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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 8 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 280
Today's Topics:
(?) PB 170 to Color Monitor
2 Button mouse and DOS Card (2 msgs)
7.5.5 update problems
[?] - FreePPP on PB5300cs won't work
[A]: Music Score Editor
[A] Mail converter Netscape->Emailer
[Q] the Alps $500 printer/scanner
Find file under 7.5.5
Generic Finder Icons
Getting two bookmark files in synch
Help with modem init string
Info-Mac Digest V14 #279
Netscape & Fetch
O.T. problems...
Open Transport Problem
Printing Problem
problem with Fractal's Expression and turbo 040 and system 7.1
Replacement Floppy Drive
The choice is getting harder!
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:14:15 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: (?) PB 170 to Color Monitor
I have a 12 Apple monitor that came with an LC II and a PowerBook 170. Can I
get the two of these to work together?
Please reply directly to me via e-mail as I need any positive information as
soon as possible.
TIA
Marvin
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 09:55:31 -0500
From: R Shapiro
Subject: 2 Button mouse and DOS Card
>Apple DOS compatability card in my 6100/60 (486, DX2, 66MHz)...
>I'd like a real 2 button mouse which works in both environments
Any programmable 2 or 3 button mouse should be fine. I like the Logitech
Mouseman -- this is what I use on my Mac+DOS. The Kensington multi-button
mice are fine for this purpose as well. Expect to pay ~ $80, give or take.
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 12:18:22 -0800
From: [email protected] (Randall K Petersen)
Subject: 2 Button mouse and DOS Card
| I wonder if someone out there can help. I recently installed the original
| Apple DOS compatability card in my 6100/60 (486, DX2, 66MHz), it runs
| perfectly (well, if DOS can ever be described as such). The problem is that
| I'd like to be able to use a second mouse button for a game I want to play
| (or even for Windows, if I ever install it). I know the numeric keypad
| emulates the right-hand mouse button, but I'd like a real 2 button mouse
| which works in both environments. I've already tried the MacWarehouse
| version, unfortunately the right button is not recognised by the PC side
| (I'm not surprised, but the folks at MacWarehouse assured me that it
| would). FYI, I'm using a DOS mouse driver which does recognise the right
| mouse button on real DOS systems.
|
| I hope that someone may be able to suggest a solution (not too expensive I
| hope) as I can't be the only person with a DOS/Windows card who wants full
| mouse functionality.
|
| I am truly sorry that the first time I use this list for help I have to
| contaminate it with a question which relates to DOS/Windows
. TIA.
Someone else has probably already mentioned this, but the Kensington
2-button Kensington Mouse and 4-button Thinking Mouse can easily be
configured to have the right mouse button act as an honest-to-gates peecee
right mouse click. I believe this may work for you, although I have not
actually tried it with a DOS card. It does work fine with SoftWindows95. In
my experience, the Kensington mice and trackballs and associated MouseWorks
software are superb.
http://www.kensington.com/
Randall K Petersen, MD
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 00:08:28 +1100
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: 7.5.5 update problems
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #279, Joe M. Luzzi wrote:
>I am trying to update a 7200/90 Macintosh to 7.5.5. I am doing a clean
>(really clean) install.
>These are the steps I have taken:
>
>1.) Boot off 7.5.2 CDROM and run drive setup 1.05 to initialize the hard
>disk and update disk driver.
>2.) Install a clean 7.5.2 System from CDROM.
>3.) Reboot
>4.) Run the 7.5 Update 2.0 to upgrade to 7.5.3.
>5.) Reboot
>6.) Run Disk First Aid and check for errors. No errors.
>7.) Select 7.5.3 only from extensions manager and reboot (shouldn't matter
>since only the operating system is loaded anyway).
>8.) Run the 7.5.5 update.
>
>I am getting an error message in the middle of the install of 7.5.5. The
>installation gets to the point where it says "optimizing the system file" and
>then it stops and says that it cannot copy the system file to my hard disk and
>that I should delete the file and try again.
>
>I am following the installation instructions in the readme file and I cannot
>understand what this error means.
Joe, good for you for having read the docs. so well. And giving such clear
account of what's happening! Ouch! though...
It does sound like a write error is occuring in the middle of that optimize
process - the System file is being stitched back together after resources
have been added or subtracted, and the Installer is involved in lots of
reads and writes to your HD at that point - and meeting what is probably a
medium failure, in the form of a logically munged sector, or a block with
flawed magnetic properties.
But you can fix this: it just means using Drive Setup to format the drive
(low level). It might be worth testing the drive to start with too, just
to confirm what is happening.
I don't use Drive Setup, having FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit and LaCie's
Silverling. But diving into Drive Setup's guide with CanOpener, I noticed:
===
Testing
Over time, a storage medium such as a disk can develop errors. With Drive
Setup, you can test a disk for errors in reading, copying, and saving data.
