Info-Mac Digest V14 #287
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 14 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 287
Today's Topics:
[*] IBMUG Monthly v1n2/SE, October
[*] IBMUG Monthly v1n3, November
[*] IBMUG Monthly v1n4, December
[*] TattleTech 2.54
[*] TextToFilter 1.0.2
[*] TextureMill 1.1
[*] The Zone Calculator
[*] TidBITS#358/12-Dec-96
[*] TimeTracker 2.9 Italian
[*] Total Restart 1.3 - The next version of the applscript
[*] Trainspotters Puzzle 1.4b --- fitword crossword puzzles
[*] trueColor 1.0.2 for HyperCard 2.1
[A] Funny ASCII mistakes
[Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
[Q] Railroad/Model RR Programs?
[Q] Text search engines?
Disallow Cookies?
dying Quadra 840AV?
Emailer & IM Digests in setext form
Fax/Ans. Machine/Tel software wanted...
Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
Info-Mac Digest V14 #286
LC III and external CD-ROM problem
Manual Color Separation?
Order of Health Check
Processing while menu down?
Serial ports
sys 7.5 installer script
System Enablers (Q)
Upgrade PB = Type 11 errors
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:09 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ryan Lanctot)
Subject: [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n2/SE, October
This file is the electonic magazine of the Interior Business Mac Users
Group, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Started just this
Septemer, IBMUG strives to make computing more productive and fun for our
users. This is a special dealership issue, published in October of 1996.
Ryan.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/ibmug-news-v001-002-se.hqx; 366K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:10 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ryan Lanctot)
Subject: [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n3, November
This file is the electronic magazine of the Interior Business Mac Users
Group, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Started just this
Septemer, IBMUG strives to make computing more productive and fun for our
users. This is the November issue.
Ryan.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/ibmug-news-v001-003.hqx; 605K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:11 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ryan Lanctot)
Subject: [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n4, December
This file is the electronic magazine of the Interior Business Mac Users
Group, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Started just this
Septemer, IBMUG strives to make computing more productive and fun for our
users. This is a the December issue.
Ryan.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/ibmug-news-v001-004.hqx; 651K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:20 -0800
From: [email protected] (John Mancino)
Subject: [*] TattleTech 2.54
TattleTech is a system Profiler, Tech Support tool, and Bug Reporter
application. It replaces TattleTale.
2.54 corrects the following problems:
- Fixed problem with crash on launch on some non-pci PowerMacs running
System 7.5.5
- Fixed problem with identifying system update version when running System
7.5.5
TT reports over 850 info items regarding your system and its hardware
including the following: PCI, PC (PCMCIA) Card; ATA/IDE Devices; Mult
Processors/L2 Cache;PRAM dump; Gestalt dump;General CPU/HW attributes;
Volumes/Drives; Monitors; Nubus/PDS, ADB, SCSI devices (incl
Manufacturer,ROM revisions,etc); Traps ; Application versions; DAs, Fonts,
INITs, CDEVs, etc; Also Mount volumes; Close files, check file integrity.
Uses include learning about your Mac, pre-purchase feature verification,
reporting problems to vendors/product support, beta testing, disk-based
surveys, etc.
REQUIRES:
Mac+ or >
System 7.0 or >
NOTE: May be included on CD-ROM
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/tattle-tech-254.hqx; 545K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:18 -0800
From: [email protected] (Brian Clark)
Subject: [*] TextToFilter 1.0.2
TEXT to Filter is a utility application YA-NewsWatcher 2.1.x, 2.2.x,
2.3.x, and 2.4.x. It converts text files (previously created using the
companion application Filter to TEXT, and presumably edited using a text
editor) into filter files used by YA-NewsWatcher.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/ya-nw-text-to-filter-102.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:13 -0800
From: [email protected] (Rob Gonsalves)
Subject: [*] TextureMill 1.1
TextureMill 1.1
Created by Rob Gonsalves
(C)1996 Deep Devices
All Rights Reserved.
TextureMill is a professional graphic design tool that allows the creation of
seamless textures for web pages, multimedia, 3D rendering, and desktop
patterns. The user can select from 20 unique patterns, change the look with
different surface treatments, colorize the image in real-time with a
multi-color
selector, preview the image as a background in a sample web page, then save the
image in PICT or GIF file format.
TextureMill uses high quality "wrapping" filters and image processing to ensure
perfectly seamless tiles.
The 20 base patterns, with added surface treatments (varying degrees of noise,
blur, gain, emboss, invert, plus the powerful iterate feature) allows the
creation of over 400 unique patterns!
TextureMill is shareware, US$20. When you register TextureMill, you will get
100
base patterns to create over 2,000 unique variations.
Version 1.1 Has a menu pick for default values. Also included is a Register app
to register TextureMill through Kagi.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/texture-mill-11.hqx; 519K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:17 -0800
From: [email protected] (John Weinhofer)
Subject: [*] The Zone Calculator
The Zone Calculator is the ultimate companion to the book "Enter The
Zone" by Barry Sears, PH.D. The Zone Calculator has a very extensive
food database, 5000 foods to be precise. It will also calculate your
percent body fat and your daily protein requirement. Check it out and
enter the Zone.
http://members.aol.com/ironmaan/fitnesslab.html
[Archived as /info-mac/data/zone-calculator.hqx; 838K]
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:08:20 -0800
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#358/12-Dec-96
TidBITS#358/12-Dec-96
TidBITS is known for its insightful articles, timely news, and in-depth
analysis of issues and events in the Macintosh and Internet worlds... but
for this special issue, we throw all that out the window to bring you
holiday gift suggestions from TidBITS readers! Whether you're shopping for
yourself or someone else, there's sure to be something here to tickle the
fancy or change the world of your favorite Macintosh enthusiasts. Enjoy!
