Info-Mac Digest V14 #285
Posted: December 11th, 1996, 6:00 am
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 11 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 285
Today's Topics:
[*] darksounds
[*] GRUBER desktop patterns, Part I
[*] KidScope for kaleidoscope
[*] NewtHack 1.0
[*] Q-emuLator Lite 1.9.5
[*] Solaris - Kaleidoscope Color Scheme
(Q) Find File extension conflict?
* LCII questions
[A] Funny ASCII mistakes
[A] Not enough memory blues
[A} Looking for trash utility...
[Q] Music Program "Sheet Music" to MIDI?
[Q] Text search engines?
[Q] which removable
Disable NTSC Video on 8500 (Q)
Disallow Cookies?
FWD>>>Deneba - Candida
Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
jerky mouse on bootup (Q)
Looking for trash utility... (2 msgs)
MacWorks Online
Order of Health Check
OT/PPP & Supra 288 don't recognize busy signal
OT/PPP Problem
Output Quicktime Movie To Tape
Q: Preview Windows in Applications
Source of System 7.1 upgrade 3
Spelling Coach Pro, Deneba, and Info-Mac
SyQuest 135 cartridges
Unexplained MacPPP problem
Yet another problem....
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:12 -0800
From: [email protected] (Vanth)
Subject: [*] darksounds
This is just a small collection of system beeps for those loving the
good old days of goth music. The copyright is of the relevant artists.
The sounds are freeware, I would just appreciate to have comments
emailed. Enjoy
--
Vanth
=93...there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio
than are dreamt of in thyne philosophy...=94
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/dark-sounds.hqx; 1096K]
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:40 -0800
From: [email protected] (Robert Gruber)
Subject: [*] GRUBER desktop patterns, Part I
There are eight designs of my first collection desktop patterns, which
you may use and distribute freely.
The only thing I require: If you like them, drop me a few lines on my
e-mail adress. If you do not like them, write me why. If you like some
design very much, write as well.
So have fun and I hope you enjoy your download.
Rob Gruber
Vienna/Austria/Europe
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/txtr/gruber-patterns-part-01.hqx; 450K]
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:28 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ruben B. Heredia)
Subject: [*] KidScope for kaleidoscope
This is a file to be used with Kaleidoscope 1.x
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/kid-scope.hqx; 71K]
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:22 -0800
From: [email protected] (Christopher Dopp)
Subject: [*] NewtHack 1.0
NewtHack is a fantasy role-playing game for Newtons running system version
2.0 or later. You assume the role of an adventurer who descends deep into a
dungeon to rescue a sacred item that has been stolen from your village. You
will have to defeat the many hostile creatures that dwell in the dungeon
and gain experience to successfully complete your quest.
Christopher Dopp - [email protected]
Flashpoint Inc. -
Professional multi-platform software development
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/game/newt-hack-10.hqx; 238K]
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:17 -0800
From: [email protected] (Daniele Terdina)
Subject: [*] Q-emuLator Lite 1.9.5
Q-emuLator Lite is a reduced and freeware version of Q-emuLator, the
Sinclair QL emulator for the Mac OS.
Current Q-emuLator Lite version (November 1996) is 0.9.5, which replaces
all previous releases.
The emulator is actually a virtual QL with up to 4M of RAM and access to
the video (in a Mac OS window), keyboard, Mac's file system, QL floppy
disks, sound, serial ports. Other features include mouse emulation under
the Pointer Environment, built-in ram disk, and compatibility with Sinclair
and Minerva ROMs.
Q-emuLator Lite's minimum requirements are system 6.0.7 and 2M RAM. A 68030
processor or better is recommended.
Although version 0.9.5 is slightly faster than previous versions, the
Q-emuLator Lite's speed is limited to about 30% QL's speed.
To use the emulator you need a copy of the QL ROM which you can get from
the World Wide Web or from a QL with 3.5" floppy disk drive (detailed
instructions in the documentation).
Feel free to include Q-emuLator Lite in the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
Daniele Terdina
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/q-emulator-lite-095.hqx; 537K]
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:34 -0800
From: [email protected] (Quentin Hill)
Subject: [*] Solaris - Kaleidoscope Color Scheme
Hello,
Solaris is a Kaleidoscope Color Scheme. I think it is quite nice, but you
decide. It looks like Eclipse, but when things are clicked, they change to
yellow, and the scroll bar is yellow.
Solaris is freeware.
You can get Kaleidoscope at: http://greg.math.harvard.edu/
Enjoy!
Quentin
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/solaris.hqx; 25K]
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:34:42 -0800
From: [email protected] (Chris Schram)
Subject: (Q) Find File extension conflict?
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Mark Allen wrote:
>I do have the Find File extension in my System Folder: Extensions folder.
>However, my problem is that even though I also have the Find File
>application (which works fine when selected directly), command-f still only
>launches the primitive built-in function.
Two (or three) more things to check...
For me at least, the Find File extension can't launch the Find File
application unless the Find File application is residing in the Apple
Menu Items folder.
The Find File application may have gotten lost in the Desktop database,
so try rebuilding your Desktop.
If all else fails, maybe the Find File application has gotten its
bundle bit messed up. Norton can detect and fix this problem. Then
rebuild the Desktop again.
Good Luck.
Chris Schram -- [email protected] -- http://www.coos.or.us/~schram
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 10:00:45 -0800
From: Christodoulou_Marcos/[email protected]
Subject: * LCII questions
I have an LC II, originally 4/40, upgraded to its maximum 10Mb of
memory. I get by in terms of storage with a zip drive. I also use a
Global Village 14.4 modem and an NEC 3x CD drive. Please help with
wisdom on the following:
It has its original RGB 12" monitor and I want to upgrade it, both for
convenience but mainly because most kids' SW now require min. 13".
I found an NEC Multisynch 14" for $135.
1. Is it worth it?
2. Is it compatible? If yes but with some kind of adapter, then
what and how do I get it, for how much?
Other questions I've had for some time:
* I'm now on System 7.0. Should I upgrade? to what, and how do I
get the upgrade?
* Is there a low cost way to speed it up a bit (I know this is a
long shot)
thank you
Marcos
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:42:21 -0800
From: "David L. Ellis"
Subject: [A] Funny ASCII mistakes
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, "David L. Ellis" wrote:
>I often get some very strange ASCII mistakes that are quite consistent in
>my info-mac digests. For example, a uppercase F will show up as =46 rather
>than F. and so on. In these messages, every F will be "=46" all throughout
>the message, not just once. Why is this?