Errors damage sections ("blocks") of data. Drive Setup informs you if it
finds blocks containing errors. Drive Setup also sets the damaged blocks
aside so they are not used again.
===
"Over time" is optimistic of course - drives start life with bad sectors,
which are mapped out in factory testing. And over any drive's life more
bad blocks develop.
So I'd say from Drive Setup's Functions menu, select Test Disk... and do
the test routine, see what happens and allow remapping of bad blocks if
you're asked.
Then go back to the Functions menu, select Initialization Options..., check
Low Level Format then format the drive. You could think of this as
beginning a very, very clean install:-)
Now I think you'll find the install process goes OK. Good luck!
bill
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:52:48 -0800
From: [email protected] (Brian Smith)
Subject: [?] - FreePPP on PB5300cs won't work
I have a PowerBook 5300cs that I cannot get FreePPP 2.5v2 to work on to
save my life...I have tried repeated installs of both FreePPP and the
system software. Every time I start up the FreePPP application using
"FreePPP setup," I get a message saying that "the FreePPP extension did not
load at startup time."
I check that the FreePPP extension is in the Extensions folder and all is
OK. I have noticed that it does not appear in Extensions Manager, so there
is no way to turn it off there.
Anyone else had this problem? I have tried both System 7.5.3 and 7.5.5
with no success. What about renaming the extension so that it loads
earlier?
Thanks...please direct replies to [email protected]
Brian Smith
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 01:33:18 -0800
From: [email protected] (Chris Schram)
Subject: [A]: Music Score Editor
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, [email protected] (Yasuo & Yoshiko Kumeda) wrote:
>In response to a search for music socore editing programs,
>I received a couple of answers from net friends. Thank
>you very much for your information.
>
>Rob Schilling suggests Musictime by Passport. I tried a
>demo version and found it very attractive, because it
>enables me to use Miracle keyboard without using MIDI.
>
The mention that Musictime worked with the Miracle keyboard really
caught my attention, so I dug into Passport's web site and snagged a
copy. Following what meager instructions came with the files, I
installed the program on my SE/30, followed immediately thereafter by
eight hours of lockups and crashes and the need for a complete System
reinstallation.
Musictime throws a small handful of goodies into various places in the
System folder, and apparently one or more of them dined on my copy of
Suitcase and a few other appetizers.
Please don't interpret this account to be a flame against any of the
aforementioned posters. This is just an excellent example of "Your
Mileage May Vary."
Chris Schram -- [email protected] -- http://www.coos.or.us/~schram
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 09:56:58 -0500
From: R Shapiro
Subject: [A] Mail converter Netscape->Emailer
>Does anybody know of a clever way to import Netscape mail to Claris
>Emailer ?
Assuming you're referring to Emailer 1.1, Eumorpha will do this.
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:21:29 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected] (Mark J. Gandler)
Subject: [Q] the Alps $500 printer/scanner
Hi all.
I've got a pile of related questions.
Alps (the trackpad folks) are pitching a new $500 SCSI printer with or
without a built-in scanner. There's not much on usenet about it, although
I think there has been a similar item in Japan for a while.
Has anybody used the US version of this printer-scanner thingamabob? Alps
claims that it renders true 600x600 color-laser-quality print, and indeed
the samples do look _very_ nice. But is it stable? Are there adequate
drivers around to support it?
More to the point for Mac users, since this printer/scanner is actually a
SCSI device, would it thus be possible for a person to hook up an ISDN TA
(such as the BitSurfr Pro) to a given Mac's printer port, then to place a
GV Teleport 14.4 fax modem between the Mac's modem port & the ISDN TA's
POTS jack? That would, in theory, give uninterrupted incoming fax
capability, plus POTS, plus 64K ISDN. The setup could even be configured
to print incoming faxes automatically, couldn't it? There would no longer
be any need for a manual switch box, right?
It seems to me that such an arrangement would be the structural equivalent
of having three serial ports. Would this configuration work? Does anyone
have experience with such an arrangement?
Any advice on the printer/scanner gizmo itself or on the potential
configuration would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Mark
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:59:56 -0800
From: Mark Allen
Subject: Find file under 7.5.5
I just upgraded my PowerMac 7500 to System 7.5.5. I increased the Finder
memory to 313 K using Finder Heap control panel. Everything seems to be
working okay except the Find command under the File menu. The only Find
operation I seem to get now is the old approach to finding a desired file
one at a time. (I get this situation even when all control panels and
extensions are enabled). I liked better the more recent approach which
displayed a window showing all the files satisfying the search option.
Has anyone else discovered this same situation? Is there a way to revert
back to the more recent approach?
Thanks for your help!
Mark Allen
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 18:39:50 -0800
From: [email protected] (irene bensinger)
Subject: Generic Finder Icons
On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 Erik M Hjelle wrote:
>I'm not sure this is so much a problem as it is an oddity. I have a
>PowerBook 5300/16 running 7.5.5. Instead of the customary Finder and
>System icons, I am shown generic icons for the Finder and System file.