Topics:
GiftBITS/12-Dec-96
System Enhancements
Input Devices and Accessories
Interface Enhancements
Communications Devices
Entertainment Software
Business Software and Hardware
Miscellaneous (but cool!) Items and Ideas
And In Conclusion...
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-358.etx; 27K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:16 -0800
From: [email protected] (Bill from Maui Software)
Subject: [*] TimeTracker 2.9 Italian
Italian language version of TimeTracker (TimeTracker is also available in
English and other languages--see our web page for details).
TimeTracker is an easy-to-use $25 time-tracking application for recording
time tasks on the Macintosh. TimeTracker is useful for consultants,
programmers, attorneys, graphic designers, or anyone who bills for time, or
just wants a simple solution for keeping track of time events.
Partial feature list:
* Have multiple time sessions going at the same time
* Windows can be enlarged to fill entire screen or minimized to a very
small size
* Build your own Categories & Projects list
* Sort time entries
* Search time entries
* Separate Expenses field for recording additional time-related expenses
* Export & print time entries
* Extensive editing controls in one easy-to-use window
* Marked and unmark time entries by category and/or project
* Set Time and Money budgets
* Start, Stop, Pause, Resume, and Restart time entries
* Record time in increments of 1, 6, 15, 30 minutes, or 100ths of a minute.
* Supports Stationery Pad
* A complete user's manual
* And much more...
Notes
* TimeTracker requires System 7 or greater.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/time-tracker-29-it.hqx; 212K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:27 -0800
From: [email protected] (Chad Cox)
Subject: [*] Total Restart 1.3 - The next version of the applscript
What this applescript does is close all the windows, clean up the desktop,
eject any disks, CD's, displays a message, then it restarts your mac.
The one thing I included in this version was a cancel button since my last
version didn't have one. I also changed the message a bit.
This is shareware $2.00
(I know you can afford that!)
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/total-restart-13-as.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:14 -0800
From: [email protected] (Tore Merdem)
Subject: [*] Trainspotters Puzzle 1.4b --- fitword crossword puzzles
Trainspotters Puzzle makes fitword crossword puzzles from a chosen source
of words; for example a text file or computer generated 'license plates'.
Registered users get access to complete crossword solutions, and they can
use the program as a tool for making tradional crosswords. You can print
out the puzzles in SimpleText. A fitword puzzle is a type of crossword
where you get all the solution words and it's your task to fit the words
into the grid. The program is 'fat'; it runs native on PowerMacs and also
on 68K Macs. It requires System 7 or later.
New in version 1.4b: If you choose 'Save Crossword' the resulting crossword
will be in new format. Now you can use the Crossword font for the
crossword, and another font and size for the word list. Registered users
can now use Trainspotters Puzzle as a tool for making traditional
crosswords.
You can get more info and see examples of crosswords generated by
Trainspotters Puzzle at:
http://home.sol.no/merdem/trainsp.html
The attached file should replace
'/info-mac/game/word/trainspotters-puzzle-13b.hqx'.
Cheers, Tore M.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/word/trainspotters-puzzle-14b.hqx; 70K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:28 -0800
From: [email protected] (Alain Stalder)
Subject: [*] trueColor 1.0.2 for HyperCard 2.1
trueColor provides an intuitive way to work in color in HyperCard.
You can give buttons and fields colors and color pictures.
Buttons can have color icons.
You can cut, copy and paste color pictures and icons
to and from the clipboard.
You can move fields and buttons in color.
The information about the color properties is
stored within the buttons and fields,
so eg. moving a button with a color icon
requires only to move the button,
not the button first, and then a color overlay.
trueColor now works with HyperCard 2.1 or later.
This was possible, because an external function is used
to collect part properties with the additional result that
painting cards is now about 50-100% faster.
As a side effect, trueColor is no longer slow in HyperCard 2.2
on PowerMacs that have Connectix SpeedDoubler installed.
The screen is now locked before going from card to card.
Color fillings are no longer shown on screens with less
than 16 colors/grays (wrong colors were displayed).
trueColor requires HyperCard 2.1 or later
a 68020 or higher, preferably a PowerPC or a fast 68k Mac.
Some features require 32-bit QuickDraw (included in Sys 7),
QuickTime, or a monitor with at least 16 colors/grays.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/true-color-102-hc.hqx; 91K]
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:23:43 -0800
From: [email protected] (Walter H . Drew)
Subject: [A] Funny ASCII mistakes
You wrote on 20 Nov re Eudora:
>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?
. . . and on 10 Dec:
>The answer seems to lay somewhere in the MIME format issues.
To support your conclusion, let me add that those funny ASCII mistakes
happen to me too. This may be because I use Eudora version 1.3.8.6-JE 13
(JIS) in order to read/send mixed text using both English and Japanese. The
character set which Eudora-JE uses is ISO-2022-JP, not the US-ASCII
character set which Eudora 3 apparently uses. So maybe the question is
whether there is a utility to convert text from ISO-2022-JP and other
character sets to US-ASCII.
Walter
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 07:23:48 +0100
From: Benny Korneliusson
Subject: [Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
Is there any way that one can open an avi. file on a Mac, without having
the Mac-equal of the producing program?
TIA
Benny
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:45:30 -0400
From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
Subject: [Q] Railroad/Model RR Programs?
Hi, my dad loves model railroads (our whole basement is his railroad). and
i would like to get him a good railroad or model railroad program for
Christmas. Are there any good (or any at all) shareware programs out there
that i could download and register for him? They could be games, virtual
model rr, or practically anything to do with railroads. (could be
commercial too but shareware preferred). If you have any information, that
would be great. oh and he already has his own "railroad manager" that
prints out schedules and keeps track of where cars are etc. (that he
programmed himself). so i do not need that.