I would like to thank all those who responded to my question. The answer
seems to lay somewhere in the MIME format issues. Most of the responses
suggested that I was not using a MIME compliant mail reader, but this is
not the case, since I am using Eudora Pro 3.0. The other ideas are that the
listserv is messing up some of the MIME formatting occasionally. This I
have no way of ascertaining, but it sounds plausible. If anyone else has
any ideas, or can confirm or deny the listserv issue, I would appreciate it.
One further item, I use Eudora to receive the info-mac digests from the
listserv at Starnine ([email protected]) and I have it configured to
send the digests with short headers.
David.
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 02:30:00 -0600
From: Snuey
Subject: [A] Not enough memory blues
Quoting: Not enough memory blues
By: Alain Chabot
Dated: 96-12-09 18:50 -0600 (USA Central Time)
: Hi,
:
: as of last Friday, my Mac has decided it does not have enough memory to
: open my HD icon (44 elements), or if it gets this far, it won't open my
: system folder. Or it opens them but when I switch to the Finder, I am told
: there is not enough memory and I must quit some applications and/or close
: windows. Click OK to dismiss the Alert Box and it reappears faster than you
: can reach the window'S close box. That's with 56 Meg of RAM (the real thing
: not VM) and up to 45 Meg left. What gives? Of course, this only started
: after I installed Pointcast Beta 0.9
. But that's another post.
I had this problem the moment I upgraded from System 7.5.1 to 7.5.3 last
spring. Apple-SOS didn't know anything about it and told me to do a
clean-install my system (which I'd already done twice).
I finally discovered that if I disabled the "Calculate Folder Sizes" option
in the Views control panel, then the problem went away. Re-enable it, and
the endlessly repeating alert boxes telling me the Finder was out of memory
promptly returned.
[By the way, I tried increasing the Finder's heap size by 50K (in the SIZE
resource via ResEdit) and that didn't help.]
Since then someone else told me that disabling his Desktop Printing
extensions fixed the problem for him and he considered that solution
preferable to disabling the "Calculate Folder Sizes" option in the Views
control panel.
Since I upgraded to System 7.5.5, I've been able to again show folder sizes
and haven't seen the Finder's out-of-memory alert once.
Hope that gives you some things to try.
James "Snuey" Allen
Madison Wisconsin USA
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:13:43 -0700
From: Kreme
Subject: [A} Looking for trash utility...
On 09/12/96, Snuey wrote:
> System 7.5.3 and later have the ability to move selected items to the
> Trash, but Apple has not enabled this feature. Fortunately, a former Apple
> employee named Nevin Liber has written a tiny extension that activates this
> (and other) hidden features of the Finder. Here are a few sentences from
> the Read Me...
> ------------------------------------
> Finder Extensions Enabler 1.1.0 notes
>
> Finder Extensions Enabler (formerly known as Finder Alias Extensions
> Enabler) is a system extension that enables a number of hidden features to
> the Finder:
>
> 1. If you control drag an item, it will create an alias instead of
> moving/copying that item (System 7.1 Pro or later).
>
> 2. Reveal Original (Command-R) menu item is added to the File menu: if
> you have an alias selected and choose Reveal Original, the folder that
> holds the original item is opened and the original item is selected (System
> 7.5 or later).
>
> 3. Control delete will move the selected item to the trash (System 7.5.3
> or later).
> [..snip..]
There is also a control panel called "Hidden Finder Features" which allows
you to turn on or off each of these features, in addition to turning on or
off the zoom rectagles.
Also, the feature for moving an item to the trash is COMMAND-delete (as it
is in System 7.6 as well).
| [email protected] | 1015 South Gaylord, Denver, CO 80209 #100 |
| WWW URL | |
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:55:55 -0400
From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
Subject: [Q] Music Program "Sheet Music" to MIDI?
Is there any mac program out there (shareware or commercial) that allows
you to "write" sheet music onto the screen and choose instruments, etc. and
then convert the music data into a MIDI file? And also use different tracks
such as have a whole band playing a piece? that would be very nice. please
e-mail me if you have any information.
TIA,
Andrew Murray
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 14:46:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: AG Metcalf
Subject: [Q] Text search engines?
I'm looking for an application which lets you search a large
number of files for a given text string, since I am
interested in licensing the code. Does anyone know of
any programs which do this (freeware/shareware/commercial)
or if this is already available as sample code or in a
library (for C)?
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Alex Metcalf
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:14:41 -0800
From: Aaron Lynch
Subject: [Q] which removable
Just based on my own experience with epson when I had a Color Stylus
printer, I would stear clear of their zip drive. Their driver was very
buggy, and they knew it, but didn't fix it for a couple of yaers! Their
Tech. support was amazingly bad, and they definitly suffer from that "if
it's not a PC then you and your computer suck and we can't help you"
mentality. Check out the customer postings on the Epson web site for
some pretty amazing user comments (if epson hasn't gotten the good sense
to remove them yet:)
I've heard Iomega's tech support ain't none too hot either, but it
couldn't possibly be as bad. At least they seem to want to sell to and
support Macintosh.
-Aaron
--
Hank Webstein: "I'm very attracted to you; the woman, not the Rabbi."
Rabbi Klien:"Well then, speaking as a woman; I'm very flattered, but I'm
not interested."
Hank Webstein:"Yep, that sounds like a woman."
-The
Larry
Sanders
Show,
HBO
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Date: 10 Dec 1996 10:27:01 -0800
From: "Leiner_Dave"
Subject: Disable NTSC Video on 8500 (Q)
Anybody know how to disable the NTSC video output on a PowerMac 8500 =
without physically disconnecting the video and S-video output connectors? =
I'm trying to set up my system so it's easy to switch back and forth so I =
can normally run with more colors on my main monitor. Apple says it can't =
be done; sounds like a challenge for a creative programmer to me! TIA.
--Dave
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 04:37:26 +0000
From: Ian Burt
Subject: Disallow Cookies?
In Info-Mac V114#283, Chaz Larson wrote:
...-Snip-
>>Then someone else offered:
>>I am using Cookie Monster 1.5 -- guess from your favourite info-mac mirror
>>site -- that kills all cookies when you shut down/reboot.
>This will indeed go delete the "MagicCookie" file with every boot.
>However, if like me you don't want to add yet another thing to your startup
>items folder, you may want to try just locking the MagicCookie file.
My two cents sez you wouldn't notice it in your Shutdown Items folder.
Cookie Monster is so quick that it's barely perceptable.