Take a look at the Miscellaneous Mac Matters generic icon page:
http://www.public.usit.net/bgiles/genicon.html
for several possible explanations.
irene bensinger * [email protected]
http://www.halcyon.com/lirene/
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* by art, not by force *
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:21:36 +0100
From: [email protected] (Marci Selsberg)
Subject: Getting two bookmark files in synch
Hi! I'm trying to take my personal Netscape bookmark file and synch it up
with a dowloaded Netscape bookmark file. Is there a program made
specifically for synching up bookmarks?
Thanks,
Marci Selsberg
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:24:06 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: Help with modem init string
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996 00:28:32 -0700, [email protected] (Stephen
> Grady) wrote:
[...snip...]
> I dial up from a PB520c, internal GV PowerPort Mercury Modem, using
> PowerPort setup 2.5.5. Using the init string from my old ISP (they were
> bought out) &F S11=55 M, I was able to connect at 19.2. My new ISP said
> to use the same init string. The best I am able to connect is 14.4.
> When I asked for help, they told me to read my manual.
>
> I did, and came up with the following: N0 S37=13 S11=55 M. It allows me
> to connect at 19.2, however 4 out of 5 times, my connection dies after 3
> to 4 minutes, regardless of what application I am using.
>
> Any suggestions for me to try? The ISP is using USRobotics Sportster
> 28.8k modems (updated bios to remove spiral of death on all modems).
>
> I am using OT1.1, and MacPPP 2.5 (FreePPP 2.5 crashes during
> connection). This is the same config that I used with my old ISP.
>
> I don't really understand all the stuff with init strings. The only
> thing I am sure, is that S11=55 causes faster dialing, M mutes the
> volume, and I believe S37=13 forces a 19.2 connection. In the PowerPort
> setup control panel, I have correction and compression set for V4.2bis.
Try starting with AT&F, then adding &D2 to the string that got you on briefly:
AT &F N0 S37=13 S11=55 M &D2
That should stop the 3-4 minute drop. It's a Mac-specific thing having to
do with an odd way of wiring the hardware-handshaking cable (you DO have an
HH cable, right?!)
If you don't use AT&F first every time, you start with an unknown modem
state, so you could get unpredictable results.
Hope this helps. Cheers!
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 01:25:33 -0800
From: [email protected] (David Snow)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #279
>------------------------------
>Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 17:23:32 -0800
>From: "Joe M. Luzzi"
>Subject: 7.5.5 update problems
>
>Hello All,
>
>I am trying to update a 7200/90 Macintosh to 7.5.5. I am doing a clean
>(really clean) install.
>These are the steps I have taken:
>
>1.) Boot off 7.5.2 CDROM and run drive setup 1.05 to initialize the hard
>disk and update disk driver.
>2.) Install a clean 7.5.2 System from CDROM.
>3.) Reboot
>4.) Run the 7.5 Update 2.0 to upgrade to 7.5.3.
>5.) Reboot
>6.) Run Disk First Aid and check for errors. No errors.
>7.) Select 7.5.3 only from extensions manager and reboot (shouldn't matter
>since only the operating system is loaded anyway).
>8.) Run the 7.5.5 update.
>
>I am getting an error message in the middle of the install of 7.5.5. The
>installation gets to the point where it says "optimizing the system file" and
>then it stops and says that it cannot copy the system file to my hard disk and
>that I should delete the file and try again.
>
>I am following the installation instructions in the readme file and I cannot
>understand what this error means.
Did you get the update online? I have had problems with three separate
installations (System Update 2.0, Quicktime 2.5, OT 1.1.1) from multi-MB
installer downloads. After following install instructions just as closely
as you did, (I've done a squeaky-clean install once or twice in my day), I
still got "hanging" installs, startup crashes and the OT installation even
hosed my connections to all my peripherals!
After my 2nd try downloading the installers, they performed flawlessly. My
feeling is that the files got corrupted somehow during the d/l. Anyone
concur on this? HTH.
David Snow
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
David Snow Design Phone: 619_793_6083
[email protected] Fax: 619_793_1331
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Date: 7 Dec 96 21:54:12 -0500
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: Netscape & Fetch
Dear Digest readers,
Anybody know why Netscape 3.0.1 Gold can sometimes be so much slower
at downloading files via ftp than Fetch 3.0.1?
I find that when I visit sites like cyberdog.apple.com, Netscape will
download as slow as 400 bytes per second, and I notice my modem lights
for receiving are not always on, and have a periodic flicker.
With Fetch, I get a continuous stream of receiving light on my modem,
and
a solid 3k/second connection.
Could somebody get Netscape to talk with Dartmouth, so that Netscape
can be as good at ftp as Fetch? Ftp as slow as Netscape sometimes
creates dropped domain nameservers, and forces me to reboot to use
Fetch on the same file. Meanwhile here goes another reboot!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:44:20 -0700
From: [email protected] (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)
Subject: O.T. problems...