Andrew Murray
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:38:29 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: [Q] Text search engines?
At 2:46 PM +0000 12/11/96, AG Metcalf wrote:
>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)?
Some programs that do this [or things like this]:
MacPerl
BBEdit
Torquemada
Userland Frontier
Here's a regular-expression HyperCard xfcn which includes source:
Hope this helps.
chazl
12.12.96
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:40:19 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Disallow Cookies?
At 4:37 AM +0000 12/11/96, Ian Burt wrote:
>My two cents sez you wouldn't notice it in your Shutdown Items folder.
>Cookie Monster is so quick that it's barely perceptable.
Good idea. I hadn't thought of that.
chazl
12.12.96
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:37:36 -0600
From: [email protected] (Dana Muller)
Subject: dying Quadra 840AV?
A Quadra 840AV in my department has been acting up lately, with problems
that may or may not be related. Yesterday on startup it displayed the "?"
disk icon, and continued to do so after several restarts. When we left it
alone, it sat there with the disk icon for a 2-3 minutes and then
spontaneously started to boot properly. Later that day, during normal page
layout in Quark, it crashed with the message "Floating point co-processor
not installed." Neither of these problems has recurred since then, but I
was later informed that over the last couple weeks the monitor occassional
blacks out with a snapping sound and then immediately reappears. Nothing
has been changed in the system that might account for this. All normal
procedures were being followed when problems occurred.
Let's see, it has a SuperMac (the people radius bought, I tend to get their
name confused) video card, one of the ones that only works up to system
7.5. I forget exactly which, could dig that out. There is a syquest drive
in the SCSI chain, which is on with a cartridge in at startup, and just the
internal drive that came standard. Because of the video card, it's at
system 7.5. It does know what day it is and maintains the other PRAM
settings. We have run Disk first aid, Norton Utilities, and Tech Tool
(freeware version) with no problems reported.
I did hear that some of these symptoms are similar to those that preceeded
the death of Quantum drives back when they had some known problem. But the
person who told me that didn't think that problem was was present when
these were made, and anyway probably didn't affect AV drives.
Any ideas what to check? We do have an MIS department, but they know
nothing of Macs, so I get to do this. They will, however, happily take the
computer apart if you can suggest something to look for.
Dana Muller Matthew Medical Books
(314) 432-1401 x389 http://www.mattmccoy.com
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 15:53:54 -0500
From: Daniel Ferro Castelhano
Subject: Emailer & IM Digests in setext form
I recently downloaded the free copy of Claris Emailer v1.1v3, and since
then whenever I save an IM digest as a text file, and open it with Easy
View, I do not get the sections divided up. If anyone has any
suggestions as to what may be causing this, and any work arounds, I would
appreciated the help.
Thanks in advance,
Dan Castelhano
[email protected]
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Date: 13 Dec 96 11:46:26 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Fax/Ans. Machine/Tel software wanted...
Subject Fax/Ans. Machine/Tel software wanted... 13.12.=
96
11:03
Anyone heard of the following beast for Macs (I've seen it on the PC here =
in Germany and it's really phenominal!):
I'm looking for software which will use my modem to do the following =
things:
1) Pick up the phone when in rings.
2) If it's a fax, record the fax to disk (maybe even automatically print =
it
out if so configured)
3) If no fax is detected, ring my telephone for "x" rings (user =
configurable)
4) If no one answers by the "x"th ring, start a digital answering machine =
from
within the Mac and record callers' voices for up to "y" seconds (with =
time
and date stamp, of course).
These would be the MINIMUM requirements. Additional features afforded PC =
users here include:
5) After "z" faxes, the software automatically forwards them to a pre-=
assigned =
(and remotely reconfigurable) fax number (in case you're away, out of =
the =
office, or want to have your home faxes forwarded to work).
6) Complete answering machine capabilities like: remote retrieval of =
messages;
different outgoing messages for: time of day and day of week; =
reprogrammable outgoing message; remote changing of security code; etc..=
.
7) Using caller-id one could envision different outgoing messages based on
who was calling.
In this way my mac would be a complete fax/answering machine/telephone =
system. Obviously this requires my telephone to be plugged into my mac =
since I don't really want the phone to ring if the call is a fax.
Anyone ever heard of such s/w or know someone who would care to venture to =
undertake such a challenge?
MUCH TIA (as usual)...
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:44:21 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
At 9:26 PM +0700 12/11/96, Victor Soleman wrote:
>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.
The answer here really depends on what program you're using to print the
FAQ. If you're using some sort of word processing program, the
documentation or help should cover it.
If you're printing from Netscape or some other browser, then you'll
probably want to save the FAQ as text so you can bring it into a word
processing program and manipulate the margins there.
chazl
12.12.96
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 10:05:15 -0600
From: Andy Zavoina
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #286
>Does anyone have a current email address
[email protected]
>or phone number
1-808-263-0055 long distance to Hawaii, good luck getting more than voice
mail
1-808-263-0099 fax
>or web address
don't think they have one
>for the manufacturer of Port Juggler?
If you are interested in PJ, I'd like to sell mine...cheap. But then I'd
need a new doorstop.
Andy Zavoina
Bus
Per
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:26:54 -0500
From: Scott Sarama
Subject: LC III and external CD-ROM problem
I have an LCIII running 7.1 and an external CD-ROM. I can't figure out
how to run the sound from audio discs through my built-in speakers. I
can only listen to audio CD's through headphones.
Sound from multimedia CD's work fine.
Suggestions?
Scott
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 17:35:54 -0600
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: Manual Color Separation?