Maccie Xmas y'all,
Ian Burt
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Date: 11 Dec 1996 13:19:44 -0400
From: "Support Server"
Subject: FWD>>>Deneba - Candida
RE>>>FWD>>>Deneba - Candidate for the...
12/11/1996
Florin,
First and foremost I want to apologize to you for the delay in response to
your concerns. It is our goal to answer all messages within a 24 hour period.
Unfortunately, since the release of Canvas 5, the volume of incoming
correspondence has significantly increased to the point that we have been
unable to meet that goal.
I have consulted with our testing department with regards to your earlier
questions. I have include them here for your convenience.
(1) Coach and Word 5.1: It appears Coach requires that the shortcut for the
'Find' command be set to the default setting (cmd-F). However, for personal
reasons I've changed it to cmd-H, and Coach doesn't work with that. How can I
make Coach work with Word 5?
Each application, such as Microsoft Word, reserves certain key combinations
for its own functions. In this particular case, Word reserves the Command H
key combination for find and replace, and will not allow coach to override
this function. You may choose any hot key combination that is not already
reserved by the application.
(2) Coach and Word 5.1: After a spelling check session, Coach leaves the
'Match Whole Word' and 'Match Case' options checked, which is extremely
annoying for my work, which requires those options to be unchecked. How can I
make Coach return those options to their initial values when it completes
spell checking?
Thank you for taking the time to bring this to my attention. We are aware of
this. Unfortunately at this time those stettings remain as a default even
after of the end of the spell check. I will forward your concerns about this
to our Product Manager for further review.
(3) Coach and Nisus 4.1.6: I get an error message when I try to use Coach with
Nisus 4.1.6, telling me the clipboard doesn't contain text. Why? How can I
make Coach work with Nisus 4.1.6?
We have reports of an incompatibility between Coach 4.1 and Nisus 4.1 This has
been reported to our testing department and is currently under investigation.
The job number is P287. I have added your comments to this record for further
review. Unfortunateley, at this time I do not have an estimate as to when this
will be resolved.
We welcome the feedback you were so kind to provide and I certainly appreciate
your interest in Coach.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Best regards,
Carmine Delligatti
Customer Support Manager
Deneba Software
------------------------------------
Date: 96-12-04 21:44:28 EST
Sent on: AOL 3.0 for Mac sub 61
If you're buying a Deneba product (e.g. Canvas, Spelling Coach, etc.) and
you're counting on a bit of tech support from them (which, from what I hear
about Canvas 5, you'll definitely need), think again. They don't have an 800
number for tech support, they don't answer their e-mail (although, if
automated receipts are anything to go by, they do read it -- or perhaps they
just download it directly to the trash), they don't answer messages posted to
their AOL area... I wonder who's in charge of Deneba's tech support, Daffy
Duck?
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:26:19 +0700
From: [email protected] (Victor Soleman)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
Some of the info-mac FAQ is nice to have it printed. However when I print
it the margin was too short on the left so when you punch holes for
binding the words get punched. Does anyone know how to reset the left
margin to avoid this problem.
Thanks for your help.
Mardhany
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:34:26 -0600
From: [email protected] (Paul M. Sheldon)
Subject: jerky mouse on bootup (Q)
Every once in awhile, on booting up my IIsi, I get my mouse cursor
being jerky in its response to my mouse movements. This never happens on my
8500.
Is there anything but a reboot that can cure this?
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:36:13 +1100
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: Looking for trash utility...
Alan Bird (WestCode Software)'s OneClick 1.0.2 will do both of these. Its
strip controls do one click things with the trash, just as the name
implies:-) and you can assign keystrokes to these.
I'm impressed by OneClick. It's the most complete thing since Now
Utilities. It's terribly powerful. It's manual is great. But just on
John's chaos principle of filing here, I don't run it with my main working
system.... I may come to terms with it, but I haven't yet!
>Date: 10 Dec 1996 15:10:28 GMT
>From: [email protected] (John Haywood)
>
>On 09 Dec 96 14:15:53 +0200, Elliot Bennett asked:
>> I was wondering if anyone knows of a utility which will
>> either:
>>
>> a) move selected files/folders to the trash (using the
>> keyboard and not =
>> the mouse)
>> or =
>> b) delete selected files/folders immediately WITHOUT
>> deleting what is =
>> already in the trash (again, without have to use the mouse).
>I use two such utilities:
>Hidden Finder Features -enables Apple's hidden....(you get the gist), one of
>which is to use the Apple-Delete key to move selected items to the Trash
>
>The other is a Control Strip Item called 'Trash It' which deletes any item
>dropped on to it.
>
>I haven't found a single utility to do both yet, but I'm quite happy not to-
>I recall an incident when a friend was over at my house;Iwas at the computer
>and we were talking; he suddenly asked me "what have you just erased-it said
>"deleting 200 odd files" Well-to this day I don't know what those files were,
>but a "chaos-theory" approach to file management is the last thing I need in
>my life just now!!!!
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:35:49 -0500
From: Gilles Pilon
Subject: Looking for trash utility...
>I was wondering if anyone knows of a utility which will either:
>
>a) move selected files/folders to the trash (using the keyboard and not =
>the mouse)
>
>or =
>
>b) delete selected files/folders immediately WITHOUT deleting what is =
>already in the trash (again, without have to use the mouse).
Try a control panel called CanIt! Works well.
You can set it to work with a variety of commands, such as CMD t.
Gilles
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:08:55 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: MacWorks Online
Has anyone ever bought from MacWorks (or Macworks Online)? They have
8500/180s for $3.4K and I'm wondering how they are to deal with.
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 02:08:19 +0000
From: [email protected] (Daniel Frampton)
Subject: Order of Health Check
Is this the best *order* in which to check my mac?:
SAM/Disinfectant
Norton Disk Doctor
Norton Speed Disk (if at all)
Zap Pram
Rebuild Desktop (just once?)
Are there other procedures or software that can help check my mac's health?
Thanks for your help,
Daniel, London.
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 20:19:50 -0800
From:
Subject: OT/PPP & Supra 288 don't recognize busy signal
Hello, all-
I'm hoping someone has run into this problem & solved it already:
I use OT 1.1.1 and OT PPP on my 6100. This occured with both the betas
and final releases (yes, I did follow the correct procedure when
switching from beta to final).
When using PPP to dial my ISP, it does not recognize the busy signal for
what it is; it lets the busy signal beep for about a minute, then hangs
up. I'd really like it if it hung up and redialed immediately. I'm using
the newest flash update on the Supra, btw. No other problems with
anything.
Any ideas? TIA, will summarize any solutions.