In reply to:
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 18:22:03 +0100
From: balmelli
Subject: Open Transport Problem
I have a problem with OT 1.1.1.
After the phone connection is etablished, all the programs I want to use
have problems connecting (Netscape 3.01 tells me that the host has no
DNS entry).
With the usual TCP/IP control panel I have no problems.
Thank's.
--
Marco Balmelli
[email protected]
-------------------
Marco: I have this problem constantly with my 9500 & O.T. 1.1.1 at work.
Here's what you do: before connecting, open the options window in the
TCP/IP control panel. Toggle either on or off the "load only when needed"
box. Save your options and exit the control panel. You will now be able
to connect and not get that DNS error. No one has yet to give me a real
solution around this, and I have to perform this fiddling every time I want
to start a new connection.
--bj
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:41:20 -0800
From: Darrell Greenwood
Subject: Open Transport Problem
balmelli wrote;
> I have a problem with OT 1.1.1.
> After the phone connection is etablished, all the programs I want to use
> have problems connecting (Netscape 3.01 tells me that the host has no
> DNS entry).
So did I. I was getting a bit hostile at my isp thinking
their DNS servers were down intermittently.
After seeing a couple of postings on comp.sys.mac.comm on
the subject, the last time it happened I trashed the MacTCP
DNR file in the system folder and reloaded the nameservers
in the TCP/IP Control Panel (delete nameservers, save,
renter nameservers). Seemed to fix it.
Cheers,
Darrell
--
Darrell Greenwood, Vancouver, BC [email protected]
My web homepage... http://mindlink.net/darrell_greenwood/
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Date: 07 Dec 96 19:11:56 EST
From: Robert Warner
Subject: Printing Problem
Using the latest versions of ClarisWorks, SimpleText and Tex-Edit, I'm
suddenly (been working fine until today) having trouble with bold and
word spacing in a WP document.
Bold doesn't print as bold (looks bold on the monitor) - and the words
that should have printed bold now print with irregular word spacings (as
compared to the words fore and aft). Again, all looks good on the monitor.
If I remove the bold and go with plain text all is well.
Nothing has changed since the last time I created a WP document when the
problem did not exist.
I rebuilt the DT twice (using Tech Tool 1.1.2).
Also tried turning off all extensions (other than those necessary for the
printer) using Conflict Catcher. Problem continues to exist so apparently
it's not an extensions conflict.
Tried using different fonts. Same problems so it's not a corrupted font.
Documents created previously print fine!
Norton and DFA say all is fine.
Any ideas?
Many thanks!
Bob Warner [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 08:51:29 -0500
From: bono
Subject: problem with Fractal's Expression and turbo 040 and system 7.1
If you or any reader has any ideas as to why Fractal Expression will not
successfully open illustrator files on a computer using system 7.1 I
would like to hear it. Fractal is of no help in this matter. Please
email your comments. Thanks.
Bono
--
bono writes, designs, illustrates, and creates
612 825 5534
main but in need of revision site at http://www.winternet.com/~bono/
sketchbook samples at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1548/
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 96 17:58:30 -0800
From: John Eckman
Subject: Replacement Floppy Drive
The internal superdrive on my Quadra 700 appears to have finally bitten
the dust.
Anyone have a line on the cheapest place to replace it?
Perhaps y'all should reply directly to me, so as not to flood the list
with commercial plugs.
John
John Eckman
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Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 20:56:33 -0400
From: Behme
Subject: The choice is getting harder!
Greetings!
Used to be easy to buy a new Mac, but with all the clones and new
procesors..
I'm ready to hand my trusty LC630 over to the kids, and perhaps,
someone out there could give me some input:
1) I understand that a 604 runs about 30% faster than a 603e even though
the indicated clockspeed may be higher with the 603? Is that correct?
So, would a 604 at 160Mhz be faster than a 603 at 180Mhz?
2) Apart from the speed potential - if that is so - are there any other
benefits to opting for the 604, such as projected changes in the OS (Be
or otherwise?)
3) My main requirement will be:
Graphic work for the web, so files will rarely be more than 1Mb in
their original formats, and then of course reduced dramatically.
I also need to read Dos and Windows files - most commonly
Word Perfect and/or MS Word.
I would like the potential of inputing lower-end 8mm or VHS video for
inclusion into web-sites or downloading to CD-Rom, but that would be a
future requirement only. Just would be nice to have that capacity.
Would I require a video card? If so, what's the one to look for?
With a 17inch monitor at more than the 640x480 resolution I can
currently use - would I need more VRAM than the machines offer out of
the box?
I hope that 32Mb of RAM (with RamDoubler 2.0) would do for this?
4) I like the Performa 6360 price and configuration, and would like to
stay around that price level - $2600can/USD$2000.00 - and there are now
a fair number of options...
well, that's the reason for my post.
Your input is most welcome!
Eckhard Behme
Nova Scotia: A wonderful place to live!