>Anyone knows of a software that runs on macs that would allow me to specify
>a *manual* color separation. I'll try to explain: XPress and Photoshop are
>only able to make a 4 color separation of an existing image for
>traditionnal 4 color printing (CMYK).
>
>What I am looking for is a program where I could specify, separate this
>image into 6 or 8 or 256 different colors. I know such programs run on SUN
>workstations but I only have a couple of macs...The purpose is separating
>artworks, paintings etc.. for serigrafic printing (tee shirts, etc..) where
>each color is separately specified.
When I do stuff like T-shirts, I create the artwork in Illustrator, which
will output as many plates as you define custom colors. To get an
existing bitmap (e.g., a scan of a photo) into Illustrator as vector
objects, use Streamline, which has a handy Posterize option--you specify
how many colors, and Streamline analyzes the bitmap to produce the
optimum separation. Some manual editing in Illustrator may be required
afterward, to clean up color boundaries and such, but it's still a very
powerful tool. Once in Illustrator, you can set trapping and overprints,
then output your separations.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected]) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page:
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 19:09:10 +0000
From: [email protected] (Daniel Frampton)
Subject: Order of Health Check
Thanks for all your replies.
*
The best spring clean seems to be (in order of implementation):
Trash all those programs and files that you know you will never use.
Think whether you really need those bells and whistles Control Panels,
Extensions, Start-ups, Control Strips and Fonts.
Chuck preferences without parents. Then . . . . .
Virus Scan
Rare to find any problems, but may as well, if only to pat your Mac on the
back for being so impenetrable to infection. Symantic Anti-virus for Mac,
with most recent virus definitions, or the latest Disinfectant will do the
business. Then . . . . .
Apple First Aid
May find things Norton won't. Use from a start-up disk for maximum effect.
Then . . . . .
Norton Disk Doctor
Use from a start-up disk. Then . . . . .
Zap Pram
Extensions off. Using TechTool, and remember to save your present Pram
stuff first.
Also suggested, PRAM Auto-Restore is a control panel (shareware from
Matthias Wuttke) that can automatically restore the PRAM to your trusted
settings on every boot-up. Then . . . . .
Rebuild Desktop
Extensions off. Again using TechTool (or Norton Rebuild), and save first.
If you have Macintosh Easy Open it will do another rebuild on the following
start-up. Then . . . . .
Norton Speed Disk
Best last, as you don't want to optimize a bad desktop file. Will only help
solve unusual problems.
*
Also suggested: AutoFlush, and the prevention utilities which can be found
at http://www.macfixit.com (eg, ResetPwrMgr, MacOSPurge for memory
clean-up, and Stefan's Finder Menus for quitting the finder).
Hope this useful to any fresh users.
Merry MacChristmas,
Daniel, London.
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:39:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Martin Forrester
Subject: Processing while menu down?
Hi all,
Does anybody remember an extenstion that allows the Mac to continue
processing while a menu is held down? I trolled through the IM archives a
while and couldn't find it.
Also, I've always been intrigued by the fact that one application that I
use every day at work, LabVIEW by National Instruments, allows this
wonderful trick. I wonder why more applications can't do this (until it's
a built-in feature of the MacOS in the distant future). It does cause some
funky glitches when,for example, a graph redraws right across the menu, but
I can put up with that.
----------------
Martin Forrester
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:30:19 -0500
From: [email protected] (Lewis Hosier)
Subject: Serial ports
>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?
A simpler way (assuming you already have an analog modem) is to buy an ISDN
TA that has an RS232 port on it, and hook your modem to it, instead of
directly to your Mac. Then all data com is on the same serial port, and the
printer port is unused. Hook the analog modem phone line to the ISDN TA's
POTS jack. Choosing which modem to use is determined by the modem init
string in the software - different for either the fax software or the
internet software. One unit I am aware of that does this is the Adtran
Express XR or XRT. See www.adtran.com for more info.
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:29:02 +0000
From: [email protected] (Charles Cusumano)
Subject: sys 7.5 installer script
I've tried like the devil to get my system to install sys 7.5. I've done
all the "tricks" tried floppies/cd-roms desktop rebuilds/zapped/
initialized HD/run diagnostic sw (no probs) even took out an accelorator
chip(25 to 33 mHz) and Ram chips. I'm exhausted. I've tried all the Mac
mags/sos apple and no one seems to be able to help.
I get this message " The system 7.5 installer script does not recognize
this Macintosh. Please install the original system software"
The original SW is Performa 7.1p6. Ive done that too with little help.
Thank God I backed up my system when I had 7.5 on it. Now all I do is
restore it. Soon it will get corrupted and I'll be out in th cold.
Thanks to all in advance.
[email protected] (charles cusumano)
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 09:12:57 +0100 (MET)
From: [email protected]
Subject: System Enablers (Q)
Hallo,
Who knows an archive of (or with) System Enablers ?
I searched at different locations on Apple sites
but could not find what I am looking for.
If someone could help me to get:
System Enabler 364 and System Enabler 003
Maybe someone can mail them to me (I assume that's
legal) ? Or otherwise give me an address where
I can find them.
Thanks,
Nico Rozendaal, University of Maastricht
(e-mail: [email protected] )
------------------------------
Date: 13 Dec 1996 17:33:44 +0800
From: Arthur Drewitt
Subject: Upgrade PB = Type 11 errors
I have had upgraded my 5300c (which only occasionally crashed in =
Netscape) from 16meg of RAM to 32meg of RAM. Now it crashes every 30 =
minutes or so. Usually they are type 11 errors but sometimes it just =
says system error.
I have rebuilt the desktop, tested the memory with a Memory testing =
utility, tried without extensions etc. Usually just using MS Office, =
Netscape and Quickmail.
Any suggestions or places to look?
