyst, Computer Resources
BCIT, Burnaby BC V5G 3H2. Phone (604)451-7000
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Date: 4 Oct 1996 10:06:45 GMT
From: [email protected] (Content Christophe)
Subject: Macintosh file permissions
Organization: Brussels Free Universities (VUB/ULB), Belgium
Summary:
Keywords:
Hello all,
I'm facing a tricky problem:
I hooked up macs/PPC to controllers with
the aim of acquiring a large amount of data
once a minute say. Data are stored on
the hard drive in a defined structure.
Files are created, apened, opened, closed.
To prevent unexperienced users from trashing
data files I would like to programmatically
protect them. Locking files can be done in
Labview for instance but that won't prevent
a user to drag a file and drop it in the
wastebasket. Moreover if I select a directory
in the finder I can tick the option "Can't be
moved, renamed, deleted" but how to
generalize that to all enclosed folders AND
files? How to do that programatically?
Is there a solution to that problem?
TIA for any hint,
Christophe Content
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:55:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: More on Finale-Illustrator-Word problem
Mac-enthusiasts
First, my thanks to all those who responded with suggestions on my problem
printing Finale/Illustrator EPS files in Word 6.0.1.
Second, let me apologize for implying that Word was necessarily the problem. I
don't know at which point the problem is occuring, and Word 6 is really the
only tool for the job!
I have tried all suggestions to no avail. One thing I have noticed, however, is
that the *first* excerpt I copy after opening Illustrator works fine. All
subsequent items are messed up. Does this mean I'm having a memory problem?
I've used several machines, but I'm primarily using a 7200 with 16 megs real
ram with 28 (or so) virtual. Should VM be turned off? If it is, I don't know if
I have enough to keep Illustrator and Word open simultaneously.
Obviously the workaround is to copy the excerpt, quit Illustrator, paste it
into Word, re-open Illustrator, etc. I have 45 musical examples with an average
of two or three lines each, so this is a real pain!
Any new ideas will help!
Jeff Snider, Assistant Professor of Music
Wartburg College, Waverly, IA USA 50677
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:04:19 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Mount Windows NT 200MB SyQuest on Mac?
[email protected] (Chuck Reti) wrote:
>Our heretofore all-Mac facility recently had to purchase
>a task-specific hardware/software package running on Windows NT platform.
[snip]
>There is a 200MB SyQuest drive onboard; we also have
>200MB SyQuest drives on our Macs. We would like to use our
>Mac-based software to open up and exchange TIFF's on the NT SyQuests.
>No can do. The Macs (Quadra 950's thru 9500's) do not recognize or
>mount the NT SyQuests.
I don't know whether it'll work on NT, but take a look at "Here & Now",
>From (I think) Software Architects. It's a Windows program which allows a
Wintel machine to recognize and access Macintosh disks, and even maps
DOS-style 3-letter file extensions to Mac Creator/Type codes and vice
versa. It supports a variety of removable disks, including SyQuests and
floppies. On Windows 95 it even handles long filenames.
Sorry, I don't have their web page address handy.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 00:02:23 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: OpenTransport & MacTCP NOT Compatible FAQ
Greetings,
It seems this problem is cropping up on the digest time and again.
People are constantly trying to mix and match versions of MacPPP with the wrong
TCP/IP software, or trying to use both MacTCP and OpenTransport on the same
machine.
Both are no-nos!
Here recommended software configurations along with hardware:
Processor Software recommended for Netscape based web browsing.
68020 MacTCP 2.0.6 MacPPP 2.01 Netscape 1.1N System 7.1
68030 MacTCP 2.0.6 MacPPP 2.01 Netscape 1.1N or 2.0.2* System 7.5
68040 OpenTransport 1.1 FreePPP 2.5v2 Netscape 3.0* System 7.5
Update 2.0 (7.5.3)
or 68030 settings will work too.
Performa 5200, 5300, 6200, 6300
MacTCP 2.0.6 MacPPP 2.01 Netscape 1.1N or 2.0.2* System 7.5.2
When OpenTransport 1.1.1 is released
OpenTransport 1.1.1 FreePPP 2.5v2 Netscape 3.0* System 7.5
Update 2.0
PCI PowerMacs 7200, 7500, 7600, 8500, 9500
OpenTransport 1.1 FreePPP 2.5v2 Netscape 3.0* System 7.5 Update 2.0
Powerbooks - I must confess my ignorance here. Maybe somebody would like
to add a
section of what has and hasn't worked.
* Netscape 2.0.2 requires at least 8MB of RAM if you have no plugins
installed, and 14MB of RAM
with plugins installed. Tack on 6MB of RAM for your minimal system RAM
requirements. RAMDoubler,
SpeedDoubler, Optimem (RAM Charger), and Virtual Memory are not
recommended. Netscape 3.0 requires at
least 12MB of RAM, and 15MB of RAM with additional plugins installed.