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 8 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 280
Today's Topics:
(?) PB 170 to Color Monitor
2 Button mouse and DOS Card (2 msgs)
7.5.5 update problems
[?] - FreePPP on PB5300cs won't work
[A]: Music Score Editor
[A] Mail converter Netscape->Emailer
[Q] the Alps $500 printer/scanner
Find file under 7.5.5
Generic Finder Icons
Getting two bookmark files in synch
Help with modem init string
Info-Mac Digest V14 #279
Netscape & Fetch
O.T. problems...
Open Transport Problem
Printing Problem
problem with Fractal's Expression and turbo 040 and system 7.1
Replacement Floppy Drive
The choice is getting harder!
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:14:15 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: (?) PB 170 to Color Monitor
I have a 12 Apple monitor that came with an LC II and a PowerBook 170. Can I
get the two of these to work together?
Please reply directly to me via e-mail as I need any positive information as
soon as possible.
TIA
Marvin
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 09:55:31 -0500
From: R Shapiro
Subject: 2 Button mouse and DOS Card
>Apple DOS compatability card in my 6100/60 (486, DX2, 66MHz)...
>I'd like a real 2 button mouse which works in both environments
Any programmable 2 or 3 button mouse should be fine. I like the Logitech
Mouseman -- this is what I use on my Mac+DOS. The Kensington multi-button
mice are fine for this purpose as well. Expect to pay ~ $80, give or take.
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 12:18:22 -0800
From: [email protected] (Randall K Petersen)
Subject: 2 Button mouse and DOS Card
| I wonder if someone out there can help. I recently installed the original
| Apple DOS compatability card in my 6100/60 (486, DX2, 66MHz), it runs
| perfectly (well, if DOS can ever be described as such). The problem is that
| I'd like to be able to use a second mouse button for a game I want to play
| (or even for Windows, if I ever install it). I know the numeric keypad
| emulates the right-hand mouse button, but I'd like a real 2 button mouse
| which works in both environments. I've already tried the MacWarehouse
| version, unfortunately the right button is not recognised by the PC side
| (I'm not surprised, but the folks at MacWarehouse assured me that it
| would). FYI, I'm using a DOS mouse driver which does recognise the right
| mouse button on real DOS systems.
|
| I hope that someone may be able to suggest a solution (not too expensive I
| hope) as I can't be the only person with a DOS/Windows card who wants full
| mouse functionality.
|
| I am truly sorry that the first time I use this list for help I have to
| contaminate it with a question which relates to DOS/Windows
. TIA.Someone else has probably already mentioned this, but the Kensington
2-button Kensington Mouse and 4-button Thinking Mouse can easily be
configured to have the right mouse button act as an honest-to-gates peecee
right mouse click. I believe this may work for you, although I have not
actually tried it with a DOS card. It does work fine with SoftWindows95. In
my experience, the Kensington mice and trackballs and associated MouseWorks
software are superb.
http://www.kensington.com/
Randall K Petersen, MD
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 00:08:28 +1100
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: 7.5.5 update problems
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #279, Joe M. Luzzi wrote:
>I am trying to update a 7200/90 Macintosh to 7.5.5. I am doing a clean
>(really clean) install.
>These are the steps I have taken:
>
>1.) Boot off 7.5.2 CDROM and run drive setup 1.05 to initialize the hard
>disk and update disk driver.
>2.) Install a clean 7.5.2 System from CDROM.
>3.) Reboot
>4.) Run the 7.5 Update 2.0 to upgrade to 7.5.3.
>5.) Reboot
>6.) Run Disk First Aid and check for errors. No errors.
>7.) Select 7.5.3 only from extensions manager and reboot (shouldn't matter
>since only the operating system is loaded anyway).
>8.) Run the 7.5.5 update.
>
>I am getting an error message in the middle of the install of 7.5.5. The
>installation gets to the point where it says "optimizing the system file" and
>then it stops and says that it cannot copy the system file to my hard disk and
>that I should delete the file and try again.
>
>I am following the installation instructions in the readme file and I cannot
>understand what this error means.
Joe, good for you for having read the docs. so well. And giving such clear
account of what's happening! Ouch! though...
It does sound like a write error is occuring in the middle of that optimize
process - the System file is being stitched back together after resources
have been added or subtracted, and the Installer is involved in lots of
reads and writes to your HD at that point - and meeting what is probably a
medium failure, in the form of a logically munged sector, or a block with
flawed magnetic properties.
But you can fix this: it just means using Drive Setup to format the drive
(low level). It might be worth testing the drive to start with too, just
to confirm what is happening.
I don't use Drive Setup, having FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit and LaCie's
Silverling. But diving into Drive Setup's guide with CanOpener, I noticed:
===
Testing
Over time, a storage medium such as a disk can develop errors. With Drive
Setup, you can test a disk for errors in reading, copying, and saving data.