-Dan
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:33:41 -0600
From: "W.R. Giacona"
Subject: OT/PPP Problem
I've got an 8500/150 running 7.5.5. and OT 1.1.1. I have been using
FreePPP 2.5v2 for login to my ISP. I decided to try to run OT/PPP and it
ran great. Except for one little problem. I can't print to my Color
StyleWriter. When I deleted OT/PPP and reloaded FreePPP2.5v2 everything
went back to normal and the printer worked fine.
For the record.
USR Sprtster 33.6 in the Modem Port
Printer in the Printer Slot
--
W.R. "Gig" Giacona [email protected]
http://www.infogo.com/~wrg
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:50:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: Output Quicktime Movie To Tape
In im 274 Pham Quang expressed problem he wasn't getting video out to
transfer quicktime movie to tape. In im 275 Dan Castelhano wrote quite
tersely and accurately :
"I believe you either need 4mb or vram, or you have to restart your
computer without the monitor connected, to output a quicktime movie to a
tape. "
Dan Castelhano, you are correct. With insufficient vram you can either
watch it on tv or your monitor but not both on one boot.
I have observed this with my system.
I have insufficient vram, but two computers with a monitor switch
(from black box). Were I to boot my 8500 with monitor switched off 8500 to
my IIsi instead, then and only then I see video out from 8500 on my vcr.
vram is cheap nowadays, last I heard it was about 60 dollars.
Hope this helps!
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:13:27 -0800
From: [email protected] (Robert Sachs)
Subject: Q: Preview Windows in Applications
Dig up your old Mac software.
I'm looking for Mac software, published prior to Oct, 1990 that had the
following user interface design:
You have a first window with any kind of data. You have a second window with
some other data. Ideally you can only display either the first or second
window, but not both at the same time.
Instead of switching from the first window to the second window to see its
data,
the application lets you open a preview window somewhere on the screen (it need
not be inside the first window) that has some part of the data from the second
window. That way you can view the data from the second window without having to
leave the first window.
Here are examples:
A calendar program with a first, month view window, and a second, separate
window for viewing appointments for individual dates. In the month window you
can click on a date box and get a preview window of the appointments for the
date.
If you have something like this, or remember a program like this, let me know.
Another example:
Symantec's MORE II outliner. You have a first window with headings in an
outline. Any heading can have a comment associated with it. You can view the
comment in full size as the second window. OR you can view a preview of the
comment by opening a small comment window right below the heading in the
outline
view.
If you remember or have any programs that you think have these features, please
contact me right away.
Thanks for your efforts, your memories, and your old floppies.
Robert Sachs
415 858 7110
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:55:34 +0000
From: [email protected]
Subject: Source of System 7.1 upgrade 3
I had many replies to my request for help in Volume 14, issue 282, of the
9th December and have replied privately to all of them. What a pleasure it
is to come onto the 'Net' and find everyone so helpful. Many thanks.
John Snoad. 77 LS29 9LD UK. [email protected] Tel & fax: +44
1943 607425.
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:04:17 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Spelling Coach Pro, Deneba, and Info-Mac
Ah, the power of Info-Mac!
I had some problems with Deneba's Spelling Coach Pro, so I tried to
contact their tech support. For about a month my email messages to tech
support and to the customer support supervisor went unanswered. Finally,
I posted a harshly-worded message on Info-Mac (v. 277, 12/05/96), cc'd
to Deneba. And Info-Mac's reputation achieved what I, as a customer of
Deneba, couldn't: the next day I received a message from Deneba tech
support -- and it began with an apology. Apparently, they've been
swamped since the release of Canvas 5.
The apology was nice, but the rest didn't help. My main problem was with
Spelling Coach and MS Word 5. Coach requires that the shortcuts for the
"Find..." and "Replace..." commands in Word be set to the default cmd-F
and cmd-H. But, perverse old man that I am, I like them exactly
viceversa, cmd-F for "Replace..." and cmd-H for "Find...", and Coach Pro
can't stomach that.
Deneba tech support's answer wasn't any help:
Each application, such as Microsoft Word, reserves certain
key combinations for its own functions. In this particular
case, Word reserves the Command H key combination for find
and replace, and will not allow coach to override this
function.
(Guess the writer didn't know much about Word 5, but that's a different
kettle of fish.)
However, after a bit of fiddling around, I found a hack, which might
interest other Spelling Coach Pro users.
I used Jim Bumgardner's HexEdit to open
and changed byte 380 from to , and bytes 562
and 744 from to . And guess what. It worked.
------------------------------
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:15:38 GMT
From: [email protected] (Jane Arnold)
Subject: SyQuest 135 cartridges
You mentioned in v. 14 #279 that the UK office of SyQuest was practically
giving away EZ135 cartridges. How do I contact them? Love the drive but
having trouble finding sources for more 135's. Thank you!
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:37:40 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Unexplained MacPPP problem
Hi,
Please help me to explain the weird behaviour of my MacPPP.
I'm running MacOS 7.5.3 on 8100/110, MacPPP v2.0.1 and MacTCP v2.0.4
I dial up to several PPP servers (work, ISP etc.). Everything used to work
flawlessly until one day when one of my PPP dial-up connections went into
"depression". Once it was my ISP, now it is my work's server.
Description: It dials up fine, goes through all authentications, via
"Establishment" to "Network" messages in the PPP's dialog box. Then the box
disappears and I can see by the modem's lights that PPP session is
established but MacPPP never releases the control, everything is dimmed and
disabled.
I tried all possible modem inits, tests and S register settings, through
MacPPP's terminal window I could see that PPP session was indeed
established, I threw away and reinstalled MacTCP and MacPPP with all their
residual files -- nothing helps. Nothing changed at work neither PPP, nor
modem.
I had that behaviour several times in the past. After long, hopeless
struggle that behaviour was suddenly gone and left no clue of what caused
it.
Can anyone, please help me.
Thank you,
Alex.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:07:17 +0000
From: Scott
Subject: Yet another problem....
First, I wanted to thank everybody for helping me to fix my type 11
crashing problem. It's good to see mac users helping each other out! In
fact, the response was go good I've decided to ask about yet another
problem I've encountered.....
Every once in a while when I start up my Powermac 7200/120, my
keyboard won't work(even though I used it to start it in the first
place). I've checked the connections and what not. The mouse(that's
connected to the keyboard) works just fine. Could this be an extension
conflict or something weird like that? Usually if I reboot a couple of
times the keyboard will work, but it's a real pain because you usually
use the Mac for 10 minutes or so before you need the keyboard for
anything....
Any thoughts would be great!
Thanks!