This is all based on information from the readmes and online help of the
various software packages. Some may be inaccurate.
Standard disclaimers apply.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
Check out my web page at http://www.bayserve.net/~abrody
Suggestions appreciated.
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:03:13 +0100
From: [email protected] (Thomas Kahn)
Subject: Problems finding the papertrays.
Dear Info-Mac readers,
A couple of weeks ago I installed System 7.5 update 2.0 (Swedish version)
on my mothers performa 5200. Before I did this she could choose to print
documents using papers from two separate trays on her Personal Laserwriter;
she just set the right preferences in the printing options. That way she'd
get one kind of paper as the first page in a document, and a different kind
for the following pages.
After I "tangled" with her Macintosh, this does not work anymore. She's
still using the Personal Laserwriter driver, but somehow the update screwed
it up(?) Now I wonder if anyone has a solution to the problem? I haven't
had the opportunity to come to my parents place and help her out, so I
haven't yet had a chance to actually attack this problem, but since I'm not
very good at printerdrivers and laserwriters, I'm asking for some advice
before I attempt to fix it.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas Kahn
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http://www.roundhouse.se
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:02:36 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Problems with PPP! Help!!
David Roche wrote:
>I've been having some problems with my PPP connection as of late...
>
>In the time it takes me to read and/or respond to my email which has
>downloaded from Eudora, my PPP connection is lost... and I have to
>redial... over the course of an hour of email work, I have to dial
>back in 2 or sometimes 3 times! My service provider cuts off "idle"
>connections after 20 minutes...
>
>Is there a small utility available which I can run in the background that
>will keep the PPP
>connection busy, so that I don't lose the connection?
Instead of trying to keep the connection while you're reading & writing
email, why not change your setup so that Eudora doesn't bother sending the
outgoing messages until you tell it to? Eudora can save those messages in
your "Out" mailbox until you decide to send them.
Just turn off the Immediate Send option under the Sending Mail settings.
It'll change the "Send" button in the new-message edit window into a
"Queue" button -- all messages that you write will be queued (saved) until
you tell Eudora to send them. The "Send Queued Messages" menu command
tells Eudora to send any outgoing messages that are waiting to be sent.
There's also a "Send on check" option -- if this is checked, then whenever
you fetch your mail, Eudora will also send any outgoing messages that are
waiting to be sent.
If you don't like that idea, you could try turning on Eudora's "Check every
xxx minutes" option, so that Eudora will check for incoming mail every 15
minutes. That activity ought to keep your ISP from hanging up.
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 14:53:18 -0700
From: Michael Rundle
Subject: QuickTime 2.1/2.5 causing crashes. Help!
Quicktime versions 2.1 and 2.5
Mac Classic II (68030) 10MB ram + VM on, Systems 7.5.3 and 7.5.5
I have been having trouble with Quicktime for several months. I will
turn on my computer one day to find that it will start up only to the
point that it would normally show the desktop, then it stops. All
extensions have loaded, mouse cursor moves, but no desktop icons or menu
commands. I tracked down the guilty extension to QuickTimed (then
2.1). I could start up with Quicktime as my only extension and the same
thing would happen. I downloaded a fresh copy from apple and
reinstalled. Same problem. Only after I had reinstalled a brand new
system folder with a brand new quicktime would the problem be solved.
After a couple of months, for no reason I can explain, the same thing
happens again. I install a new System folder, problem solved.
I just upgraded to System 7.5.5, and QuickTime 2.5 and now have the same
problem.
This problem feels to me like the same kind of problem when a
preferences file gets corrupted, but quicktime has no preferences file.
Right? Any suggestions appreciated
Michael Rundle
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 13:51:52 +0100 (BST)
From: Russ Bubley
Subject: Re : Adding a second monitor to my Q650
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 22:09:29 +0200
From: [email protected] (FranCois Lombard)
Subject: Re : Adding a second monitor to my Q650
> Saeed Khan [email protected] asked :
> I want to add a second monitor to my Quadra 650.
[SNIP]
FranCois Lombard ([email protected]) replied:
> You need any nubus Card from apple (there was a lovely 8/24 for maybe 200$
> last time i looked.
[SNIP]
> Seriously, look around for an old Mac II, IIfx, IICx there should be a
> card inside and just about any would work on that good 13inch Apple
> monitors.
> Try and buy the card alone for real cheap. (stay away from the rare
> accelerated ones even from Apple (8-24GC I think))
There is however, something that you should be aware of with old NuBus
video cards: not all are compatible with System 7.5.3 -- there appears o
be some sort of PRAM conflict with, e.g. the Lapis ProColorServer 16, and
(I understand) a Radius SuperMac card, and Exceed MacroColor card that
suffer from a similar incompatibility.