Thanks
Arthur Drewitt
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Today's Topics:
[*] IBMUG Monthly v1n2/SE, October
[*] IBMUG Monthly v1n3, November
[*] IBMUG Monthly v1n4, December
[*] TattleTech 2.54
[*] TextToFilter 1.0.2
[*] TextureMill 1.1
[*] The Zone Calculator
[*] TidBITS#358/12-Dec-96
[*] TimeTracker 2.9 Italian
[*] Total Restart 1.3 - The next version of the applscript
[*] Trainspotters Puzzle 1.4b --- fitword crossword puzzles
[*] trueColor 1.0.2 for HyperCard 2.1
[A] Funny ASCII mistakes
[Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
[Q] Railroad/Model RR Programs?
[Q] Text search engines?
Disallow Cookies?
dying Quadra 840AV?
Emailer & IM Digests in setext form
Fax/Ans. Machine/Tel software wanted...
Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
Info-Mac Digest V14 #286
LC III and external CD-ROM problem
Manual Color Separation?
Order of Health Check
Processing while menu down?
Serial ports
sys 7.5 installer script
System Enablers (Q)
Upgrade PB = Type 11 errors
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:09 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ryan Lanctot)
Subject: [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n2/SE, October
This file is the electonic magazine of the Interior Business Mac Users
Group, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Started just this
Septemer, IBMUG strives to make computing more productive and fun for our
users. This is a special dealership issue, published in October of 1996.
Ryan.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/ibmug-news-v001-002-se.hqx; 366K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:10 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ryan Lanctot)
Subject: [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n3, November
This file is the electronic magazine of the Interior Business Mac Users
Group, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Started just this
Septemer, IBMUG strives to make computing more productive and fun for our
users. This is the November issue.
Ryan.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/ibmug-news-v001-003.hqx; 605K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:11 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ryan Lanctot)
Subject: [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n4, December
This file is the electronic magazine of the Interior Business Mac Users
Group, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Started just this
Septemer, IBMUG strives to make computing more productive and fun for our
users. This is a the December issue.
Ryan.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/ibmug-news-v001-004.hqx; 651K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:20 -0800
From: [email protected] (John Mancino)
Subject: [*] TattleTech 2.54
TattleTech is a system Profiler, Tech Support tool, and Bug Reporter
application. It replaces TattleTale.
2.54 corrects the following problems:
- Fixed problem with crash on launch on some non-pci PowerMacs running
System 7.5.5
- Fixed problem with identifying system update version when running System
7.5.5
TT reports over 850 info items regarding your system and its hardware
including the following: PCI, PC (PCMCIA) Card; ATA/IDE Devices; Mult
Processors/L2 Cache;PRAM dump; Gestalt dump;General CPU/HW attributes;
Volumes/Drives; Monitors; Nubus/PDS, ADB, SCSI devices (incl
Manufacturer,ROM revisions,etc); Traps ; Application versions; DAs, Fonts,
INITs, CDEVs, etc; Also Mount volumes; Close files, check file integrity.
Uses include learning about your Mac, pre-purchase feature verification,
reporting problems to vendors/product support, beta testing, disk-based
surveys, etc.
REQUIRES:
Mac+ or >
System 7.0 or >
NOTE: May be included on CD-ROM
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/tattle-tech-254.hqx; 545K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:18 -0800
From: [email protected] (Brian Clark)
Subject: [*] TextToFilter 1.0.2
TEXT to Filter is a utility application YA-NewsWatcher 2.1.x, 2.2.x,
2.3.x, and 2.4.x. It converts text files (previously created using the
companion application Filter to TEXT, and presumably edited using a text
editor) into filter files used by YA-NewsWatcher.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/ya-nw-text-to-filter-102.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:13 -0800
From: [email protected] (Rob Gonsalves)
Subject: [*] TextureMill 1.1
TextureMill 1.1
Created by Rob Gonsalves
(C)1996 Deep Devices
All Rights Reserved.
TextureMill is a professional graphic design tool that allows the creation of
seamless textures for web pages, multimedia, 3D rendering, and desktop
patterns. The user can select from 20 unique patterns, change the look with
different surface treatments, colorize the image in real-time with a
multi-color
selector, preview the image as a background in a sample web page, then save the
image in PICT or GIF file format.
TextureMill uses high quality "wrapping" filters and image processing to ensure
perfectly seamless tiles.
The 20 base patterns, with added surface treatments (varying degrees of noise,
blur, gain, emboss, invert, plus the powerful iterate feature) allows the
creation of over 400 unique patterns!
TextureMill is shareware, US$20. When you register TextureMill, you will get
100
base patterns to create over 2,000 unique variations.
Version 1.1 Has a menu pick for default values. Also included is a Register app
to register TextureMill through Kagi.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/texture-mill-11.hqx; 519K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:17 -0800
From: [email protected] (John Weinhofer)
Subject: [*] The Zone Calculator
The Zone Calculator is the ultimate companion to the book "Enter The
Zone" by Barry Sears, PH.D. The Zone Calculator has a very extensive
food database, 5000 foods to be precise. It will also calculate your
percent body fat and your daily protein requirement. Check it out and
enter the Zone.
http://members.aol.com/ironmaan/fitnesslab.html
[Archived as /info-mac/data/zone-calculator.hqx; 838K]
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:08:20 -0800
From: [email protected] (TidBITS Editors)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#358/12-Dec-96
TidBITS#358/12-Dec-96
TidBITS is known for its insightful articles, timely news, and in-depth
analysis of issues and events in the Macintosh and Internet worlds... but
for this special issue, we throw all that out the window to bring you
holiday gift suggestions from TidBITS readers! Whether you're shopping for
yourself or someone else, there's sure to be something here to tickle the
fancy or change the world of your favorite Macintosh enthusiasts. Enjoy!