Errors damage sections ("blocks") of data. Drive Setup informs you if it
finds blocks containing errors. Drive Setup also sets the damaged blocks
aside so they are not used again.
===
"Over time" is optimistic of course - drives start life with bad sectors,
which are mapped out in factory testing. And over any drive's life more
bad blocks develop.
So I'd say from Drive Setup's Functions menu, select Test Disk... and do
the test routine, see what happens and allow remapping of bad blocks if
you're asked.
Then go back to the Functions menu, select Initialization Options..., check
Low Level Format then format the drive. You could think of this as
beginning a very, very clean install:-)
Now I think you'll find the install process goes OK. Good luck!
bill
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:52:48 -0800
From: [email protected] (Brian Smith)
Subject: [?] - FreePPP on PB5300cs won't work
I have a PowerBook 5300cs that I cannot get FreePPP 2.5v2 to work on to
save my life...I have tried repeated installs of both FreePPP and the
system software. Every time I start up the FreePPP application using
"FreePPP setup," I get a message saying that "the FreePPP extension did not
load at startup time."
I check that the FreePPP extension is in the Extensions folder and all is
OK. I have noticed that it does not appear in Extensions Manager, so there
is no way to turn it off there.
Anyone else had this problem? I have tried both System 7.5.3 and 7.5.5
with no success. What about renaming the extension so that it loads
earlier?
Thanks...please direct replies to [email protected]
Brian Smith
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 01:33:18 -0800
From: [email protected] (Chris Schram)
Subject: [A]: Music Score Editor
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, [email protected] (Yasuo & Yoshiko Kumeda) wrote:
>In response to a search for music socore editing programs,
>I received a couple of answers from net friends. Thank
>you very much for your information.
>
>Rob Schilling suggests Musictime by Passport. I tried a
>demo version and found it very attractive, because it
>enables me to use Miracle keyboard without using MIDI.
>
The mention that Musictime worked with the Miracle keyboard really
caught my attention, so I dug into Passport's web site and snagged a
copy. Following what meager instructions came with the files, I
installed the program on my SE/30, followed immediately thereafter by
eight hours of lockups and crashes and the need for a complete System
reinstallation.
Musictime throws a small handful of goodies into various places in the
System folder, and apparently one or more of them dined on my copy of
Suitcase and a few other appetizers.
Please don't interpret this account to be a flame against any of the
aforementioned posters. This is just an excellent example of "Your
Mileage May Vary."
Chris Schram -- [email protected] -- http://www.coos.or.us/~schram
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 09:56:58 -0500
From: R Shapiro
Subject: [A] Mail converter Netscape->Emailer
>Does anybody know of a clever way to import Netscape mail to Claris
>Emailer ?
Assuming you're referring to Emailer 1.1, Eumorpha will do this.
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:21:29 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected] (Mark J. Gandler)
Subject: [Q] the Alps $500 printer/scanner
Hi all.
I've got a pile of related questions.
Alps (the trackpad folks) are pitching a new $500 SCSI printer with or
without a built-in scanner. There's not much on usenet about it, although
I think there has been a similar item in Japan for a while.
Has anybody used the US version of this printer-scanner thingamabob? Alps
claims that it renders true 600x600 color-laser-quality print, and indeed
the samples do look _very_ nice. But is it stable? Are there adequate
drivers around to support it?
More to the point for Mac users, since this printer/scanner is actually a
SCSI device, would it thus be possible for a person to hook up an ISDN TA
(such as the BitSurfr Pro) to a given Mac's printer port, then to place a
GV Teleport 14.4 fax modem between the Mac's modem port & the ISDN TA's
POTS jack? That would, in theory, give uninterrupted incoming fax
capability, plus POTS, plus 64K ISDN. The setup could even be configured
to print incoming faxes automatically, couldn't it? There would no longer
be any need for a manual switch box, right?
It seems to me that such an arrangement would be the structural equivalent
of having three serial ports. Would this configuration work? Does anyone
have experience with such an arrangement?
Any advice on the printer/scanner gizmo itself or on the potential
configuration would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Mark
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:59:56 -0800
From: Mark Allen
Subject: Find file under 7.5.5
I just upgraded my PowerMac 7500 to System 7.5.5. I increased the Finder
memory to 313 K using Finder Heap control panel. Everything seems to be
working okay except the Find command under the File menu. The only Find
operation I seem to get now is the old approach to finding a desired file
one at a time. (I get this situation even when all control panels and
extensions are enabled). I liked better the more recent approach which
displayed a window showing all the files satisfying the search option.
Has anyone else discovered this same situation? Is there a way to revert
back to the more recent approach?
Thanks for your help!
Mark Allen
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 18:39:50 -0800
From: [email protected] (irene bensinger)
Subject: Generic Finder Icons
On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 Erik M Hjelle wrote:
>I'm not sure this is so much a problem as it is an oddity. I have a
>PowerBook 5300/16 running 7.5.5. Instead of the customary Finder and
>System icons, I am shown generic icons for the Finder and System file.
