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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 23 Oct 96 Volume 14 : Issue 248
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#350/21-Oct-96
(?) make graph paper
(Q) Lotus Organiser alike for Mac?
7600/120 external microphone
[A] Creating a txt file of the contents of a folder
[A] Formula Editor For Use With CalrisWorks 4
[A] X-terminal emulation for Mac
[Q] Playing external CD sound on a Centris 610's internal speaker
[Q] Turning A Mac Into Win95?!?
[Q] Weird spacing when printing to StyleWriter II
A: Postscript printing
Apple Guide
At Ease and Screen Savers
Creating a txt file of the contents of a folder (2 msgs)
Disk Copy 4.2
DiskCopy 4.2 & 800k Disks
Disk Images - Can't See Them with DiskCopy 4.2
Help w/Visual Basic, Excel 6.0 & 2-D arrays...
Info-Mac Digest V14 #242 [*] io-folders-chess
LW 8.4 (One Last? Time)
making it easier to get software from infomac (q)
more ?? Printing a PS file with LW 8.4
Performa 6200 & the Internet
Postscript printing
powerbase for programming?
RAM for Powerbooks performance
SCSI is scuzzy!
Software only? D0n't do it
Trying to contact Adobe
Universal System Disk
Use ResEdit to up memory allocation?
Welding desktop icons to the desktop?
WWW Browser for 68000 mac?
zip-disk startup summary
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:58:04 -0700
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#350/21-Oct-96
TidBITS#350/21-Oct-96
Apple tops our headlines this week with a $25 million profit for its fourth
fiscal quarter this year! Other announcements include the just-introduced
PowerBook 1400 series and important news for GeoPort users. Also this week,
Adam shares an obscure tip for speeding up Power Macintoshes by way of the
WorldScript Power Adapter and Steve Becker weighs in with a review of the
powerful utility OneClick.
Topics:
MailBITS/21-Oct-96
Apple Announces the PowerBook 1400
WorldScript Power Adapter Speed Increase
OneClick - A Super Utility
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-350.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:12:33 -0500
From: [email protected] (james f. palmer)
Subject: (?) make graph paper
I am looking for a program or template to make graph paper with a
centemeter grid and 100 dots at 1/10th cm. points within each cell. When
printed on transparent plastic, such a dot grid is used for taking
measurements from a map. After months of searching for a commercial supply
in the US, I am resigned that it is another example of stonewalling the
metric system. I have tried to draw the grid in Cavas 5, but the
measurements are not accurate.
Thanks, Jim Palmer, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY 13210
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:02:43 +0000
From: [email protected] (Quentin North)
Subject: (Q) Lotus Organiser alike for Mac?
Is anyone aware of a Lotus Organiser clone for the Mac? The reason for this
is that I particularly like the user interface of Lotus Organiser 1.x which
in my opinion is simple, intuitive and fulfills all I could want from it.
All the organiser type products I have so-far seen on the Mac seem to just
not have the instant appeal and ease of use that Lotus Organiser does for
me.
For those who have not seen Organiser it literally uses a personal
organiser look and feel with pages, tabbed seperators between sections, tab
indexed address section along with a spine which the pages turn about (ie
they have backs and fronts).
Thanks in advance.
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:42:01 +0000
From: Tom Wilson
Subject: 7600/120 external microphone
Has anyone experienced problems with the external PlainTalk microphone
on the 7600/120? I noticed shortly after I bought mine that Speech
Recognition occassionally did not release all of the system resources
(or so it seemed) and occassionally, SimpleSound would not work
immediately after using Speech Recognition. Then, for some reason,
the PlainTalk Microphone sensitivity dropped dramatically and got very
noisey. There have been a few times when tossing the finder prefs and
rebooting solved the problem. Other times, it seemed that running
Norton Utilities magically resulted in a fix. Now, however, I'm
thinking that it's a hardware problem of some sort.
Whatever the case, the CD works great, the external sound inputs work
great, but the microphone doesn't always work. I can't believe there
is anything wrong with the mic since they're so darned simple and
reliable. I just don't know what to try next.
Ideas?