Scott Lippincott
[email protected]
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 11 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 285
Today's Topics:
[*] darksounds
[*] GRUBER desktop patterns, Part I
[*] KidScope for kaleidoscope
[*] NewtHack 1.0
[*] Q-emuLator Lite 1.9.5
[*] Solaris - Kaleidoscope Color Scheme
(Q) Find File extension conflict?
* LCII questions
[A] Funny ASCII mistakes
[A] Not enough memory blues
[A} Looking for trash utility...
[Q] Music Program "Sheet Music" to MIDI?
[Q] Text search engines?
[Q] which removable
Disable NTSC Video on 8500 (Q)
Disallow Cookies?
FWD>>>Deneba - Candida
Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
jerky mouse on bootup (Q)
Looking for trash utility... (2 msgs)
MacWorks Online
Order of Health Check
OT/PPP & Supra 288 don't recognize busy signal
OT/PPP Problem
Output Quicktime Movie To Tape
Q: Preview Windows in Applications
Source of System 7.1 upgrade 3
Spelling Coach Pro, Deneba, and Info-Mac
SyQuest 135 cartridges
Unexplained MacPPP problem
Yet another problem....
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:12 -0800
From: [email protected] (Vanth)
Subject: [*] darksounds
This is just a small collection of system beeps for those loving the
good old days of goth music. The copyright is of the relevant artists.
The sounds are freeware, I would just appreciate to have comments
emailed. Enjoy
--
Vanth
=93...there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio
than are dreamt of in thyne philosophy...=94
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/dark-sounds.hqx; 1096K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:40 -0800
From: [email protected] (Robert Gruber)
Subject: [*] GRUBER desktop patterns, Part I
There are eight designs of my first collection desktop patterns, which
you may use and distribute freely.
The only thing I require: If you like them, drop me a few lines on my
e-mail adress. If you do not like them, write me why. If you like some
design very much, write as well.
So have fun and I hope you enjoy your download.
Rob Gruber
Vienna/Austria/Europe
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/txtr/gruber-patterns-part-01.hqx; 450K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:28 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ruben B. Heredia)
Subject: [*] KidScope for kaleidoscope
This is a file to be used with Kaleidoscope 1.x
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/kid-scope.hqx; 71K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:22 -0800
From: [email protected] (Christopher Dopp)
Subject: [*] NewtHack 1.0
NewtHack is a fantasy role-playing game for Newtons running system version
2.0 or later. You assume the role of an adventurer who descends deep into a
dungeon to rescue a sacred item that has been stolen from your village. You
will have to defeat the many hostile creatures that dwell in the dungeon
and gain experience to successfully complete your quest.
Christopher Dopp - [email protected]
Flashpoint Inc. -
Professional multi-platform software development
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/game/newt-hack-10.hqx; 238K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:17 -0800
From: [email protected] (Daniele Terdina)
Subject: [*] Q-emuLator Lite 1.9.5
Q-emuLator Lite is a reduced and freeware version of Q-emuLator, the
Sinclair QL emulator for the Mac OS.
Current Q-emuLator Lite version (November 1996) is 0.9.5, which replaces
all previous releases.
The emulator is actually a virtual QL with up to 4M of RAM and access to
the video (in a Mac OS window), keyboard, Mac's file system, QL floppy
disks, sound, serial ports. Other features include mouse emulation under
the Pointer Environment, built-in ram disk, and compatibility with Sinclair
and Minerva ROMs.
Q-emuLator Lite's minimum requirements are system 6.0.7 and 2M RAM. A 68030
processor or better is recommended.
Although version 0.9.5 is slightly faster than previous versions, the
Q-emuLator Lite's speed is limited to about 30% QL's speed.
To use the emulator you need a copy of the QL ROM which you can get from
the World Wide Web or from a QL with 3.5" floppy disk drive (detailed
instructions in the documentation).
Feel free to include Q-emuLator Lite in the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
Daniele Terdina
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/q-emulator-lite-095.hqx; 537K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:46:34 -0800
From: [email protected] (Quentin Hill)
Subject: [*] Solaris - Kaleidoscope Color Scheme
Hello,
Solaris is a Kaleidoscope Color Scheme. I think it is quite nice, but you
decide. It looks like Eclipse, but when things are clicked, they change to
yellow, and the scroll bar is yellow.
Solaris is freeware.
You can get Kaleidoscope at: http://greg.math.harvard.edu/
Enjoy!
Quentin
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/solaris.hqx; 25K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:34:42 -0800
From: [email protected] (Chris Schram)
Subject: (Q) Find File extension conflict?
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Mark Allen wrote:
>I do have the Find File extension in my System Folder: Extensions folder.
>However, my problem is that even though I also have the Find File
>application (which works fine when selected directly), command-f still only
>launches the primitive built-in function.
Two (or three) more things to check...
For me at least, the Find File extension can't launch the Find File
application unless the Find File application is residing in the Apple
Menu Items folder.
The Find File application may have gotten lost in the Desktop database,
so try rebuilding your Desktop.
If all else fails, maybe the Find File application has gotten its
bundle bit messed up. Norton can detect and fix this problem. Then
rebuild the Desktop again.
Good Luck.
Chris Schram -- [email protected] -- http://www.coos.or.us/~schram
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 10:00:45 -0800
From: Christodoulou_Marcos/[email protected]
Subject: * LCII questions
I have an LC II, originally 4/40, upgraded to its maximum 10Mb of
memory. I get by in terms of storage with a zip drive. I also use a
Global Village 14.4 modem and an NEC 3x CD drive. Please help with
wisdom on the following:
It has its original RGB 12" monitor and I want to upgrade it, both for
convenience but mainly because most kids' SW now require min. 13".
I found an NEC Multisynch 14" for $135.
1. Is it worth it?
2. Is it compatible? If yes but with some kind of adapter, then
what and how do I get it, for how much?
Other questions I've had for some time:
* I'm now on System 7.0. Should I upgrade? to what, and how do I
get the upgrade?
* Is there a low cost way to speed it up a bit (I know this is a
long shot)
thank you
Marcos
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:42:21 -0800
From: "David L. Ellis"
Subject: [A] Funny ASCII mistakes
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, "David L. Ellis" wrote:
>I often get some very strange ASCII mistakes that are quite consistent in
>my info-mac digests. For example, a uppercase F will show up as =46 rather
>than F. and so on. In these messages, every F will be "=46" all throughout
>the message, not just once. Why is this?