Topics:
GiftBITS/12-Dec-96
System Enhancements
Input Devices and Accessories
Interface Enhancements
Communications Devices
Entertainment Software
Business Software and Hardware
Miscellaneous (but cool!) Items and Ideas
And In Conclusion...
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-358.etx; 27K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:16 -0800
From: [email protected] (Bill from Maui Software)
Subject: [*] TimeTracker 2.9 Italian
Italian language version of TimeTracker (TimeTracker is also available in
English and other languages--see our web page for details).
TimeTracker is an easy-to-use $25 time-tracking application for recording
time tasks on the Macintosh. TimeTracker is useful for consultants,
programmers, attorneys, graphic designers, or anyone who bills for time, or
just wants a simple solution for keeping track of time events.
Partial feature list:
* Have multiple time sessions going at the same time
* Windows can be enlarged to fill entire screen or minimized to a very
small size
* Build your own Categories & Projects list
* Sort time entries
* Search time entries
* Separate Expenses field for recording additional time-related expenses
* Export & print time entries
* Extensive editing controls in one easy-to-use window
* Marked and unmark time entries by category and/or project
* Set Time and Money budgets
* Start, Stop, Pause, Resume, and Restart time entries
* Record time in increments of 1, 6, 15, 30 minutes, or 100ths of a minute.
* Supports Stationery Pad
* A complete user's manual
* And much more...
Notes
* TimeTracker requires System 7 or greater.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/time-tracker-29-it.hqx; 212K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:27 -0800
From: [email protected] (Chad Cox)
Subject: [*] Total Restart 1.3 - The next version of the applscript
What this applescript does is close all the windows, clean up the desktop,
eject any disks, CD's, displays a message, then it restarts your mac.
The one thing I included in this version was a cancel button since my last
version didn't have one. I also changed the message a bit.
This is shareware $2.00
(I know you can afford that!)
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/total-restart-13-as.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:14 -0800
From: [email protected] (Tore Merdem)
Subject: [*] Trainspotters Puzzle 1.4b --- fitword crossword puzzles
Trainspotters Puzzle makes fitword crossword puzzles from a chosen source
of words; for example a text file or computer generated 'license plates'.
Registered users get access to complete crossword solutions, and they can
use the program as a tool for making tradional crosswords. You can print
out the puzzles in SimpleText. A fitword puzzle is a type of crossword
where you get all the solution words and it's your task to fit the words
into the grid. The program is 'fat'; it runs native on PowerMacs and also
on 68K Macs. It requires System 7 or later.
New in version 1.4b: If you choose 'Save Crossword' the resulting crossword
will be in new format. Now you can use the Crossword font for the
crossword, and another font and size for the word list. Registered users
can now use Trainspotters Puzzle as a tool for making traditional
crosswords.
You can get more info and see examples of crosswords generated by
Trainspotters Puzzle at:
http://home.sol.no/merdem/trainsp.html
The attached file should replace
'/info-mac/game/word/trainspotters-puzzle-13b.hqx'.
Cheers, Tore M.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/word/trainspotters-puzzle-14b.hqx; 70K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:23:28 -0800
From: [email protected] (Alain Stalder)
Subject: [*] trueColor 1.0.2 for HyperCard 2.1
trueColor provides an intuitive way to work in color in HyperCard.
You can give buttons and fields colors and color pictures.
Buttons can have color icons.
You can cut, copy and paste color pictures and icons
to and from the clipboard.
You can move fields and buttons in color.
The information about the color properties is
stored within the buttons and fields,
so eg. moving a button with a color icon
requires only to move the button,
not the button first, and then a color overlay.
trueColor now works with HyperCard 2.1 or later.
This was possible, because an external function is used
to collect part properties with the additional result that
painting cards is now about 50-100% faster.
As a side effect, trueColor is no longer slow in HyperCard 2.2
on PowerMacs that have Connectix SpeedDoubler installed.
The screen is now locked before going from card to card.
Color fillings are no longer shown on screens with less
than 16 colors/grays (wrong colors were displayed).
trueColor requires HyperCard 2.1 or later
a 68020 or higher, preferably a PowerPC or a fast 68k Mac.
Some features require 32-bit QuickDraw (included in Sys 7),
QuickTime, or a monitor with at least 16 colors/grays.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/true-color-102-hc.hqx; 91K]
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:23:43 -0800
From: [email protected] (Walter H . Drew)
Subject: [A] Funny ASCII mistakes
You wrote on 20 Nov re Eudora:
>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?
. . . and on 10 Dec:
>The answer seems to lay somewhere in the MIME format issues.
To support your conclusion, let me add that those funny ASCII mistakes
happen to me too. This may be because I use Eudora version 1.3.8.6-JE 13
(JIS) in order to read/send mixed text using both English and Japanese. The
character set which Eudora-JE uses is ISO-2022-JP, not the US-ASCII
character set which Eudora 3 apparently uses. So maybe the question is
whether there is a utility to convert text from ISO-2022-JP and other
character sets to US-ASCII.
Walter
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 07:23:48 +0100
From: Benny Korneliusson
Subject: [Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
Is there any way that one can open an avi. file on a Mac, without having
the Mac-equal of the producing program?
TIA
Benny
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:45:30 -0400
From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
Subject: [Q] Railroad/Model RR Programs?
Hi, my dad loves model railroads (our whole basement is his railroad). and
i would like to get him a good railroad or model railroad program for
Christmas. Are there any good (or any at all) shareware programs out there
that i could download and register for him? They could be games, virtual
model rr, or practically anything to do with railroads. (could be
commercial too but shareware preferred). If you have any information, that
would be great. oh and he already has his own "railroad manager" that
prints out schedules and keeps track of where cars are etc. (that he
programmed himself). so i do not need that.