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 17:39:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [A] Creating a txt file of the contents of a folder
> "Norm Steffen" wrote:
>Subject: Creating a txt file of the contents of a folder
>
>There are times when a command line would be so sweet....
>
>C:\data\ dir > dirlist.txt would be so easy.
>
>Can anyone suggest a methodology to create a text file which contains the file
>names in a folder?
MacShell is a (partial) implementation of a Unix c-shell for the Mac. Type
ls foldername > dirlist.txt
to do the job.
MacShell is Archived as /info-mac/gui/mac-shell-054b.hqx
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:29:46 +0200
From: Oliver Hammrich
Subject: [A] Formula Editor For Use With CalrisWorks 4
Ulf Dittmer wrote:
> I am looking for a formula editor to use with CalrisWorks 4.
> The CW FAQ suggests MathType or Expressionist, since they
> both support EGO, so they have nice integration with CW.
> Has anyone experience with these (or any other products)?
> I tried to find these online, but had no luck. Can they
> still be bought, and if so, where and for how much?
There are Web pages for MathType (by Design Science)
and Expressionist (by Prescience, Waterloo Maple)
,
where you can find features, pricing, and order information.
Happy Macing,
Oliver Hammrich.
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:45:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Albert L. Ting"
Subject: [A] X-terminal emulation for Mac
>Does anyone know of a low cost (preferably shareware or PD and/or available
>as a demo) X-Terminal emulator for the Mac. I have heard of MacX but have
>been unable to turn up any info on it. Ideally the X emulator should be
>"tunable" for 28.8 PPP modem connection.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Quentin
It's not shareware but I've been using White Pine's Exodus software to do
just what you're asking. Works great on a powermac. Check out
to download a complete demo.
Albert
--
Albert L. M. Ting * mail:[email protected] * phone:408-487-5327 * fax:408-453-3500
VLSI Libraries Incorporated, 2077 Gateway Place, Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95110
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 96 11:44:36 -0400
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [Q] Playing external CD sound on a Centris 610's internal speaker
Greetings all.
I have an external CD ROM on my a centris 610 running system 7.5.3. My basic
question is, How do I listen to audio CD from the Mac's internal speaker?
The apple Tech info library states that either:
1) One must use external speakers or headphones (this is because there is no d
data path over the SCSI cacble for audio)
2) Or, connect the CD ROM drive's RCA jacks to the Microphone port,
' This signal can then be
connected to the sound input jack on the Macintosh for playback
on the internal speaker(s), provided that the computer involved
supports playthrough from the microphone port.'
Well, when I go to the sounds control pannel, the options box in the
'Sound In' section is grayed out
Does this mean that my computer does not 'support playthrough from
the microphone port.'?
I can see that the signal gets to the microphone, since I can record little
snippets as alert sounds.
Is what I want to do feizable??.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Romulo Romero
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:45:45 -0400
From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
Subject: [Q] Turning A Mac Into Win95?!?
Yes, I am (for a joke) turning my Mac OS into Windows 95. What i need are
pictures from windows such as the startup screen, cloud background, start
button, etc. I have icons and will use churchwindows 2 for the windows (if
i can get it working). Sounds would be great too! especially beep sounds. I
want to show my PC friend how customizable a mac is!
Andrew
(I'm still a faithful mac user, don't worry!)
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:47:51 +0100
From: William Reichard
Subject: [Q] Weird spacing when printing to StyleWriter II
Here are the ingredients: Mac 7200/75, System 7.5.5, Stylewriter II,
using Stylewriter 1200 driver 2.1.1. Here's the result: When I print
text with unusal spacing in it (e.g., kerned in QuarkXPress), the
spacing gets garbled. Some letters overlap, others are far too loose.
Anybody else have this problem? Know how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
--Will
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:04:36 -0800
From: Roger Brier
Subject: A: Postscript printing
Re: Ed Friedman
>Is there any way to print a postscript file using the standard Mac OpSys or
>typical software like Word?
The easy (and expensive) way is to have a postscript compatible laser
printer.
Since a lot of us only have quickdraw printers the problem is to find a
postscript interpreter that allows you to ultimately view and print
postscript files.