I would like to thank all those who responded to my question. The answer
seems to lay somewhere in the MIME format issues. Most of the responses
suggested that I was not using a MIME compliant mail reader, but this is
not the case, since I am using Eudora Pro 3.0. The other ideas are that the
listserv is messing up some of the MIME formatting occasionally. This I
have no way of ascertaining, but it sounds plausible. If anyone else has
any ideas, or can confirm or deny the listserv issue, I would appreciate it.
One further item, I use Eudora to receive the info-mac digests from the
listserv at Starnine ([email protected]) and I have it configured to
send the digests with short headers.
David.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 02:30:00 -0600
From: Snuey
Subject: [A] Not enough memory blues
Quoting: Not enough memory blues
By: Alain Chabot
Dated: 96-12-09 18:50 -0600 (USA Central Time)
: Hi,
:
: as of last Friday, my Mac has decided it does not have enough memory to
: open my HD icon (44 elements), or if it gets this far, it won't open my
: system folder. Or it opens them but when I switch to the Finder, I am told
: there is not enough memory and I must quit some applications and/or close
: windows. Click OK to dismiss the Alert Box and it reappears faster than you
: can reach the window'S close box. That's with 56 Meg of RAM (the real thing
: not VM) and up to 45 Meg left. What gives? Of course, this only started
: after I installed Pointcast Beta 0.9
. But that's another post.I had this problem the moment I upgraded from System 7.5.1 to 7.5.3 last
spring. Apple-SOS didn't know anything about it and told me to do a
clean-install my system (which I'd already done twice).
I finally discovered that if I disabled the "Calculate Folder Sizes" option
in the Views control panel, then the problem went away. Re-enable it, and
the endlessly repeating alert boxes telling me the Finder was out of memory
promptly returned.
[By the way, I tried increasing the Finder's heap size by 50K (in the SIZE
resource via ResEdit) and that didn't help.]
Since then someone else told me that disabling his Desktop Printing
extensions fixed the problem for him and he considered that solution
preferable to disabling the "Calculate Folder Sizes" option in the Views
control panel.
Since I upgraded to System 7.5.5, I've been able to again show folder sizes
and haven't seen the Finder's out-of-memory alert once.
Hope that gives you some things to try.
James "Snuey" Allen
Madison Wisconsin USA
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:13:43 -0700
From: Kreme
Subject: [A} Looking for trash utility...
On 09/12/96, Snuey wrote:
> System 7.5.3 and later have the ability to move selected items to the
> Trash, but Apple has not enabled this feature. Fortunately, a former Apple
> employee named Nevin Liber has written a tiny extension that activates this
> (and other) hidden features of the Finder. Here are a few sentences from
> the Read Me...
> ------------------------------------
> Finder Extensions Enabler 1.1.0 notes
>
> Finder Extensions Enabler (formerly known as Finder Alias Extensions
> Enabler) is a system extension that enables a number of hidden features to
> the Finder:
>
> 1. If you control drag an item, it will create an alias instead of
> moving/copying that item (System 7.1 Pro or later).
>
> 2. Reveal Original (Command-R) menu item is added to the File menu: if
> you have an alias selected and choose Reveal Original, the folder that
> holds the original item is opened and the original item is selected (System
> 7.5 or later).
>
> 3. Control delete will move the selected item to the trash (System 7.5.3
> or later).
> [..snip..]
There is also a control panel called "Hidden Finder Features" which allows
you to turn on or off each of these features, in addition to turning on or
off the zoom rectagles.
Also, the feature for moving an item to the trash is COMMAND-delete (as it
is in System 7.6 as well).
| [email protected] | 1015 South Gaylord, Denver, CO 80209 #100 |
| WWW URL | |
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:55:55 -0400
From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
Subject: [Q] Music Program "Sheet Music" to MIDI?
Is there any mac program out there (shareware or commercial) that allows
you to "write" sheet music onto the screen and choose instruments, etc. and
then convert the music data into a MIDI file? And also use different tracks
such as have a whole band playing a piece? that would be very nice. please
e-mail me if you have any information.
TIA,
Andrew Murray
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 14:46:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: AG Metcalf
Subject: [Q] Text search engines?
I'm looking for an application which lets you search a large
number of files for a given text string, since I am
interested in licensing the code. Does anyone know of
any programs which do this (freeware/shareware/commercial)
or if this is already available as sample code or in a
library (for C)?
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Alex Metcalf
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:14:41 -0800
From: Aaron Lynch
Subject: [Q] which removable
Just based on my own experience with epson when I had a Color Stylus
printer, I would stear clear of their zip drive. Their driver was very
buggy, and they knew it, but didn't fix it for a couple of yaers! Their
Tech. support was amazingly bad, and they definitly suffer from that "if
it's not a PC then you and your computer suck and we can't help you"
mentality. Check out the customer postings on the Epson web site for
some pretty amazing user comments (if epson hasn't gotten the good sense
to remove them yet:)
I've heard Iomega's tech support ain't none too hot either, but it
couldn't possibly be as bad. At least they seem to want to sell to and
support Macintosh.
-Aaron
--
Hank Webstein: "I'm very attracted to you; the woman, not the Rabbi."
Rabbi Klien:"Well then, speaking as a woman; I'm very flattered, but I'm
not interested."
Hank Webstein:"Yep, that sounds like a woman."
-The
Larry
Sanders
Show,
HBO
------------------------------
Date: 10 Dec 1996 10:27:01 -0800
From: "Leiner_Dave"
Subject: Disable NTSC Video on 8500 (Q)
Anybody know how to disable the NTSC video output on a PowerMac 8500 =
without physically disconnecting the video and S-video output connectors? =
I'm trying to set up my system so it's easy to switch back and forth so I =
can normally run with more colors on my main monitor. Apple says it can't =
be done; sounds like a challenge for a creative programmer to me! TIA.
--Dave
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 04:37:26 +0000
From: Ian Burt
Subject: Disallow Cookies?
In Info-Mac V114#283, Chaz Larson wrote:
...-Snip-
>>Then someone else offered:
>>I am using Cookie Monster 1.5 -- guess from your favourite info-mac mirror
>>site -- that kills all cookies when you shut down/reboot.
>This will indeed go delete the "MagicCookie" file with every boot.
>However, if like me you don't want to add yet another thing to your startup
>items folder, you may want to try just locking the MagicCookie file.
My two cents sez you wouldn't notice it in your Shutdown Items folder.
Cookie Monster is so quick that it's barely perceptable.
Maccie Xmas y'all,
Ian Burt
------------------------------
Date: 11 Dec 1996 13:19:44 -0400
From: "Support Server"
Subject: FWD>>>Deneba - Candida
RE>>>FWD>>>Deneba - Candidate for the...