Take a look at the Miscellaneous Mac Matters generic icon page:
http://www.public.usit.net/bgiles/genicon.html
for several possible explanations.
irene bensinger * [email protected]
http://www.halcyon.com/lirene/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* by art, not by force *
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:21:36 +0100
From: [email protected] (Marci Selsberg)
Subject: Getting two bookmark files in synch
Hi! I'm trying to take my personal Netscape bookmark file and synch it up
with a dowloaded Netscape bookmark file. Is there a program made
specifically for synching up bookmarks?
Thanks,
Marci Selsberg
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:24:06 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: Help with modem init string
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996 00:28:32 -0700, [email protected] (Stephen
> Grady) wrote:
[...snip...]
> I dial up from a PB520c, internal GV PowerPort Mercury Modem, using
> PowerPort setup 2.5.5. Using the init string from my old ISP (they were
> bought out) &F S11=55 M, I was able to connect at 19.2. My new ISP said
> to use the same init string. The best I am able to connect is 14.4.
> When I asked for help, they told me to read my manual.
>
> I did, and came up with the following: N0 S37=13 S11=55 M. It allows me
> to connect at 19.2, however 4 out of 5 times, my connection dies after 3
> to 4 minutes, regardless of what application I am using.
>
> Any suggestions for me to try? The ISP is using USRobotics Sportster
> 28.8k modems (updated bios to remove spiral of death on all modems).
>
> I am using OT1.1, and MacPPP 2.5 (FreePPP 2.5 crashes during
> connection). This is the same config that I used with my old ISP.
>
> I don't really understand all the stuff with init strings. The only
> thing I am sure, is that S11=55 causes faster dialing, M mutes the
> volume, and I believe S37=13 forces a 19.2 connection. In the PowerPort
> setup control panel, I have correction and compression set for V4.2bis.
Try starting with AT&F, then adding &D2 to the string that got you on briefly:
AT &F N0 S37=13 S11=55 M &D2
That should stop the 3-4 minute drop. It's a Mac-specific thing having to
do with an odd way of wiring the hardware-handshaking cable (you DO have an
HH cable, right?!)
If you don't use AT&F first every time, you start with an unknown modem
state, so you could get unpredictable results.
Hope this helps. Cheers!
--
Gib Henry
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 01:25:33 -0800
From: [email protected] (David Snow)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #279
>------------------------------
>Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 17:23:32 -0800
>From: "Joe M. Luzzi"
>Subject: 7.5.5 update problems
>
>Hello All,
>
>I am trying to update a 7200/90 Macintosh to 7.5.5. I am doing a clean
>(really clean) install.
>These are the steps I have taken:
>
>1.) Boot off 7.5.2 CDROM and run drive setup 1.05 to initialize the hard
>disk and update disk driver.
>2.) Install a clean 7.5.2 System from CDROM.
>3.) Reboot
>4.) Run the 7.5 Update 2.0 to upgrade to 7.5.3.
>5.) Reboot
>6.) Run Disk First Aid and check for errors. No errors.
>7.) Select 7.5.3 only from extensions manager and reboot (shouldn't matter
>since only the operating system is loaded anyway).
>8.) Run the 7.5.5 update.
>
>I am getting an error message in the middle of the install of 7.5.5. The
>installation gets to the point where it says "optimizing the system file" and
>then it stops and says that it cannot copy the system file to my hard disk and
>that I should delete the file and try again.
>
>I am following the installation instructions in the readme file and I cannot
>understand what this error means.
Did you get the update online? I have had problems with three separate
installations (System Update 2.0, Quicktime 2.5, OT 1.1.1) from multi-MB
installer downloads. After following install instructions just as closely
as you did, (I've done a squeaky-clean install once or twice in my day), I
still got "hanging" installs, startup crashes and the OT installation even
hosed my connections to all my peripherals!
After my 2nd try downloading the installers, they performed flawlessly. My
feeling is that the files got corrupted somehow during the d/l. Anyone
concur on this? HTH.
David Snow
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
David Snow Design Phone: 619_793_6083
[email protected] Fax: 619_793_1331
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Date: 7 Dec 96 21:54:12 -0500
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: Netscape & Fetch
Dear Digest readers,
Anybody know why Netscape 3.0.1 Gold can sometimes be so much slower
at downloading files via ftp than Fetch 3.0.1?
I find that when I visit sites like cyberdog.apple.com, Netscape will
download as slow as 400 bytes per second, and I notice my modem lights
for receiving are not always on, and have a periodic flicker.
With Fetch, I get a continuous stream of receiving light on my modem,
and
a solid 3k/second connection.
Could somebody get Netscape to talk with Dartmouth, so that Netscape
can be as good at ftp as Fetch? Ftp as slow as Netscape sometimes
creates dropped domain nameservers, and forces me to reboot to use
Fetch on the same file. Meanwhile here goes another reboot!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:44:20 -0700
From: [email protected] (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)
Subject: O.T. problems...