The expensive interpreter is Adobe Distiller which can convert to PDF format.
The less expensive option is to go to a Kinkos Copy center and have them
dump your file to a laser printer (at 30 to 75 cents a page). When you have
a 148 page users manual to print (like I did) this also becomes a
relatively expensive option.
The free (except for your time and disk space) options that I have found
are as follows:
Mac GS. This is the latest Ghostscript application for the Mac. It does not
work well for me at all. It crashes my 6116 regularly and does not allow
printing of each page of the ps document as you go. It only allows you to
interrupt and then save the current page as a PICT file, then start over
and do a linear search for the next page, interrupt, another PICT
file,...and so on. The viewing and printed text is also very poor quality.
ViewPS. This older (but not much) application for the Mac actually works
very well but is still quirky. It allows you to go linearly through the
document and to view and print each page as you go from within the
application. The print quality is also very good.
Roger Brier
[email protected]
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Date: 20 Oct 1996 19:56:21 +0000
From: "K.J.McConway (Kevin McConway)"
Subject: Apple Guide
Does anyone have any ideas on the following Apple Guide problem? This is on an
LC475 with 20MB of RAM. After upgrading to system 7.5.3 shortly after it was
released, I had problems with extensions and control panels not loading at
startup; after a lot of messing round I worked out that the problems could be
avoided by replacing the new version of Apple Guide (2.0.2) that comes with the
system upgrade with the original version (1.something). A week or so later I
tried installing the new version again, and this time there were no problems.
Everything went well till today when I had to get the on-board battery replaced
because PRAM settings were being lost. After the replacement the startup
problems were back, though not until after I'd rebuilt the desktop on the
internal disk. (This took far longer than it normally does.) I spent a lot of
today trying to establish what the problem is. It seems that after Apple Guide
2.0.2 loads on startup, the Mac can't see some of the files in the system
folder, so it doesn't load them. This happens even if I take all the files
except Apple Guide out of the Extensions folder, and all the control panels out
of their folder, so none of them are being loaded at startup, so it can't be a
conflict between INITs. After the startup is complete, for instance, if I look
in the Preferences folder it looks completely empty. However though the files
are certainly still there - if I look for them with Find File they can be
found,
and afterwards if I look again in the Prefs folder, all of them have
reappeared.
If anyone has the least idea what is going on here, I'd be very grateful if
they
could tell me.
TIA
Kevin McConway
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:58:04 -0400
From: [email protected] (Leo G. Leduc)
Subject: At Ease and Screen Savers
Hi everyone!
I'm looking a small screen saver for my Mac IIci running system 7.5.3 and
At Ease. I often leave my computer on At Ease for security reasons and I
find that most screen savers only work under the Finder. So, while on At
Ease, the screen saver doesn't kick in. I was using a small init screen
saver called Eclipse but I found that it created problems with other
extensions.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Leo G. Leduc
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:22:46 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Creating a txt file of the contents of a folder
Norm:
Aha! In my previous message I see that I forgot to mention the name of
Montalcini's great utility: it is called, "List Files 2.5.4 FAT."
-- -------- (Included text) ----------
On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, "Norm Steffen" wrote:
>Can anyone suggest a methodology to create a text file which contains the file
>names in a folder? The file names are all in the MS DOS scheme of 8.3
I considered sending you an AppleScript example that would do what you
asked. However, I will leave that Script as an exercise for the student
, since it turns out Alessandro Levi Montalcini has already written autility that does what you want. It is available in the Info-Mac archives
and from Montalcini himself (from the ReadMe):
>Alessandro Levi Montalcini
>C.so Re Umberto 10
>10121 Torino
>Italy
>
>e-mail: [email protected]
>ftp://ftp.alpcom.it/software/mac/LMontalcini
>ftp://ftp.alpcom.it/software/mac/LMontalcini/alm.html
-- -------- (End included text) ----------
Good luck!