Andrew Murray
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:38:29 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: [Q] Text search engines?
At 2:46 PM +0000 12/11/96, AG Metcalf wrote:
>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)?
Some programs that do this [or things like this]:
MacPerl
BBEdit
Torquemada
Userland Frontier
Here's a regular-expression HyperCard xfcn which includes source:
Hope this helps.
chazl
12.12.96
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:40:19 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Disallow Cookies?
At 4:37 AM +0000 12/11/96, Ian Burt wrote:
>My two cents sez you wouldn't notice it in your Shutdown Items folder.
>Cookie Monster is so quick that it's barely perceptable.
Good idea. I hadn't thought of that.
chazl
12.12.96
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:37:36 -0600
From: [email protected] (Dana Muller)
Subject: dying Quadra 840AV?
A Quadra 840AV in my department has been acting up lately, with problems
that may or may not be related. Yesterday on startup it displayed the "?"
disk icon, and continued to do so after several restarts. When we left it
alone, it sat there with the disk icon for a 2-3 minutes and then
spontaneously started to boot properly. Later that day, during normal page
layout in Quark, it crashed with the message "Floating point co-processor
not installed." Neither of these problems has recurred since then, but I
was later informed that over the last couple weeks the monitor occassional
blacks out with a snapping sound and then immediately reappears. Nothing
has been changed in the system that might account for this. All normal
procedures were being followed when problems occurred.
Let's see, it has a SuperMac (the people radius bought, I tend to get their
name confused) video card, one of the ones that only works up to system
7.5. I forget exactly which, could dig that out. There is a syquest drive
in the SCSI chain, which is on with a cartridge in at startup, and just the
internal drive that came standard. Because of the video card, it's at
system 7.5. It does know what day it is and maintains the other PRAM
settings. We have run Disk first aid, Norton Utilities, and Tech Tool
(freeware version) with no problems reported.
I did hear that some of these symptoms are similar to those that preceeded
the death of Quantum drives back when they had some known problem. But the
person who told me that didn't think that problem was was present when
these were made, and anyway probably didn't affect AV drives.
Any ideas what to check? We do have an MIS department, but they know
nothing of Macs, so I get to do this. They will, however, happily take the
computer apart if you can suggest something to look for.
Dana Muller Matthew Medical Books
(314) 432-1401 x389 http://www.mattmccoy.com
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 15:53:54 -0500
From: Daniel Ferro Castelhano
Subject: Emailer & IM Digests in setext form
I recently downloaded the free copy of Claris Emailer v1.1v3, and since
then whenever I save an IM digest as a text file, and open it with Easy
View, I do not get the sections divided up. If anyone has any
suggestions as to what may be causing this, and any work arounds, I would
appreciated the help.
Thanks in advance,
Dan Castelhano
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: 13 Dec 96 11:46:26 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Fax/Ans. Machine/Tel software wanted...
Subject Fax/Ans. Machine/Tel software wanted... 13.12.=
96
11:03
Anyone heard of the following beast for Macs (I've seen it on the PC here =
in Germany and it's really phenominal!):
I'm looking for software which will use my modem to do the following =
things:
1) Pick up the phone when in rings.
2) If it's a fax, record the fax to disk (maybe even automatically print =
it
out if so configured)
3) If no fax is detected, ring my telephone for "x" rings (user =
configurable)
4) If no one answers by the "x"th ring, start a digital answering machine =
from
within the Mac and record callers' voices for up to "y" seconds (with =
time
and date stamp, of course).
These would be the MINIMUM requirements. Additional features afforded PC =
users here include:
5) After "z" faxes, the software automatically forwards them to a pre-=
assigned =
(and remotely reconfigurable) fax number (in case you're away, out of =
the =
office, or want to have your home faxes forwarded to work).
6) Complete answering machine capabilities like: remote retrieval of =
messages;
different outgoing messages for: time of day and day of week; =
reprogrammable outgoing message; remote changing of security code; etc..=
.
7) Using caller-id one could envision different outgoing messages based on
who was calling.
In this way my mac would be a complete fax/answering machine/telephone =
system. Obviously this requires my telephone to be plugged into my mac =
since I don't really want the phone to ring if the call is a fax.
Anyone ever heard of such s/w or know someone who would care to venture to =
undertake such a challenge?
MUCH TIA (as usual)...
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:44:21 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #283 Printing
At 9:26 PM +0700 12/11/96, Victor Soleman wrote:
>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.
The answer here really depends on what program you're using to print the
FAQ. If you're using some sort of word processing program, the
documentation or help should cover it.
If you're printing from Netscape or some other browser, then you'll
probably want to save the FAQ as text so you can bring it into a word
processing program and manipulate the margins there.
chazl
12.12.96
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 10:05:15 -0600
From: Andy Zavoina
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #286
>Does anyone have a current email address
[email protected]
>or phone number
1-808-263-0055 long distance to Hawaii, good luck getting more than voice
1-808-263-0099 fax
>or web address
don't think they have one
>for the manufacturer of Port Juggler?
If you are interested in PJ, I'd like to sell mine...cheap. But then I'd
need a new doorstop.
Andy Zavoina
Bus
Per
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:26:54 -0500
From: Scott Sarama
Subject: LC III and external CD-ROM problem
I have an LCIII running 7.1 and an external CD-ROM. I can't figure out
how to run the sound from audio discs through my built-in speakers. I
can only listen to audio CD's through headphones.
Sound from multimedia CD's work fine.
Suggestions?
Scott
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 17:35:54 -0600
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: Manual Color Separation?