12/11/1996
Florin,
First and foremost I want to apologize to you for the delay in response to
your concerns. It is our goal to answer all messages within a 24 hour period.
Unfortunately, since the release of Canvas 5, the volume of incoming
correspondence has significantly increased to the point that we have been
unable to meet that goal.
I have consulted with our testing department with regards to your earlier
questions. I have include them here for your convenience.
(1) Coach and Word 5.1: It appears Coach requires that the shortcut for the
'Find' command be set to the default setting (cmd-F). However, for personal
reasons I've changed it to cmd-H, and Coach doesn't work with that. How can I
make Coach work with Word 5?
Each application, such as Microsoft Word, reserves certain key combinations
for its own functions. In this particular case, Word reserves the Command H
key combination for find and replace, and will not allow coach to override
this function. You may choose any hot key combination that is not already
reserved by the application.
(2) Coach and Word 5.1: After a spelling check session, Coach leaves the
'Match Whole Word' and 'Match Case' options checked, which is extremely
annoying for my work, which requires those options to be unchecked. How can I
make Coach return those options to their initial values when it completes
spell checking?
Thank you for taking the time to bring this to my attention. We are aware of
this. Unfortunately at this time those stettings remain as a default even
after of the end of the spell check. I will forward your concerns about this
to our Product Manager for further review.
(3) Coach and Nisus 4.1.6: I get an error message when I try to use Coach with
Nisus 4.1.6, telling me the clipboard doesn't contain text. Why? How can I
make Coach work with Nisus 4.1.6?
We have reports of an incompatibility between Coach 4.1 and Nisus 4.1 This has
been reported to our testing department and is currently under investigation.
The job number is P287. I have added your comments to this record for further
review. Unfortunateley, at this time I do not have an estimate as to when this
will be resolved.
We welcome the feedback you were so kind to provide and I certainly appreciate
your interest in Coach.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Best regards,
Carmine Delligatti
Customer Support Manager
Deneba Software
------------------------------------
Date: 96-12-04 21:44:28 EST
Sent on: AOL 3.0 for Mac sub 61
If you're buying a Deneba product (e.g. Canvas, Spelling Coach, etc.) and
you're counting on a bit of tech support from them (which, from what I hear
about Canvas 5, you'll definitely need), think again. They don't have an 800
number for tech support, they don't answer their e-mail (although, if
automated receipts are anything to go by, they do read it -- or perhaps they
just download it directly to the trash), they don't answer messages posted to
their AOL area... I wonder who's in charge of Deneba's tech support, Daffy
Duck?
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:26:19 +0700
From: [email protected] (Victor Soleman)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
Some of the info-mac FAQ is nice to have it printed. However when I print
it the margin was too short on the left so when you punch holes for
binding the words get punched. Does anyone know how to reset the left
margin to avoid this problem.
Thanks for your help.
Mardhany
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:34:26 -0600
From: [email protected] (Paul M. Sheldon)
Subject: jerky mouse on bootup (Q)
Every once in awhile, on booting up my IIsi, I get my mouse cursor
being jerky in its response to my mouse movements. This never happens on my
8500.
Is there anything but a reboot that can cure this?
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:36:13 +1100
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: Looking for trash utility...
Alan Bird (WestCode Software)'s OneClick 1.0.2 will do both of these. Its
strip controls do one click things with the trash, just as the name
implies:-) and you can assign keystrokes to these.
I'm impressed by OneClick. It's the most complete thing since Now
Utilities. It's terribly powerful. It's manual is great. But just on
John's chaos principle of filing here, I don't run it with my main working
system.... I may come to terms with it, but I haven't yet!
>Date: 10 Dec 1996 15:10:28 GMT
>From: [email protected] (John Haywood)
>
>On 09 Dec 96 14:15:53 +0200, Elliot Bennett asked:
>> I was wondering if anyone knows of a utility which will
>> either:
>>
>> a) move selected files/folders to the trash (using the
>> keyboard and not =
>> the mouse)
>> or =
>> b) delete selected files/folders immediately WITHOUT
>> deleting what is =
>> already in the trash (again, without have to use the mouse).
>I use two such utilities:
>Hidden Finder Features -enables Apple's hidden....(you get the gist), one of
>which is to use the Apple-Delete key to move selected items to the Trash
>
>The other is a Control Strip Item called 'Trash It' which deletes any item
>dropped on to it.
>
>I haven't found a single utility to do both yet, but I'm quite happy not to-
>I recall an incident when a friend was over at my house;Iwas at the computer
>and we were talking; he suddenly asked me "what have you just erased-it said
>"deleting 200 odd files" Well-to this day I don't know what those files were,
>but a "chaos-theory" approach to file management is the last thing I need in
>my life just now!!!!
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:35:49 -0500
From: Gilles Pilon
Subject: Looking for trash utility...
>I was wondering if anyone knows of a utility which will either:
>
>a) move selected files/folders to the trash (using the keyboard and not =
>the mouse)
>
>or =
>
>b) delete selected files/folders immediately WITHOUT deleting what is =
>already in the trash (again, without have to use the mouse).
Try a control panel called CanIt! Works well.
You can set it to work with a variety of commands, such as CMD t.
Gilles
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:08:55 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: MacWorks Online
Has anyone ever bought from MacWorks (or Macworks Online)? They have
8500/180s for $3.4K and I'm wondering how they are to deal with.
Graeme Forbes
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 02:08:19 +0000
From: [email protected] (Daniel Frampton)
Subject: Order of Health Check
Is this the best *order* in which to check my mac?:
SAM/Disinfectant
Norton Disk Doctor
Norton Speed Disk (if at all)
Zap Pram
Rebuild Desktop (just once?)
Are there other procedures or software that can help check my mac's health?
Thanks for your help,
Daniel, London.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 20:19:50 -0800
From:
Subject: OT/PPP & Supra 288 don't recognize busy signal
Hello, all-
I'm hoping someone has run into this problem & solved it already:
I use OT 1.1.1 and OT PPP on my 6100. This occured with both the betas
and final releases (yes, I did follow the correct procedure when
switching from beta to final).
When using PPP to dial my ISP, it does not recognize the busy signal for
what it is; it lets the busy signal beep for about a minute, then hangs
up. I'd really like it if it hung up and redialed immediately. I'm using
the newest flash update on the Supra, btw. No other problems with
anything.
Any ideas? TIA, will summarize any solutions.