Clint
--
Clint MacDonald |
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:19:58 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Creating a txt file of the contents of a folder
Norm:
On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, "Norm Steffen" wrote:
>Can anyone suggest a methodology to create a text file which contains the file
>names in a folder? The file names are all in the MS DOS scheme of 8.3
I considered sending you an AppleScript example that would do what you
asked. However, I will leave that Script as an exercise for the student
, since it turns out Alessandro Levi Montalcini has already written autility that does what you want. It is available in the Info-Mac archives
and from Montalcini himself (from the ReadMe):
>Alessandro Levi Montalcini
>C.so Re Umberto 10
>10121 Torino
>Italy
>
>e-mail: [email protected]
>ftp://ftp.alpcom.it/software/mac/LMontalcini
>ftp://ftp.alpcom.it/software/mac/LMontalcini/alm.html
Good luck!
Clint
--
Clint MacDonald |
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 23:03:52 +1000
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: Disk Copy 4.2
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #245, [email protected] (Al Bloom) wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Oct, Richard Dahl wrote:
>
>>I have a major problem using Disk Copy 4.2. When I try to copy a disk
>>image to a floppy disk, I get an error -74 and the disk is corrupted.
>>Sometimes I can reformat the disk without problem, and sometimes the disk
>>is permanently corrupted.
>
>Sounds like you're trying to copy an 800k disk, Richard. I'm not sure when
>Diskcopy 4.2 stopped copying 800k disks (destroying the destination disk in
>the process). Somewhere around the introduction of System 7.
>
>I still use DiskCopy 4.2 for copying 1.4m disks. It is so prissy that it
>won't complete anything but a perfect copy. For 800k disks, I use Norton
>Utilities' "Floppier" program.
Al, this is interesting. I can't reproduce it at all. Disk Copy 4.2 is
still copying 800K DDFD's perfectly for me. I 'spose I'm particularly
conscious of this since I ran a Mac II for an unjustifiably long time, and
never upgraded the FD.
I've just now grabbed the first 800K floppy which came to hand, and made 4
copies of it with Disk Copy 4.2. I've tested each with Disk First Aid,
Norton and MacTools Clinic. All copies passed perfectly.
-74 is a write underrun - nasty error in which the Mac in copying the disk
runs out of track space while thinking it still has tracks to copy. I'm
using a 68K Mac here - a PB540c under 7.5.5 - and I've never seen the
slightest sign of this one with Disk Copy 4.2.
Richard, it certainly sounds as if your System + Disk Copy is miscounting
data and tracks; are you on a PowerMac, on some system like 7.5.2 by any
chance?
I'd be very curious to know what other folk here know on this one. Al's
got me worried: he's usually right!
bill
----
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:39:29 -0400
From: [email protected] (Al Bloom)
Subject: DiskCopy 4.2 & 800k Disks
I suspect I was perfectly correct in telling an I-M colleague that his
DiskCopy 4.2 problem was due to trying to copy an 800k disk. Doctor, it
hurts when I do this. Don't do that. Ta-dum-dum.
However, I got a note this morning saying "I've never had any problem
copying 800k disks with DiskCopy. Have I just been lucky?"
My curiosity was piqued. I had not even tried an 800k copy in the past
year or so. OK, let's snoop. Sure nuff, destination disk death on my PPC.
Try the Q650. It copied! Try the IIci. It copied!
I suspect Apple had some sort of stealth upgrade (All machines now running
Sys 7.5.5) since last I tried DiskCopy on an 800k floppy. The puppy seems
to work admirably on 030 and 040 Macs.
Once bitten, twice shy. Had I not received that note this morning, I'd
never have known that DiskCopy was now working on 800k disks, at least on
the 68k machines under my purview.
I suppose this episode should teach me something.
Al Bloom
Al Bloom, Virginia Tech
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:22:16 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Disk Images - Can't See Them with DiskCopy 4.2
At 9:59 PM -0700 10/20/96, Marvin P Haagsma wrote:
>I have a problem restoring disk image files that were created from
>floppies, and are currently on a CD. When I try to use Disk Copy 4.2 to
>Load the Image file (first step in getting them back into a floppy) the
>finder window just does not see the titles.
The mostlikely explanation is that the files are not DiskCopy disk images.
I would imagine that they are DART or DiskDup images.