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:57:35 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: reverse nslookup
"Prof. F.M. Hoppe" wrote:
>I've been experiencing slow loading when calling up pages on the web. I
>use PM9500 OS (7.5.5) with a Global Village Platinum 28.8, and FreePPP
>2.5. I've mentioned this to my ISP who said no one else has been
>complaining. Maybe I expect more than the average guy. But, I pointed
>out that when I load pages using a virtual domain address (www.foo.com)
>instead of the same page via www.isp.com/foo/ for instance, the virtual
>address loads slower by a factor of at least two.
I don't know whether this might be the same problem I had, but it can't
hurt for you to try it out.
When I switched to my current ISP, I found that certain web sites became
_very_ slow to access -- over 5 minutes to download one page _without_
graphics! My ISP suggested I use their proxy server, so I changed the
appropriate configuration settings in Netscape, and it fixed my problem.
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:49:39 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: Superdrive working again
) !!Stefano Pelli wrote:
>following my recent plea for help I can announce that my
>drive is working again!
[snip]
> I had to get the drive out of my Mac, and, though from now on it will an
>easy job for me, it was not as easy as I would have liked. I had to remove
>the power supply (easy...), the internal HD (about easy), unscrew the
>plasti holder of FD and HD, remove it form the cabinet, and then get the
>drive. Each operation is not that difficult, but finding the right
>combination of moves took a while, especially if you are a bit worried of
>touching the wrong things...
> In this case I would say that (urghh... how to put this...) PC clones are
>much easier to deal with. I would have just had ot slide the FD out of the
>case, clean it and put it back in place, instead of completely dismantling
>my Mac (in the end only the logic board was left in the cabinet...). I hope
>newer Macs are more accessible...
Yes, they are. My old LC was very accessible, easy to pop the drives out
without even a screwdriver. My new PM 7200 is very accessible too, easy to
get at everything.
I've also dealt with a wide variety of PC clones at work, and I've never
seen any that I would call "accessible". Some were better than others, but
none were in the same class as my LC and PM 7200. It's always been a pain
to add or remove a drive from any of the PCs we've had at work, even the
ones that used drive rails.
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 06:31:58 -0400
From: "Bruce O'Neel"
Subject: telnet for mac
At 9:28 -0400 10/2/96, David Turley wrote:
>Is it just me, or is there little to go on when it comes to telnet on a
>Mac? NCSA Telnet-2.7b4 was dropped while still in beta, Comet is a few
>years old, Nifty Telnet has no logging feature (that I can see.) I am
>participtating in a "distance learning" class and need telnet frequently.
>I'm not totally satisfied with any of these choices. Am I being too picky?
Hi,
I'm more than happy with NCSA Telnet 2.6. It seems quite stable and
quick enough.
bruce
[email protected] Bruce O'Neel - "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" --
Rodney Brooks
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 07:35:55 -0700
From: [email protected] (Chuck Wonderly)
Subject: Thanks for the Help
Thanks to Al Bloom and Zoltan Tyeklar who helped me get rid of the
"insert disk" problem in Word 6.0.1.
They both suggested trashing the preferences files "registration data
base" and "PPC registration database".
That did it!
Thanks again.
Chuck
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:52:30 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Type 1, Bus Errors (summary)
Dear Digest readers,
After the survey and several responses, it appears my original assumptions
about the BusError (also known as a type 1 error) were only partly correct.
It is definitely memory related, and for applications and INITs that don't
address memory according to Apple's specifications, that can cause a
variety of problems. Older software that was 24bit addressing compatible
may not be 32bit addressing compatible for the same reasons. This isn't
the case for most old software, but it certainly was the case for Full
Impact 2.0.3s on a PowerMac 7200.
It apparantly has little to do with the processor Bus type, as several
people reported having the same error on 68030 and PowerPC 604 processors.
In short, if you are using RAMDoubler, SpeedDoubler, or Optimem, or Virtual
Memory beware! These may give headaches to non-Apple software products.
If somebody wants to give a fully detailed explanation of the source of the
error, please do.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:06:58 -0500
From: "Wayne C. Morris"
Subject: video capture card
Aaron Vegh wrote:
>I'm looking for an inexpensive video capture card in the PCI mode for my
>Power Mac 7200. I don't want any super VRAM upgrades, or graphic
>acceleration. I just want a PCI card that allows me to connect a VCR to my
>Mac so I can capture video. That's it.
I've only been able to find one such card, but it can't be used in a Mac
yet. Digital Vision makes a PCI video capture card called ComputerEyes PCI
which sells for about $500us, for Windoze computers. I was told that
they're writing or planning to write Mac software so that the card can be
used in PCI Macs, but as of a couple of months ago they didn't even have an
estimate as to when it might be available.
They also sell a SCSI version, ComputerEyes/RT, which I think is supposedly
able to capture video at 30 frames/second. Available from MacZone for
$380us.
You can find Digital Vision's web page at , or email
them at .
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