In reply to:
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 18:22:03 +0100
From: balmelli
Subject: Open Transport Problem
I have a problem with OT 1.1.1.
After the phone connection is etablished, all the programs I want to use
have problems connecting (Netscape 3.01 tells me that the host has no
DNS entry).
With the usual TCP/IP control panel I have no problems.
Thank's.
--
Marco Balmelli
[email protected]
-------------------
Marco: I have this problem constantly with my 9500 & O.T. 1.1.1 at work.
Here's what you do: before connecting, open the options window in the
TCP/IP control panel. Toggle either on or off the "load only when needed"
box. Save your options and exit the control panel. You will now be able
to connect and not get that DNS error. No one has yet to give me a real
solution around this, and I have to perform this fiddling every time I want
to start a new connection.
--bj
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:41:20 -0800
From: Darrell Greenwood
Subject: Open Transport Problem
balmelli wrote;
> I have a problem with OT 1.1.1.
> After the phone connection is etablished, all the programs I want to use
> have problems connecting (Netscape 3.01 tells me that the host has no
> DNS entry).
So did I. I was getting a bit hostile at my isp thinking
their DNS servers were down intermittently.
After seeing a couple of postings on comp.sys.mac.comm on
the subject, the last time it happened I trashed the MacTCP
DNR file in the system folder and reloaded the nameservers
in the TCP/IP Control Panel (delete nameservers, save,
renter nameservers). Seemed to fix it.
Cheers,
Darrell
--
Darrell Greenwood, Vancouver, BC [email protected]
My web homepage... http://mindlink.net/darrell_greenwood/
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Date: 07 Dec 96 19:11:56 EST
From: Robert Warner
Subject: Printing Problem
Using the latest versions of ClarisWorks, SimpleText and Tex-Edit, I'm
suddenly (been working fine until today) having trouble with bold and
word spacing in a WP document.
Bold doesn't print as bold (looks bold on the monitor) - and the words
that should have printed bold now print with irregular word spacings (as
compared to the words fore and aft). Again, all looks good on the monitor.
If I remove the bold and go with plain text all is well.
Nothing has changed since the last time I created a WP document when the
problem did not exist.
I rebuilt the DT twice (using Tech Tool 1.1.2).
Also tried turning off all extensions (other than those necessary for the
printer) using Conflict Catcher. Problem continues to exist so apparently
it's not an extensions conflict.
Tried using different fonts. Same problems so it's not a corrupted font.
Documents created previously print fine!
Norton and DFA say all is fine.
Any ideas?
Many thanks!
Bob Warner [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 08:51:29 -0500
From: bono
Subject: problem with Fractal's Expression and turbo 040 and system 7.1
If you or any reader has any ideas as to why Fractal Expression will not
successfully open illustrator files on a computer using system 7.1 I
would like to hear it. Fractal is of no help in this matter. Please
email your comments. Thanks.
Bono
--
bono writes, designs, illustrates, and creates
612 825 5534
main but in need of revision site at http://www.winternet.com/~bono/
sketchbook samples at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1548/
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 96 17:58:30 -0800
From: John Eckman
Subject: Replacement Floppy Drive
The internal superdrive on my Quadra 700 appears to have finally bitten
the dust.
Anyone have a line on the cheapest place to replace it?
Perhaps y'all should reply directly to me, so as not to flood the list
with commercial plugs.
John
John Eckman
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 20:56:33 -0400
From: Behme
Subject: The choice is getting harder!
Greetings!
Used to be easy to buy a new Mac, but with all the clones and new
procesors..
I'm ready to hand my trusty LC630 over to the kids, and perhaps,
someone out there could give me some input:
1) I understand that a 604 runs about 30% faster than a 603e even though
the indicated clockspeed may be higher with the 603? Is that correct?
So, would a 604 at 160Mhz be faster than a 603 at 180Mhz?
2) Apart from the speed potential - if that is so - are there any other
benefits to opting for the 604, such as projected changes in the OS (Be
or otherwise?)
3) My main requirement will be:
Graphic work for the web, so files will rarely be more than 1Mb in
their original formats, and then of course reduced dramatically.
I also need to read Dos and Windows files - most commonly
Word Perfect and/or MS Word.
I would like the potential of inputing lower-end 8mm or VHS video for
inclusion into web-sites or downloading to CD-Rom, but that would be a
future requirement only. Just would be nice to have that capacity.
Would I require a video card? If so, what's the one to look for?
With a 17inch monitor at more than the 640x480 resolution I can
currently use - would I need more VRAM than the machines offer out of
the box?
I hope that 32Mb of RAM (with RamDoubler 2.0) would do for this?
4) I like the Performa 6360 price and configuration, and would like to
stay around that price level - $2600can/USD$2000.00 - and there are now
a fair number of options...
well, that's the reason for my post.
Your input is most welcome!
Eckhard Behme
Nova Scotia: A wonderful place to live!
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