My recommendation would be to get a copy of ShrinkWrap
. It can read, mount, and write
to floppy almost any disk image format you're likely to run into.
Supported Image File Formats:
ShrinkWrap
ShrinkWrap Self-Mounting
ImageMaster
Apple DiskCopy 4.2
Apple DiskCopy 5.0d1 - 6.0
Apple Disk Image Mounter
Apple DART 1.5.1 - 1.5.3
DiskMaker 1.3
PC Exchange Drive Containers
DropDisk 1.0b5
DiskDup+
Norton Floppier
CPS FastCopy (uncompressed)
Microsoft Disk Image Utility (.IMG)
Winimage (.IMA)
It can mount all of these as locked disks to the desktop. It can convert
all of them to ShrinkWrap images.
ShrinkWrap fully rocks.
Oh, another thing. You can use it to create disk images of arbitrary size,
so you can make a special Netscape cache disk to keep the b-tree damage
away from your boot disk, or make images of CDs, etc.
IMHO, ShrinkWrap is as essential as Stuffit Expander.
chazl
10.22.96
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Date: 18 Oct 96 00:17:22 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Help w/Visual Basic, Excel 6.0 & 2-D arrays...
Subject Help w/Visual Basic, Excel 6.0 & 2-D arrays... 16.10.=
96
19:28
I AM sorry to bother you all with this, but I've been wracking my brains =
out on how to solve what is nominally a trivial problem.
Namely, I have a 2-D (or 3-D) array and I want to pull out a column and =
assign it to a different 1-D array and can't seem to figure out how to do =
this WITHOUT using a FOR loop (the 2-D array is a lookup table, the 1st =
column being an ID string & the 2nd the desired text string; the 1-D array =
is a Listbox's text list).
Additionally, I'd like to be able to do a search on one column of a 2-D =
array but Application.Match(value,My2DArray,0) returns an error (if I =
could extract a column from the 2-D I could feed it to the Match function =
and everything would be fine...).
I can, of course, make the 2-D array a Range instead, but this doesn't =
work (as far as I know) for 3-D arrays (i.e., there is a .Columns and .=
Rows property but nothing for the 3rd dimension).
If anyone out there has any idea how to solve this I would be EXTREMELY =
grateful!
MUCH TIA,
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
P.S.- since this isn't explicitly a Mac question, if anyone knows of a =
better place to address my Excel questions in the future I am more than =
open to suggestions...
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:35:07 -0400
From: [email protected] (Midge Kocen)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #242 [*] io-folders-chess
Hi
Is it taboo to leave folders on the desktop? What happens if you do? I ask
because, when I download something and want to make sure I want to keep it,
I leave the folder on the Desk top.
TIA
Midge Kocen
>Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:27:52 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Dwayne Petrey)
>Subject: [*] io-folders-chess
>
>Collection of folders/desktop patterns designed to break the taboo of
>leaving folders on the desktop by compartmentalizing the desktop into
>little chess squares and providing folders which belong on them. A
>functional chess game with a mix of traditional and non-traditional
>pieces. One of the most attractive chess sets available for the Mac.
>
>[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/io-folders-chess.hqx; 140K]
Midge Kocen
Midget Services
Plymouth, Montserrat
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:42:24 -0400
From: [email protected] (Al Bloom)
Subject: LW 8.4 (One Last? Time)
I was more right in my original trashing of LW 8.4 than I was when I said
it was pretty good except I couldn't get multiple copies from MacWrite Pro.
And I had misread Ric Ford's "MacWeek" article. You can indeed Custom Install
LW 8.4 without the two Desktop Printer entries in the "custom" menu. But it
still installs the Desktop Printer extension. Ric said you can't live without
that extension, not that you can't live without DTP.
However.
About 3:00 this Friday afternoon, my Immediate Lord and Master (whom I'd
just given LW 8.4 to maybe solve one of his problems) came to me wimpering
that he could no longer print to our color printer (HP DJ1200cps). I hate
it when he wimpers.