>Anyone knows of a software that runs on macs that would allow me to specify
>a *manual* color separation. I'll try to explain: XPress and Photoshop are
>only able to make a 4 color separation of an existing image for
>traditionnal 4 color printing (CMYK).
>
>What I am looking for is a program where I could specify, separate this
>image into 6 or 8 or 256 different colors. I know such programs run on SUN
>workstations but I only have a couple of macs...The purpose is separating
>artworks, paintings etc.. for serigrafic printing (tee shirts, etc..) where
>each color is separately specified.
When I do stuff like T-shirts, I create the artwork in Illustrator, which
will output as many plates as you define custom colors. To get an
existing bitmap (e.g., a scan of a photo) into Illustrator as vector
objects, use Streamline, which has a handy Posterize option--you specify
how many colors, and Streamline analyzes the bitmap to produce the
optimum separation. Some manual editing in Illustrator may be required
afterward, to clean up color boundaries and such, but it's still a very
powerful tool. Once in Illustrator, you can set trapping and overprints,
then output your separations.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected]) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page:
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 19:09:10 +0000
From: [email protected] (Daniel Frampton)
Subject: Order of Health Check
Thanks for all your replies.
*
The best spring clean seems to be (in order of implementation):
Trash all those programs and files that you know you will never use.
Think whether you really need those bells and whistles Control Panels,
Extensions, Start-ups, Control Strips and Fonts.
Chuck preferences without parents. Then . . . . .
Virus Scan
Rare to find any problems, but may as well, if only to pat your Mac on the
back for being so impenetrable to infection. Symantic Anti-virus for Mac,
with most recent virus definitions, or the latest Disinfectant will do the
business. Then . . . . .
Apple First Aid
May find things Norton won't. Use from a start-up disk for maximum effect.
Then . . . . .
Norton Disk Doctor
Use from a start-up disk. Then . . . . .
Zap Pram
Extensions off. Using TechTool, and remember to save your present Pram
stuff first.
Also suggested, PRAM Auto-Restore is a control panel (shareware from
Matthias Wuttke) that can automatically restore the PRAM to your trusted
settings on every boot-up. Then . . . . .
Rebuild Desktop
Extensions off. Again using TechTool (or Norton Rebuild), and save first.
If you have Macintosh Easy Open it will do another rebuild on the following
start-up. Then . . . . .
Norton Speed Disk
Best last, as you don't want to optimize a bad desktop file. Will only help
solve unusual problems.
*
Also suggested: AutoFlush, and the prevention utilities which can be found
at http://www.macfixit.com (eg, ResetPwrMgr, MacOSPurge for memory
clean-up, and Stefan's Finder Menus for quitting the finder).
Hope this useful to any fresh users.
Merry MacChristmas,
Daniel, London.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:39:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Martin Forrester
Subject: Processing while menu down?
Hi all,
Does anybody remember an extenstion that allows the Mac to continue
processing while a menu is held down? I trolled through the IM archives a
while and couldn't find it.
Also, I've always been intrigued by the fact that one application that I
use every day at work, LabVIEW by National Instruments, allows this
wonderful trick. I wonder why more applications can't do this (until it's
a built-in feature of the MacOS in the distant future). It does cause some
funky glitches when,for example, a graph redraws right across the menu, but
I can put up with that.
----------------
Martin Forrester
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:30:19 -0500
From: [email protected] (Lewis Hosier)
Subject: Serial ports
>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?
A simpler way (assuming you already have an analog modem) is to buy an ISDN
TA that has an RS232 port on it, and hook your modem to it, instead of
directly to your Mac. Then all data com is on the same serial port, and the
printer port is unused. Hook the analog modem phone line to the ISDN TA's
POTS jack. Choosing which modem to use is determined by the modem init
string in the software - different for either the fax software or the
internet software. One unit I am aware of that does this is the Adtran
Express XR or XRT. See www.adtran.com for more info.
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:29:02 +0000
From: [email protected] (Charles Cusumano)
Subject: sys 7.5 installer script
I've tried like the devil to get my system to install sys 7.5. I've done
all the "tricks" tried floppies/cd-roms desktop rebuilds/zapped/
initialized HD/run diagnostic sw (no probs) even took out an accelorator
chip(25 to 33 mHz) and Ram chips. I'm exhausted. I've tried all the Mac
mags/sos apple and no one seems to be able to help.
I get this message " The system 7.5 installer script does not recognize
this Macintosh. Please install the original system software"
The original SW is Performa 7.1p6. Ive done that too with little help.
Thank God I backed up my system when I had 7.5 on it. Now all I do is
restore it. Soon it will get corrupted and I'll be out in th cold.
Thanks to all in advance.
[email protected] (charles cusumano)------------------------------
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 09:12:57 +0100 (MET)
From: [email protected]
Subject: System Enablers (Q)
Hallo,
Who knows an archive of (or with) System Enablers ?
I searched at different locations on Apple sites
but could not find what I am looking for.
If someone could help me to get:
System Enabler 364 and System Enabler 003
Maybe someone can mail them to me (I assume that's
legal) ? Or otherwise give me an address where
I can find them.
Thanks,
Nico Rozendaal, University of Maastricht
(e-mail: [email protected] )
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Date: 13 Dec 1996 17:33:44 +0800
From: Arthur Drewitt
Subject: Upgrade PB = Type 11 errors
I have had upgraded my 5300c (which only occasionally crashed in =
Netscape) from 16meg of RAM to 32meg of RAM. Now it crashes every 30 =
minutes or so. Usually they are type 11 errors but sometimes it just =
says system error.
I have rebuilt the desktop, tested the memory with a Memory testing =
utility, tried without extensions etc. Usually just using MS Office, =
Netscape and Quickmail.
Any suggestions or places to look?
Thanks
Arthur Drewitt
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