-Dan
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:33:41 -0600
From: "W.R. Giacona"
Subject: OT/PPP Problem
I've got an 8500/150 running 7.5.5. and OT 1.1.1. I have been using
FreePPP 2.5v2 for login to my ISP. I decided to try to run OT/PPP and it
ran great. Except for one little problem. I can't print to my Color
StyleWriter. When I deleted OT/PPP and reloaded FreePPP2.5v2 everything
went back to normal and the printer worked fine.
For the record.
USR Sprtster 33.6 in the Modem Port
Printer in the Printer Slot
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W.R. "Gig" Giacona [email protected]
http://www.infogo.com/~wrg
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:50:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: Output Quicktime Movie To Tape
In im 274 Pham Quang expressed problem he wasn't getting video out to
transfer quicktime movie to tape. In im 275 Dan Castelhano wrote quite
tersely and accurately :
"I believe you either need 4mb or vram, or you have to restart your
computer without the monitor connected, to output a quicktime movie to a
tape. "
Dan Castelhano, you are correct. With insufficient vram you can either
watch it on tv or your monitor but not both on one boot.
I have observed this with my system.
I have insufficient vram, but two computers with a monitor switch
(from black box). Were I to boot my 8500 with monitor switched off 8500 to
my IIsi instead, then and only then I see video out from 8500 on my vcr.
vram is cheap nowadays, last I heard it was about 60 dollars.
Hope this helps!
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:13:27 -0800
From: [email protected] (Robert Sachs)
Subject: Q: Preview Windows in Applications
Dig up your old Mac software.
I'm looking for Mac software, published prior to Oct, 1990 that had the
following user interface design:
You have a first window with any kind of data. You have a second window with
some other data. Ideally you can only display either the first or second
window, but not both at the same time.
Instead of switching from the first window to the second window to see its
data,
the application lets you open a preview window somewhere on the screen (it need
not be inside the first window) that has some part of the data from the second
window. That way you can view the data from the second window without having to
leave the first window.
Here are examples:
A calendar program with a first, month view window, and a second, separate
window for viewing appointments for individual dates. In the month window you
can click on a date box and get a preview window of the appointments for the
date.
If you have something like this, or remember a program like this, let me know.
Another example:
Symantec's MORE II outliner. You have a first window with headings in an
outline. Any heading can have a comment associated with it. You can view the
comment in full size as the second window. OR you can view a preview of the
comment by opening a small comment window right below the heading in the
outline
view.
If you remember or have any programs that you think have these features, please
contact me right away.
Thanks for your efforts, your memories, and your old floppies.
Robert Sachs
415 858 7110
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:55:34 +0000
From: [email protected]
Subject: Source of System 7.1 upgrade 3
I had many replies to my request for help in Volume 14, issue 282, of the
9th December and have replied privately to all of them. What a pleasure it
is to come onto the 'Net' and find everyone so helpful. Many thanks.
John Snoad. 77 LS29 9LD UK. [email protected] Tel & fax: +44
1943 607425.
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:04:17 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Spelling Coach Pro, Deneba, and Info-Mac
Ah, the power of Info-Mac!
I had some problems with Deneba's Spelling Coach Pro, so I tried to
contact their tech support. For about a month my email messages to tech
support and to the customer support supervisor went unanswered. Finally,
I posted a harshly-worded message on Info-Mac (v. 277, 12/05/96), cc'd
to Deneba. And Info-Mac's reputation achieved what I, as a customer of
Deneba, couldn't: the next day I received a message from Deneba tech
support -- and it began with an apology. Apparently, they've been
swamped since the release of Canvas 5.
The apology was nice, but the rest didn't help. My main problem was with
Spelling Coach and MS Word 5. Coach requires that the shortcuts for the
"Find..." and "Replace..." commands in Word be set to the default cmd-F
and cmd-H. But, perverse old man that I am, I like them exactly
viceversa, cmd-F for "Replace..." and cmd-H for "Find...", and Coach Pro
can't stomach that.
Deneba tech support's answer wasn't any help:
Each application, such as Microsoft Word, reserves certain
key combinations for its own functions. In this particular
case, Word reserves the Command H key combination for find
and replace, and will not allow coach to override this
function.
(Guess the writer didn't know much about Word 5, but that's a different
kettle of fish.)
However, after a bit of fiddling around, I found a hack, which might
interest other Spelling Coach Pro users.
I used Jim Bumgardner's HexEdit to open
and changed byte 380 from to , and bytes 562
and 744 from to . And guess what. It worked.
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Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:15:38 GMT
From: [email protected] (Jane Arnold)
Subject: SyQuest 135 cartridges
You mentioned in v. 14 #279 that the UK office of SyQuest was practically
giving away EZ135 cartridges. How do I contact them? Love the drive but
having trouble finding sources for more 135's. Thank you!
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:37:40 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Unexplained MacPPP problem
Hi,
Please help me to explain the weird behaviour of my MacPPP.
I'm running MacOS 7.5.3 on 8100/110, MacPPP v2.0.1 and MacTCP v2.0.4
I dial up to several PPP servers (work, ISP etc.). Everything used to work
flawlessly until one day when one of my PPP dial-up connections went into
"depression". Once it was my ISP, now it is my work's server.
Description: It dials up fine, goes through all authentications, via
"Establishment" to "Network" messages in the PPP's dialog box. Then the box
disappears and I can see by the modem's lights that PPP session is
established but MacPPP never releases the control, everything is dimmed and
disabled.
I tried all possible modem inits, tests and S register settings, through
MacPPP's terminal window I could see that PPP session was indeed
established, I threw away and reinstalled MacTCP and MacPPP with all their
residual files -- nothing helps. Nothing changed at work neither PPP, nor
modem.
I had that behaviour several times in the past. After long, hopeless
struggle that behaviour was suddenly gone and left no clue of what caused
it.
Can anyone, please help me.
Thank you,
Alex.
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:07:17 +0000
From: Scott
Subject: Yet another problem....
First, I wanted to thank everybody for helping me to fix my type 11
crashing problem. It's good to see mac users helping each other out! In
fact, the response was go good I've decided to ask about yet another
problem I've encountered.....
Every once in a while when I start up my Powermac 7200/120, my
keyboard won't work(even though I used it to start it in the first
place). I've checked the connections and what not. The mouse(that's
connected to the keyboard) works just fine. Could this be an extension
conflict or something weird like that? Usually if I reboot a couple of
times the keyboard will work, but it's a real pain because you usually
use the Mac for 10 minutes or so before you need the keyboard for
anything....
Any thoughts would be great!
Thanks!
Scott Lippincott
[email protected]
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