Sure nuff. PowerPoint looked like it was printing his slides. But the HP
acknowledged nothing. I tried printing to one of our LWs. Fine. I tried
printing one of my own PowerPoint presentations to the HP. Nuthin. He and
I had the only LW drivers of the 8.4 persuasion. I detected a pattern.
I rewound ILM to LW 8.3.4. Magically, the HP driver (basically a LaserJet
of the LW7 ilk) did its thing. I did the same to my machine. Equal success.
LW 8.4 just might work fine on Apple LaserWriter printers, but it seems it
can kill other-vendor printer drivers.
But the LW 8.4 episode was not a complete waste. ILM had been griping about
the earlier driver. I think he'll be a tad gentler in the future. Under 8.4
he couldn't get Excel to print in landscape until I told him about the trick
of switching from "small letter" to "US letter" I'd read about here. And he
really loved having to pop down to the "Excel" entry in the print pop-up
to get the "print only selection" option that he used to get explicitly in
the main 8.3.x print dialog.
With apologies to LLoyd Bentson, I know the LaserWriter driver. The Laserwriter
driver is a friend of mine. LW 8.4 is no LaserWriter driver.
In the colorful faux Southernism, LW 8.4 sucks toads.
Al Bloom
Al Bloom, Virginia Tech
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:10:20 -0700
From: "David L. Hirschberg"
Subject: making it easier to get software from infomac (q)
Dear Infomac,
Is there a way to format info-mac so that users can use Eudora to grab the
software with a mouse click?
For example info-mac gives me something that looks like this:
[Archived as /info-mac/app/word-trans-swedish.hqx; 150K]
Is there a way it could be formatted so it would look like this:
ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/info-mac ... wedish.hqx ; 150K
I am not sure if it is possible to be able to set up infomac so that you
could specify a default ftp site and currently eudora does not have a
search and replace function. Maybe that is something info-mac and qualcomm
could work together on in future releases. Does anyone else have any idea
or suggestions on this?
Sincerely, David
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:38:12 -0700
From: [email protected] (Bob Durst)
Subject: more ?? Printing a PS file with LW 8.4
Thanks for the replies to try Printer Defaults, but even the author admits
that it won't do what I want.
Here was the original query again.
>We need to "print" to a postscript file that will be sent to a service
>bureau for final printing. I have the PPD for their printer and have
>associated it with a printer that isn't normally used (couldn't seem to
>just create a dummy printer, but had to modify one that I could see in the
>chooser-is there a better way?). The problem is that inexperienced users
>are failing to remember to change the destination from "Printer" to "File"
>when they finally go to save the PS file. The saved defaults (PS level,
>font inclusion etc.) work ok, but I see no way to make "File" the default.
Apparently 8.4 has changed the way each printer is remembered, and each
printer has it's own configuration file rather than using the driver for
all of them. This looks like a good move for what I want to do, but no one
has responded with a solution.
I looked through the configuration file with ResEdit but didn't see any way
to change it. Changing the selection names (swapping File and Print)
changes the menu, but not the functionality. Anyone better at ResEdit care
to shed some light here.
-Bob D.
--
"Most people think solutions mean finding answers, but to chemists
solutions mean all mixed up".
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:29:46 -0600
From: [email protected] (S. F. Sobczynski)
Subject: Performa 6200 & the Internet
First...let me thank everyone that responded...the Info-Mac group came
through again.
My original problem and question that I sent in was related to getting a
Performa 6200 communicating at a reasonable speed on the Internet.
Through-put on the system was averaging 10-20 bytes (not kbytes) per
second. Keeping everything the same in the configuration except the CPU
would result in through-put of 1-2 kbytes per second.
Several people responded with the solution...
For some reason using RamDoubler (no matter what version) on the Performa
6200 messes with the communications ports. Using virtual memory strangely
enough does not have the same effect. So removing RamDoubler and turning on
virtual memory has resulted in through-put of 1-2 kbytes and a happy
client.
Thanks again,
Stan Sobczynski - [email protected]
Sigma 4, Inc. - www.sigma4.com
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:37:00 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Postscript printing
At 3:22 PM -0700 10/21/96, Ed Friedman wrote:
>Is there any way to print a postscript file using the standard Mac OpSys or
>typical software like Word?
Sure. If you're using a recent LaserWriter driver, by which I mean 7.1.2
or higher, there's a control right in the print dialog to select between
printing to the printer or to a PostScript file.
If you don't have an actual AppleTalk LaserWriter on your network, there is
a patch application in the infomac archives [dmm laserwriter patches?] that
will enable you to use the LaserWriter driver without actually requiring
you to be connected physically to one.
Alternatively, Adobe's version of LW 8, PSPrinter 8.3.1 (available at
) supports
printing to "virtual printers", which amount to the same thing: they allow
PS file generation without an actual connection to a LaserWriter.
chazl
10.22.96
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 18:42:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Baker"
Subject: powerbase for programming?
hi. i'm considering getting a powerbase (probably 180) to replace my quadra
660av. i plan to do a fair amount of progrmming (proud new owner of
codewarrior--although i then realized i needed a new computer). i've read good
reviews of the powerbase line (and i am on a low budget), but none of the
reviews that i've seen are from the perspective of using the machine for
programming. what is the collective opinion of the info-mac tribe? for
instance, they say that although i'll be able to upgrade to future 603-family
processors, they doubt i'll be able to upgrade to a 604 in this box. should
that worry me? what is the functional difference between the two (yes, 604 is
faster, but they say 603e at 180MHz is approximately equal to 604 at
120MHz). opinions? (info on other clones is fine by me--i don't know enough
about them.)
--
-+- David P. Baker * [email protected] * http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dpb/ -+-
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 96 18:52:47 +0100
From: "Vidal Ibanez, juan carlos"
Subject: RAM for Powerbooks performance
I have an Apple powerbook 5300cs and would like to increase its RAM
memory, but I am a bit confused. There are considerable diferences
among manufacturers and stores prices. Is there significant technical
differences from manufacturers?. What about the performance of the
diferent memory cards (cost, warming, compatibility, weigth, speed,
...)?.
Thank you in advance.
=====================
[email protected]
SPAIN
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:49:46 +0100
From: Richard Smith
Subject: SCSI is scuzzy!
David.E.Kelley wrote:
>>From: David Roche
>> Subject: SCSI is scuzzy!
>>
>> hi again,
>>
>> *sigh* I'm having SCSI problems...
>>
>> I'm using a Microtek Scanmaker E3 scanner and a ZIP drive...
>Scanners and Zips are two of the most troublesome devices to chain
>successfully.
>Good quality, matching cables are a must.
I'd agree with that!!
>I'm confused by your reference to the Chooser, however. The SCSI ID on the Zip
>is set by a toggle switch next to the termination switch on the back of the
>device. The Chooser shouldn't even show the Zip or the scanner, let alone
>their
>SCSI IDs. Likewise your Scanner's SCSI ID is probably set by a switch on the
>device somewhere.
However, the Microtek scanner _will_ appear in the Chooser, though - and
you are offered the choice of SCSI ID. I'm fairly sure that it's an oddity
of Ofoto, but that's how it works. Something to do with being able to
select one of several scanners for use with a graphics package.
I used to have all sorts of problems with my Microtek 600GS until I:
1. Put it on the end of the SCSI chain
2. Used a top-quality cable
3. Used an active terminator
I've used the same set-up on a Mac IIfx, on my Quadra 950 and a Duo 250 (+
Duo Dock) without any problems at all.
Hope this helps.......
Richard Smith
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:32:36 +0100
From: [email protected] (Trevor Harris)
Subject: Software only? D0n't do it
Just to add my voice to others on the subject. I value the help given by
INFO-MAC readers. I usually skip the software section but *always* look at
the QA bits. I have no access to newsgroups and INFO-MAC is often a
lfesaver. The bottom line, don't change a winning format.
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 10:51:26 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Trying to contact Adobe
Dear Digest readers,
I go to Adobe's web page, and there is no place to contact anybody in
reference to a bug I have found with Adobe Type Manager. It consistently
crashes my PowerMac 7200/75, and therefor makes it impossible for me to
view PDF documents on the Net, as that requires Adobe Type Manager to be
active when Acrobat or Amber plugin is loaded. I don't want to make a long
distance phone call to Adobe to get this problem resolved.
If someone knows of an e-mail address I can contact somebody at Adobe about
this problem, please let me know.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 96 12:05:33 -0400
From: kazar
Subject: Universal System Disk
I'd like to make a Universal System Disk since I keep running into
situations where clients cannot find their original Mac software, or for
some reason I'm having problems making, let's say, a Disk Doctor start-up
disk that will work with their machine.
The instructions that came with the 7.5 Update 2 CD say that to make a
Universal System Disk, you must start with System 7.5, that 7.5.1 and
7.5.2 won't work.
Where can I get a copy of 7.5.0? My Performa came with 7.5.1.
Further, Apple's instructions are very confusing. They say to open the
7.5 Installer, choose Custom, and click in a little box to indicate you
are making the USD. This seems to indicate that the USD was a feature
available with the original System 7.5.0 disks, and doesn't indicate
where the 7.5 Update 2 CD comes into play.
What am I missing. Can someone set me in the right direction?
TIA,
Ilyse Kazar
Save the Day
small business solutions
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:50:33 -0400
From: [email protected] (Greg Tomlinson)
Subject: Use ResEdit to up memory allocation?
Can someone tell me how to up the memory allocation for GlobalVillage
Teleport Serial Control Panel using ResEdit? Please reply to
Thanks In advance.
Greg.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:13:13 -0700
From: Dieder Bylsma
Subject: Welding desktop icons to the desktop?
Anybody know of a program that would automatically adjust my desktop icons
to fit to the edge of my screen no matter what resolution I am using? This
would be particularly useful when going from a high-resolution screen (1024
x 768) to 640 x 480 and not having all the icons that I've lined up on the
bottom left part of the screen and the right edge of the screen get all
jumbled up in 640 x 480 and not revert to their original positions when the
resolution is changed.
Any suggestions appreciated
thx,
Dieder
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:55:29 -0700
From: Dieder Bylsma
Subject: WWW Browser for 68000 mac?
Anyone know of a WWW Browser for a 68000 mac that is fairly current or up
to date? Currently we have MacWeb 1.1.1 (?), but are looking for any other
WWW browsers that support the 68000 macs. That is to say, WWW browsers that
do not require ColorQuickDraw. If they can handle/dither graphics into B&W
that'd be an added bonus.
Thanks,
Dieder
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 18:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Baker"
Subject: zip-disk startup summary
hi. i asked a while ago why i wasn't able to start up from my zip disk. thanks
to all who responded. the solution turned out to be pretty simple: by dragging
the system and finder out of and then back into the system folder on the zip,
the zip acquired boot tracks which allowed it to be used as a startup if it
was in the drive at power-up or reboot. i didn't need to set the startup disk
via the control panel, since the system checks external disks before internal
ones for boot info.
--
-+- David P. Baker * [email protected] * http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dpb/ -+-
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:56:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Owens
On Wed, 16 Oct, Al Bloom wrote:
>
>On Tue, 15 Oct, Richard Dahl wrote:
>
>>I have a major problem using Disk Copy 4.2. When I try to copy a disk
>>image to a floppy disk, I get an error -74 and the disk is corrupted.
>>Sometimes I can reformat the disk without problem, and sometimes the disk
>>is permanently corrupted.
>
>Sounds like you're trying to copy an 800k disk, Richard. I'm not sure when
>Diskcopy 4.2 stopped copying 800k disks (destroying the destination disk in
>the process). Somewhere around the introduction of System 7.
>
>I still use DiskCopy 4.2 for copying 1.4m disks. It is so prissy that it
>won't complete anything but a perfect copy. For 800k disks, I use Norton
>Utilities' "Floppier" program.
>
>Al Bloom
I have had no trouble copying either 800K or 400K (remember them?) or 1.4M
diskettes. I made *.image files of MFS 400K diskettes that came with a Mac
512Ke and have successfully copied them onto new diskettes with Apple Disk
Copy 4.2. Therefore, I doubt Al's put his finger on the real problem.
Good luck,
Jim Owens
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